Extrasolar Planets Astronomy

Extrasolar Planets

The search for extrasolar planets is one of the most popular and rapidly developing topics in astronomy today. Taking part in the 'hunt' means being involved in not only the discovery of strange new worlds, but also in finding the answer to one of humanity's most sought-after questions - are we alone in the universe? This category aims to list websites that provide compelling information on the exciting search for small bodies orbiting other stars.

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• - The TEP network is a group of collaborators searching for Transits of Extrasolar Planets.
  
• - GEST, Gravitational Microlensing, Other Earths, and Life in the Universe
  
• - NASA Ames Research Centre photometric survey in search of extrasolar planets.
  
• - Explains NASA's plan to use sensitive telescopes to find planets outside of the solar-system. Includes charts and drawings.
  
• - Ground-based technology demonstrator for the ESA's Darwin space-telescope project. Site data is from a 2002 workshop.
  
• - HST Astrometry Science Team
  
• - Designed for general astrophysics and search for signs of life on Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars. It is a candidate cornerstone 9 for a European Space Agency mission in 2015.
  
• - EXPORT is a consortium of European astronomers using the telescopes on La Palma and Tenerife to study extra-solar planets, as well as the formation and evolution of protoplanetary systems.
  
• - A long term project with the main goal of searching for the dark matter with microlensing phenomena.
  
• - Detection and characterisation of: (1) acoustic oscillations in Sun-like stars, including very old stars (metal-poor subdwarfs) and magnetic stars (roAp), to probe seismically their structures and ages; (2) reflected light from giant exoplanets closely or
  
• - The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph
  
• - South Pole based observatory to detect transits of extrasolar planets.
  
• - Planet-finding assessment by the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham 2004.
  
• - Overview and updates on the ESA's Earth-like planet hunting space-telescope project.
  
• - A brief history of the search for extrasolar planets, the findings and the future implications.
  
• - Extrasolar Visions - An Extrasolar Planets Guide
  
• - NASA Origins program report on the progress and future plans for the discovery of extrasolar planetary systems.
  
• - NASA JPL's Optical Long Baseline Interferometer project homepage. Aims to increase optical resolution of the local universe sufficient to detect extrasolar planets and other phenomena.
  
• - MIRLIN - The JPL Deep-Well Mid-Infrared Array Camera
  
• - Discover NASA's plan for advanced telescope searches for Earth-like planets around other stars. Learn about 2 separate missions with distinct designs to achieve the goal.
  
• - ESA space-telescope designed to seek out extrasolar planets and investigate the internal structure of stars. (Mission cancelled Nov. 2003)
  
• - The UMBRAS goal is direct observation of planets around other stars.
  
• - The site of California and Carnegie program for extrasolar planet search.
  
• - A NASA mission dedicated to discovery of planets around others stars through observation of planets transits.
  
• - The reference site for astronomer involved in the search for extrasolar planets.
  
• - The Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) Project is a joint Japanese/New Zealand experiment established in 1995 to carry out astrophysical observations from New Zealand using `gravitational microlensing' and related techniques.
  
• - FAME is an astrometric satellite designed to determine with unprecedented accuracy the positions, distances, and motions of 40 million stars within our galactic neighborhood. It is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) and sever
  
• - Will study all aspects of planets outside the solar system from their formation and development to the presence and features of those planets orbiting the nearest stars.
  
• - An analysis of the differences between planets orbiting red dwarf stars including tidal locking and spectrum. Shows how life could develop in these conditions.
  
• - Astronomers have found the oldest and most distant planet known in the universe.
  
• - The purpose of transitsearch.org is to coordinate and direct a cooperative observational effort which will allow experienced amateur astronomers and small college observatories to discover transiting extrasolar planets.
  
• - The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope designed to study the formation of the first stars and galaxies, the evolution of galaxies and the production of elements by stars, and the process of star and planet
  
• - A NASA and JPL site in search of another Earth
  
• - The extrasolar planet search in Geneva. This team has found in '95 the first extrasolar planets around the star 51 Pegasi.
  
• - Mission designed to provide improved resolution of closely spaced objects with comparable brightnesses (binary stars, microlensing events) and to facilitate separation of dim objects from nearby bright objects (such as planets around stars).
  
• - Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE The Advanced Fiber-Optic Echelle (AFOE) spectrometer is a fiber-fed, bench-mounted echelle spectrograph, located at the 1.5m telescope of the Whipple Observatory, near Tucson, Arizona.
  
• - Long-term southern hemisphere program being carried with the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope.
  
• - Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets. Overview and publications.
  
• - Worldwide Network of Astronomers Searching for Extra-Solar Planets
  
• - NASA planet imager proposal.
  
• - Describes several projects aiming to detect extra-solar planets.
  
• - STARE uses precise time-series photometry to search for extrasolar giant planets transiting their parent stars.
  
  

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