# Updated parameters for the transiting exoplanet WASP-3b using RISE, a new fast camera for the Liverpool Telescope

@article{Gibson2008UpdatedPF,
title={Updated parameters for the transiting exoplanet WASP-3b using RISE, a new fast camera for the Liverpool Telescope},
author={Neale P. Gibson and Don Pollacco and Elaine Simpson and Yogesh C. Joshi and Ian Todd and Chris R. Benn and Damian J. Christian and M. Hrudkov'a and Francis P. Keenan and John Meaburn and Ian Skillen and I. A. Steele Queen's University Belfast and Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes and Charles University in Prague and University of Manchester and Liverpool John Moores University},
journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics},
year={2008},
volume={492},
pages={603-607}
}
• Published 20 October 2008
• Physics, Geology
• Astronomy and Astrophysics
Some of the first results are reported from RISE – a new fast camera mounted on the Liverpool Telescope primarily designed to obtain high time-resolution light curves of transiting extrasolar planets for the purpose of transit timing. A full and partial transit of WASP-3 are presented, and a Markov-Chain Monte Carlo analysis is used to update the parameters from the discovery paper. This results in a planetary radius of $1.29^{\rm +0.05}_{-0.12}$ RJ and therefore a density of \$0.82^{+0.14}_{-0…

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