Extrasolar Planets Astronomy

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 Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) - A long term project with the main goal of searching for the dark matter with microlensing phenomena.
  
• Anglo-Australian Planet Search - Long-term southern hemisphere program being carried with the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope.
  
• Umbral Missions Blocking Radiating Astronomical Sources (project) - The UMBRAS goal is direct observation of planets around other stars.
  
• The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia - The reference site for astronomer involved in the search for extrasolar planets.
  
• Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search - The extrasolar planet search in Geneva. This team has found in '95 the first extrasolar planets around the star 51 Pegasi.
  
• Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE - 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.
  
• Planet Imager - NASA planet imager proposal.
  
• University of St. Andrews - Planet Search - Describes several projects aiming to detect extra-solar planets.
  
• Terrestrial Planet Finder - Explains NASA's plan to use sensitive telescopes to find planets outside of the solar-system. Includes charts and drawings.
  
• Optical Long Baseline Interferometry News - 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.
  
• Vulcan South - South Pole based observatory to detect transits of extrasolar planets.
  
• Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork - Worldwide Network of Astronomers Searching for Extra-Solar Planets
  
• Planet Quest: Missions - Terrestrial Planet Finder - 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.
  
• Transit search - 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.
  
• ExNPS Road Map - August 1996 - NASA Origins program report on the progress and future plans for the discovery of extrasolar planetary systems.
  
• Planet Quest - A NASA and JPL site in search of another Earth
  
• European Extra-Solar Planet Consortium - 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.
  
• The Origin of Planetary Systems - EU Network - Home site of European Union funded Research Training Network "The Origin of Planetary Systems".
  
• About Astronomy & Space - Two Architectures Chosen for Terrestrial Planet Finder - 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.
  
• Space - Orbits of planets in binary star systems. Java orbit animations and diagrams of stable retrograde planetary orbits not documented anywhere else.
  
• Arizona Search for Planets (ASP) - Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets. Overview and publications.
  
• Record Breaker: A Planet from the Early Universe - Astronomers have found the oldest and most distant planet known in the universe. Written by Ron Cowen.
  
• Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) - A joint Japanese/New Zealand project established to carry out astrophysical observations using a gravitational microlensing technique. Applications include research for extra-solar planets, dark matter, stellar atmospheres, and variable stars. Page incl
  
• List of links treating of extrasolar planets and their detection - This page presents a list of carefully selected links to very informative sites about extra solar planets.
  
• Microvariability and Oscillations os STars - 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
  
• Scientific consideration about Extrasolar Planets - A brief history of the search for extrasolar planets, the findings and the future implications.
  
• California and Carnegie Planet Search - The site of California and Carnegie program for extrasolar planet search.
  
• James Webb Space Telescope - The 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 formation.
  
• STellar Astrophysics & Research on Exoplanets - STARE uses precise time-series photometry to search for extrasolar giant planets transiting their parent stars.
  
• Extrasolar Visions - An Extrasolar Planets Guide - Extrasolar Visions - An Extrasolar Planets Guide
  
• Nova Celestia - A Guide to Extrasolar Planets - Contains information and free illustrations of Extrasolar planets (carbon planets, gas giants and terrestrial planets), detection methods and missions.
  
• The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph - The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph
  
• Transits of Extrasolar Planets - The TEP network is a group of collaborators searching for Transits of Extrasolar Planets.
  
  

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