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A NASA mission dedicated to discovery of planets around others stars through observation of planets transits.
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Kepler Mission: A Search for Terrestrial Planets It is a special purpose space mission in the NASA Headquarters Discovery Program for detecting terrestrial planets, that is, rocky and Earth-size, around other stars. How can extra solar terrestrial planets be detected? When a planet passes in front of its parent star, as seen by us, it blocks a small fraction of the light from that star. If the dimming is truly caused by a planet, then the transits must be repeatable. Measuring three transits all with a consistent period, duration and change in brightness provides a rigorous method for discovering and confirming planets planets even smaller than the...The reference site for astronomer involved in the search for extrasolar planets.
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Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia Other sites relevant to extrasolar planets update: 21 February 2005 Astronomers are encouraged to send their preprints to Jean.Schneider@obspm.fr (latex or postscript files) J. Schneider, Observatoire, 92195 Meudon, France Back to the Jean Schneider home page (updated 14 March 2002 The URL of this page is http www.obspm.fr/planets...A brief history of the search for extrasolar planets, the findings and the future implications.
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Extrasolar Planets This web page is an attempt to provide a review of humankind's quest for the discovery of planets outside our Solar System. In addition, a series of major web sites dealing with the search for extrasolar planets are listed. They are as follows: Discovery of Extrasolar Planets Extrasolar Planetary Systems Exoplanets The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia New Planets Known Planetary Systems Other Solar Systems Other Worlds, Distant Stars In addition to the above sites, NASA's Origins Program is attempting to answer an important question (among others Are there worlds like the Earth around nearby stars? If so, are they habitable, and...Starware search is an excellent resource for quality sites on Extrasolar Planets and much more! Starware also provides related listings for Extrasolar Planets.
http://search.starware.com/searc...id=9001&qry=Extrasolar%20PlanetsThe site of California and Carnegie program for extrasolar planet search.
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We gratefully acknowledge support from: NASA, NSF, and SunMicrosystems....Describes several projects aiming to detect extra-solar planets.
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UStAPS University of St.Andrews Planet Search Doppler surveys show that 1% of nearby main sequence stars host Hot Jupiters in 3-4 day 0.05 AU orbits. 10% of these will have orbits close enough to edge-on for the planet to transit in front of the star. Thus 1 in 1000 main sequence stars should wink every 3-4 days. Jupiter transiting the Sun produces a 1% wink easy to detect by differential CCD photometry. Lower mass main sequence stars are smaller, making their winks even deeper. There are many transit searches underway worldwide. St.Andrews is pursuing both Deep and Wide transit searches. DEEP SURVEY: We use the wide-field...The extrasolar planet search in Geneva. This team has found in '95 the first extrasolar planets around the star 51 Pegasi.
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The Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search Programmes A chronology of the discoveries Our Detections and Confirmations Related Publications Our Different Surveys: The ELODIE Northern Extrasolar Planet Search (OHP-France) The CORALIE Survey for Southern Extra-solar Planets (La Silla-Chile) The M-Dwarf Programmes Future Instruments: UVES on the VLT HARPS on the ESO 3.6m Local Informations: Our Detection Method: Related Links: Last Update: July the 17th 2003, Contact:D. Naef S. Udry...Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets. Overview and publications.
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Extra-Solar Planet Search A series of preliminary tests were conducted to discover how to get the greatest sensitivity in our measurements. Now that those tests have been completed, we are expanding our efforts to begin a full scale survey project. This includes our joining the collaboration to operate the 1.3-m telescope on Kitt Peak. Overview Since the discovery of the first planet around 51 Pegasi, there has been an increased interest in the search for Extra-Solar planets. The links below will give you a brief overview of other, commonly used search methods, details of our method of choice (the transit method as well...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.
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Darwin Home Page space infrared interferometer planet finding mission Characterising planetary systems orbiting nearby stars Searching for signs of life on any Earth-like planets found Performing general astrophysics The European Space Agency has selected the InfraRed Space Interferometer Darwin as a mission for its Horizons 2000 programme. Selection of a launch date, probably at or after 2015, will be made on cost, science and technology grounds sometime before then. These pages give some information on this project, and thus are supplementry to the official ESA Darwin website. See also ESA Science and ESA RSSD Astrophysics. A description of the interferometer and the science may...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.
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Planet Quest: Missions Terrestrial Planet Finder Package and announced an upcoming pre-proposal conference Full story The TPF general astrophysics whitepaper is now available Download (PDF, 2.1 MB) NASA has announced the Science Working Group for TPF-I and the Science and Technology Definition Team for TPF-C Full story Team lists The Terrestrial Planet Finder observatories will study all aspects of planets outside our solar system: from their formation and development in disks of dust and gas around newly forming stars to the presence and features of those planets orbiting the nearest stars; from the numbers at various sizes and places to their suitability as an abode for...A NASA and JPL site in search of another Earth
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Extrasolar Planets The past four weeks have been heady ones in the planet-finding world: Three teams of astronomers announced the discovery of 12 previously unknown worlds, bringing the total count of planets outside our solar system to 145. FULL STORY Spitzer observes beginnings of mini solar system Interactive map of worldwide planet search projects d More News Former athlete flexes new muscles for planet search (January 19, 2005 Twice named All-American in track and field, he placed 12th in the 1992 U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier in high jump. Now, he has his sights set on even loftier goals building an instrument to...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.
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Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE Extrasolar planet detection is the search for planets around other stars than our Sun. Several techniques are being used to detect planets around other suns; they are discussed in a Scientific American Exploration Web page. The AFOE has been designed to provide the required precison and stability to detect the wobble induced on the star by the presence of a planet. Indeed, both the planet and the star revolve around their common center of gravity. While the center of gravity is very close to the center of the star, it is not exactly at the center of the star. Therefore...The UMBRAS goal is direct observation of planets around other stars.
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Uncovering New Worlds Who else works on occulters? Publications 04-03-11 Other Technical Information Newsletters 02-01-07 What is UMBRAS? UMBRAS (Umbral Missions Blocking Radiating Astronomical Sources) is a technique and a class of space science missions. The UMBRAS goal is direct observation of planets around other stars Direct observation means images, photometry, and spectroscopy, as contrasted to the measurement of stellar reflex motion and variations in starlight flux used to demonstrate the discovery of extrasolar planets found so far. UMBRAS uses a companion spacecraft with a space telescope placed far from Earth. The companion spacecraft carries an occulting screen designed to reduce the glare...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).
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The Big Occulting Steerable Satellite S project are supported by NSF CAREER grant PHY-9600193 to CWRU, and by grants from the Department of Energy and NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. Questions? Comments? e-mail us!...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.
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/scps/moa/MIRLIN - The JPL Deep-Well Mid-Infrared Array Camera
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MIRLIN This was the first run with MIRLIN operating as a full IRTF facility instrument. The dot to the lower left of Jupiter is Ganymede. Jupiter, 7.85 181;m Jupiter, 17.2 181;m MIRLIN is now considered a part-time facility instrument at the IRTF; it is available to the IRTF community eight months of the year. Proposals to use it should be written in a manner similar to any other IRTF facility instrument. In particular, you do not need to include MIRLIN team members as collaborators on your proposals! Proposals to use the instrument at Palomar are welcome from anyone within the Palomar...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.
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Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (FAME) Your browser does not support HTML frames! You need to upgrade! Download a copy of Netscape....A long term project with the main goal of searching for the dark matter with microlensing phenomena.
http://sirius.astrouw.edu.pl/~ogle/GEST, Gravitational Microlensing, Other Earths, and Life in the Universe
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GEST As a planet system passes in front of a star, the star is distorted and magnified. GEST will image the time series of about 100 million of those stars. Is the Earth in the button gravitationally lensed? No. Not all distortions are due to gravitational lensing. Click here for more details on GEST PhysicsWeb news article on GEST...Worldwide Network of Astronomers Searching for Extra-Solar Planets
http://mplanet.anu.edu.au/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.
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Transitsearch.org Jupiter type planets such as HD 209458 b, OGLE TR56-b, and TrES-1 have added an additional element of excitement to the quest for alien solar systems. Furthermore, the past several years have seen the introduction of highly affordable small telescopes equipped with sensitive CCD detectors. A large number of amateur astronomers and small colleges own observatories which, when properly configured, are capable of reliably detecting the periodic dimming that occurs when a close-in giant planet passes in front of its parent star as seen from Earth. This technique has been used by amateurs worldwide to detect the planetary transits of...
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