Anglo-Australian Planet Search
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The Anglo-Australian Planet Search or AAPS is a long-term astronomical survey started in 1998 and continuing to the present. It is being carried out on the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope, AAT, of the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Australia. The purpose of this survey is to catalog planets around more than 240 nearby stars of the southern hemisphere. Observations are made using the AAT and the University College London Echelle Spectrograph or UCLES. This survey uses the radial velocity method to search for extrasolar planets.[1]
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Planets discovered by AAPS [edit]
This survey has announced the discovery of 27 planetary objects as of May 2009, including three multi-planet systems.
| Planet | Date announced |
|---|---|
| mu Ara b | 3 Dec 2000 |
| eps Ret b | 3 Dec 2000 |
| HD 179949 b | 3 Dec 2000 |
| HD 142 b | Oct 2001 |
| HD 23079 b | Oct 2001 |
| pi Men b | Oct 2001 |
| HD 2039 b | 13 Jun 2002 |
| HD 73526 b | 13 Jun 2002 |
| HD 30177 b | 13 Jun 2002 |
| HD 76700 b | 13 Jun 2002 |
| HD 196050 b | 13 Jun 2002 |
| rho Ind b | 13 Jun 2002 |
| tau1 Gru b | 17 Sep 2002 |
| HD 70642 b | 4 Jul 2003 |
| HD 102117 b | 15 Sep 2004 |
| HD 117618 b | 15 Sep 2004 |
| HD 154857 b | 15 Sep 2004 |
| mu Ara c | 15 Sep 2004 |
| HD 208487 b | 15 Sep 2004 |
| HD 20782b | 1 Jun 2006 |
| HD 187085 b | 1 Jun 2006 |
| HD 73526 c | 10 Aug 2006 |
| HD 23127b | 7 Feb 2007 |
| HD 154857 c | 7 Feb 2007 |
| HD 159868 b | 7 Feb 2007 |
| GJ 832 b | 1 Sep 2008 |
| HD 16417 b | 23 Feb 2009 |
See also [edit]
- HARPS spectrograph is another planet detector in the southern hemisphere.
- List of extrasolar planets
References [edit]
- ^ Tinney et al.; Butler, R. Paul; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Jones, Hugh R. A.; Penny, Alan J.; Vogt, Steven S.; Apps, Kevin; Henry, Gregory W. (10 April 2001). "First Results from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search: A Brown Dwarf Candidate and a 51 Peg-like Planet" (PDF). The Astrophysical Journal 551 (1): 507–511. arXiv:astro-ph/0012204. Bibcode:2001ApJ...551..507T. doi:10.1086/320097.
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