Don Pollacco
University of Warwick
592 Papers
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Don Pollacco is an academic researcher from University of Warwick. The author has contributed to research in topics: Planet & Exoplanet. The author has an hindex of 80, co-authored 542 publications. Previous affiliations of Don Pollacco include Max Planck Society & Coventry Health Care.
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WASP-169, WASP-171, WASP-175 and WASP-182 : three hot Jupiters and one bloated sub-Saturn mass planet discovered by WASP-south
Louise D. Nielsen,François Bouchy,Oliver Turner,David R. Anderson,Khalid Barkaoui,Khalid Barkaoui,Zouhair Benkhaldoun,Artem Burdanov,A. Collier Cameron,Laetitia Delrez,Michaël Gillon,Elsa Ducrot,Coel Hellier,Emmanuel Jehin,Monika Lendl,Monika Lendl,Pierre F. L. Maxted,Francesco Pepe,Don Pollacco,Francisco J. Pozuelos,D. Queloz,Damien Ségransan,Barry Smalley,Amaury H. M. J. Triaud,Stéphane Udry,Richard G. West +25 more
TL;DR: In this article, the radial velocity measurements from CORALIE and HARPS as well as follow-up photometry from EulerCam, TRAPPIST-North and -South and SPECULOOS were used to discover four new giant planets from Wasp, three hot Jupiters and one bloated sub-Saturn mass planet.
Abell 41: shaping of a planetary nebula by a binary central star
David Jones,M. Lloyd,Miguel Santander-García,Miguel Santander-García,José Alberto López,John Meaburn,D. L. Mitchell,Tim O'Brien,Don Pollacco,M. M. Rubio-Díez,Neil Vaytet +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed spatiokinematical analysis and modelling of the planetary nebula Abell 41 is presented, which is known to contain the well-studied close-binary system MT Ser.
CHEOPS: A transit photometry mission for ESA's small mission programme
C. Broeg,C. Broeg,Andrea Fortier,Andrea Fortier,David Ehrenreich,Yann Alibert,Yann Alibert,Wolfgang Baumjohann,Willy Benz,Willy Benz,Magali Deleuil,Michaël Gillon,Anton B. Ivanov,René Liseau,Michael Meyer,G. Oloffson,Isabella Pagano,Giampaolo Piotto,Don Pollacco,Didier Queloz,Roberto Ragazzoni,E. Renotte,M. Steller,Nicolas Thomas +23 more
- 01 Apr 2013
TL;DR: The first ESA S-class mission CHEOPS (CHaracterizing ExoPlanet Satellite) will fill this gap by performing ultra-high precision photometric monitoring of selected bright target stars almost anywhere on the sky with sufficient precision to detect Earth sized transits as mentioned in this paper.
WASP-35b, WASP-48b, AND HAT-P-30b/WASP-51b: TWO NEW PLANETS AND AN INDEPENDENT DISCOVERY OF A HAT PLANET
B. Enoch,David R. Anderson,S. C. C. Barros,D. J. A. Brown,A. Collier Cameron,Francesca Faedi,Michaël Gillon,G. Hébrard,G. Hébrard,T. A. Lister,Didier Queloz,Alexandre Santerne,Barry Smalley,R. A. Street,Amaury H. M. J. Triaud,Richard G. West,F. Bouchy,F. Bouchy,Joao Bento,Oliver Butters,Luca Fossati,Carole A. Haswell,Coel Hellier,S. Holmes,E. Jehen,Monika Lendl,Pierre F. L. Maxted,James McCormac,G. R. M. Miller,V. Moulds,C. Moutou,Andrew Norton,N. R. Parley,Francesco Pepe,Don Pollacco,Damien Ségransan,E. K. Simpson,I. Skillen,Alexis M. S. Smith,Stéphane Udry,Peter J. Wheatley +40 more
TL;DR: The detection of WASP-35b, a planet transiting a metal-poor ([Fe/H] =?0.15) star in the Southern hemisphere, was reported in this article.
SuperWASP observations of the 2007 outburst of Comet 17P/Holmes
Henry H. Hsieh,Alan Fitzsimmons,Yogesh C. Joshi,Yogesh C. Joshi,Damian J. Christian,Damian J. Christian,Don Pollacco +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, wide-field imaging of the 2007 outburst of Comet 17P/Holmes obtained serendipitously by SuperWASP-North on 17 nights over a 42-night period beginning on the night (2007 October 22-23) immediately prior to the outburst was presented.