Remove ads
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 3.9-metre 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. For its observations, the AAT uses the University College London Echelle Spectrograph, UCLES, an echelle spectrograph from the University College London located at the telescope's coudé focus.[1] This survey uses the radial velocity method to search for extrasolar planets.[2]
The survey eventually switched its main focus to detecting long-period Jupiter analogs.[3]
Remove ads
This survey has announced the discovery of 28 planetary objects as of February 2014, including three multi-planet systems.
| Planet | Date announced |
|---|---|
| Quijote | 3 December 2000 |
| ε Ret b | 3 December 2000 |
| HD 179949 b | 3 December 2000 |
| HD 142 b | Oct 2001 |
| HD 23079 b | Oct 2001 |
| π Men b | Oct 2001 |
| HD 2039 b | 13 June 2002 |
| HD 73526 b | 13 June 2002 |
| HD 30177 b | 13 June 2002 |
| HD 76700 b | 13 June 2002 |
| HD 196050 b | 13 June 2002 |
| ρ Ind b | 13 June 2002 |
| τ1 Gru b | 17 September 2002 |
| HD 70642 b | 4 July 2003 |
| HD 102117 b | 15 September 2004 |
| HD 117618 b | 15 September 2004 |
| HD 154857 b | 15 September 2004 |
| Dulcinea | 15 September 2004 |
| HD 208487 b | 15 September 2004 |
| HD 20782 b | 1 June 2006 |
| HD 187085 b | 1 June 2006 |
| HD 73526 c | 10 August 2006 |
| HD 23127 b | 7 February 2007 |
| HD 154857 c | 7 February 2007 |
| HD 159868 b | 7 February 2007 |
| GJ 832 b | 1 September 2008 |
| HD 16417 b | 23 February 2009 |
| HD 114613 b | 22 January 2014 |
Remove ads
- High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher is another planet detector in the southern hemisphere.
- Lists of exoplanets
Remove ads
Remove ads
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
Remove ads