Astronomy: Extrasolar Planets

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	Home: Astronomy: Extrasolar Planets LINKS:   Pages: 1 2 [>>] The Kepler Mission http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/index.html A NASA mission dedicated to discovery of planets around others stars through observation of planets transits. The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/encycl.html The reference site for astronomer involved in the search for extrasolar planets. Scientific consideration about Extrasolar Planets http://www.public.asu.edu/~sciref/exoplnt.htm A brief history of the search for extrasolar planets, the findings and the future implications. California and Carnegie Planet Search http://exoplanets.org The site of California and Carnegie program for extrasolar planet search. University of St. Andrews - Planet Search http://Star-www.st-and.ac.uk/~kdh1/ustaps.html Describes several projects aiming to detect extra-solar planets. Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search http://obswww.unige.ch/%7Eudry/planet/planet.html The extrasolar planet search in Geneva. This team has found in '95 the first extrasolar planets around the star 51 Pegasi. Arizona Search for Planets (ASP) http://www.psi.edu/~esquerdo/asp/asp.html Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets. Overview and publications. Darwin - Space Infrared Interferometer Project http://ast.star.rl.ac.uk/darwin/ 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. Planet Quest: Missions - Terrestrial Planet Finder http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/TPF/tpf_index.html 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. Planet Quest http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/ A NASA and JPL site in search of another Earth Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/afoe/espd.html 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. Umbral Missions Blocking Radiating Astronomical Sources (project) http://www-int.stsci.edu/~jordan/umbras/ The UMBRAS goal is direct observation of planets around other stars. The Big Occulting Steerable Satellite (project) http://boss.phys.cwru.edu/ 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). Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics http://www.vuw.ac.nz/scps/moa/ 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. Mid-InfraRed Large-well Imager http://cougar.jpl.nasa.gov/mirlin.html MIRLIN - The JPL Deep-Well Mid-Infrared Array Camera Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer http://www.usno.navy.mil/FAME/ 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 several other institutions. The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) http://sirius.astrouw.edu.pl/~ogle/ A long term project with the main goal of searching for the dark matter with microlensing phenomena. Galactic Exoplanet Survey Telescope(project) http://bustard.phys.nd.edu/GEST/ GEST, Gravitational Microlensing, Other Earths, and Life in the Universe Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork http://mplanet.anu.edu.au/ Worldwide Network of Astronomers Searching for Extra-Solar Planets Transit search http://www.transitsearch.org/index.htm 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. HST Astrometry http://clyde.as.utexas.edu/SpAstNEW/ASTindex.html HST Astrometry Science Team STellar Astrophysics & Research on Exoplanets http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/research/stare/stare.html STARE uses precise time-series photometry to search for extrasolar giant planets transiting their parent stars. Microvariability and Oscillations os STars http://www.astro.ubc.ca/MOST/ 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 orbiting Sun-like stars, to reveal their sizes and atmospheric compositions; and (3) turbulent variations in massive evolved (Wolf-Rayet) stars to understand how they add gas to the interstellar medium. Transits of Extrasolar Planets http://www.iac.es/proyect/tep/tephome.html The TEP network is a group of collaborators searching for Transits of Extrasolar Planets. The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph http://www.eso.org/instruments/uves/ The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph   Pages: 1 2 [>>]

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