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 results are now published. Check out our publications list below.

• The results from the 2008 campaign on G29-38 are now published. Gemini obtained time-resolved spectroscopy, and ground based telescopes obtained extensive optical observations. The data show some interesting results concerning the distribution of calcium on the surface of G29-38. Check out the publication listed below.

• XCOV27 is now under analysis. Information on the data set, including light curves and FTs, is given at XCOV27. Check out the XCOV27 Google Group for pictures from participating observatories.

• XCOV28 is now under analysis. Information on the data set, including light curves and FTs, is given at XCOV28.

• XCOV29 is coming up in April and May 2013. Information on the run, including telescopes and targets, can be found at XCOV29.

• DARC Home Page is at DARC.

• 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.

Recent WET Publications

• Dalessio, J. et al."Periodic Variations in the O-C Diagrams of 5 Pulsation Frequencies of the DB White Dwarf EC20058-5234"

• Provencal, J. et al."Whole Earth Telescope Observations of EC14012-1446" ApJ, 751,91

• Thompson, S. et al. "Pulsational Mapping of Calcium across the Surface of a White Dwarf" ApJ, 714, 296

• Provencal, J.L. et al. "Preliminary XCOV27 Results for EC14012-1446" Journal of Physics, Conf Series 172, 012061

• 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).