Open Directory - Science: Astronomy: Extrasolar Planets
See also: This category in other languages: - Discusses the kind of stars that might have habitable planets, where to search for them and the requirements for life to develop. - Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets. Overview and publications. - The site of California and Carnegie program for extrasolar planet search. - 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 monthly electronic newsletter about research in exoplanet science. Includes archives since September 2007. - This page presents a list of carefully selected links to informative sites about extra solar planets. - Provides information on extrasolar planets, ranging from answers to simple questions to a whole course, with a database and interactive simulations. - Provides information and a blog about exoplanets and the astronomical science behind them. - 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. - A blog keeping track with current updates on exoplanets. - Extrasolar Visions - An Extrasolar Planets Guide - The extrasolar planet search in Geneva. This team has found in '95 the first extrasolar planets around the star 51 Pegasi. - An organization which aims to help mankind to migrate to the habitable zone of an exoplanet when one is discovered. - Includes details of projects, publications, software, and group members. - 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. - 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. - 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 includes information on imaging processes, the group's telescope, and publications. - Annual report on the progress and future plans for the research being undertaken. - Contains information and free illustrations of Extrasolar planets (carbon planets, gas giants and terrestrial planets), detection methods and missions. - 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. - NASA planet imager proposal. - A NASA and JPL site in search of another Earth - Worldwide Network of Astronomers Searching for Extra-Solar Planets - STARE uses precise time-series photometry to search for extrasolar giant planets transiting their parent stars. Includes an overview of the project, sample results and data products. - A brief history of the search for extrasolar planets, the findings and the future implications. - Explains NASA's plan to use sensitive telescopes to find planets outside of the solar-system. Includes charts and drawings. - The reference site for astronomer involved in the search for extrasolar planets. - A long term project with the main goal of searching for the dark matter with microlensing phenomena. - The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph - Project to encourage amateur astronomers worldwide to detect transiting extrasolar planets. - The TEP network is a group of collaborators searching for Transits of Extrasolar Planets. - The UMBRAS goal is to use external occulters to allow a search to be made for extrasolar planets in ways that cannot be done with current methods. - Describes several projects aiming to detect extra-solar planets. - South Pole based observatory to detect transits of extrasolar planets. - Astronomers have found the oldest and most distant planet known in the universe. Written by Ron Cowen. (July 12, 2003)
