SuperWASP variable stars

The resultant data set currently contains >1 million classifications corresponding to >500000 object-period combinations, provided by citizen-scientist volunteers.

Volunteer-classified light curves have ~89 per cent accuracy for detached and semidetached eclipsing binaries, but only ~9 per cent accuracy for rotationally modulated variables, based on known objects. We demonstrate that this Zooniverse project will be valuable for both population studies of individual variable types and the identification of stellar variables for follow-up. We present preliminary findings on various unique and extreme variables in this analysis, including long-period contact binaries and binaries near the short-period cut-off, and we identify 301 previously unknown binaries and pulsators.