Search for Planets Around Detached Eclipsing
Systems
(SPADES)
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SPADES contact: Simon O'Toole
| Phone | : | +61 (0)2 9372 4856 |
| Email | : | otoole at aao.gov.au |
| Website | : | SPADES
via VSS
| | Mail address | : | PO Box 296 |
| | Epping NSW 1710 |
| | Australia |
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About the SPADES project
The Search for Planets Around Detached Eclipsing Systems or SPADES is
a collaboration between amateur and professional astronomers that uses
small telescopes to look for planets orbiting detached eclipsing binary
systems (i.e. there is no mass transfer between the two stars). The
main goal of the project is to monitor systems containing two Main
Sequence stars similar to our Sun, and to do this for at least five
years.
A detailed description of the SPADES project can now be found at the
official
website, hosted
by Variable Stars
South. Here you can find observing requirements and the target
list, and get involved in our discussion forum. We encourage
everyone to get involved!
SPADES people
The SPADES project is lead
by Simon O'Toole
(Australian Astronomical
Observatory) and Tom Richards (Variable Stars South), and aims to
involve both amateur astronomers and undergraduate students from
around the world.
SPADES Library
LTTE Third Body Candidates
Timing
Simulations
Eclipsing Binary Parameters
Planet Imaging
Presentations
A presentation given
by Simon O'Toole
at NACAA on April 3, 2010 can be
found here (PPT 2007 format). This
is what got the ball rolling!
A presentation which briefly discussed SPADES was given by Simon at
the Astronomical Society of Australia meeting held in Hobart, July 4-9,
2010. It can be found here (PPT XML
format).
Some related links
Atlas of O-C
Diagrams of Eclipsing Binary Stars (Mt Suhora, Poland)
The
B.R.N.O. O-C gateway (Brno, Czech Republic)
This page is constantly evolving, but has low enough mass that it
won't explode.