WET Announcements

• XCOV 25 , held in May 2006, was the first WET run sponsored by the Delaware Asteroseismic Research Center and Mt.Cuba Observatory. To view the results of this run, go to XCOV 25 Website. The paper is now accepted. Check out our publications list below.

• The 2008 campaign on G29-38 is finished. Gemini obtained time-resolved spectroscopy, and ground based telescopes obtained extensive optical observations. To see the observations, go to 2008 G29-38. Contact Susan Thompson for the status of this campaign.
• XCOV27 is starting in 2 weeks. The website has just been posted at XCOV27 page for details. We have lots of new features, including an XCOV27 Google Group. Please join the group and participate in the discussions during XCOV27:)
• The November 2007 campaign on G38-29 is complete. We obtained over 225 hours of data. This campaign began as an investigation of G38-29 as a possible target for light curve fitting, and grew into nearly a full fledged WET run. Here in Delaware, we jokingly call it XCOV25.5. To see the observations, go to November 2007 G38-29 Website.

• We are always looking for interesting targets. There is no formal application process. If you have an interesting target that you think needs WET, please send the info (the target name and a couple of paragraphs concerning the scientific goals) to Dr.Judi Provencal or anyone on the advisory board, or go to Target Proposal.

• XCOV26 was held in April 2008. This data is still under analysis. To see the data, visit XCOV26

Recent WET Publications

• Provencal, J.L. et al. "2006 Whole Earth Telescope Observations of GD358: A New Look at the Prototype DBV"ApJ, 693, 564

• Sullivan, D. J. et al. "Whole Earth Telescope Observations of the Hot Helium Atmosphere Pulsating White Dwarf EC20058-5234" MNRAS, 387, 137

• Silvotti, R. et al. "A giant planet orbiting the `extreme horizontal branch' star V391 Pegasi", Nature, 449, Issue 1759, 189

• Vuckovic, M. et al. "Whole Earth Telescope Observations of the Pulsating Subdwarf B Star PG 0014+067", ApJ, 646, 1230

• N. Dolez, et al. (the WET collaboration), "Whole Earth telescope observations of the ZZ Ceti star HL Tau 76", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 446, 237 (2006).

• D. W. Kurtz et al. (the WET collaboration), "Pushing the ground-based limit: 14-umag photometric precision with the definitive Whole Earth Telescope asteroseismic data set for the rapidly oscillating Ap star HR1217", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 358, 651 (2005).

   

• Wood, M.A. et al. (the WET collaboration), "DQ Herculis in Profile: Whole Earth Telescope observations and smoothed particle hydronamics simulations of an edge-on cataclysmic variable system", Astrophysical Journal, 634, 570 (2005).

   

• A. Kanaan, A. Nitta et al. (the WET collaboration), Whole Earth Telescope observations of BPM 37093: A seismological test of crystallization theory in white dwarfs", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 432, 219 (2005).

   

• S. D. Kawaler, E. M. Potter, M. Vuckovic et al. (the WET collaboration), "Whole Earth Telescope observations of the pulsating hot white dwarf PG 1707+427", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 428, 969 (2004).

   

• Castanheira, B. G., Kepler, S. O., Moskalik, P. et. al. (the WET collaboration), i "Observations of the Pulsating White Dwarf G 185-32", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 413, 623 (2004)

   

• M.D. Reed, S.D. Kawaler, et al. (the WET collaboration), "The long term pulsational stability of the pulsating sdB star Feige 48", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 348, 1164. (2004).

   

• D. Kilkenny, M.D. Reed, D. O'Donoghue, S.D. Kawaler et al. (the WET collaboration), "A Whole Earth Telescope campaign on the pulsating subdwarf B binary system PG 1336-018 (NY Vir)", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 345, 834 (2003).