May 23rd, 2007 Detection of a planetary system around the metal-poor star HD 155358.
See Cochran et al. (2007, astro-ph/0705.3228).
May the 15th 2007 Detection of the first transiting Neptune-mass planet. Transits of
GJ 436 b are reported by Gillon et al. (2007, astro-ph/0705.2219).
May the 14th 2007 Detection of the astrometric signature induced by
HD 33636 b by Bean et al. using HST-FGS data. The orbital
inclination is low (4 degrees) and the true mass of this companion is in the stellar range: 140 M_Jup (M6V star). See
Bean et al. 2007 for details: astro-ph/0705.1861.
May the 14th 2007 TrES-3b: a massive short-period transiting planet announced by
O'Donovan et al. (2007, astro-ph/0705.2004).
May the 7th 2007 Niedzielski et al. announce the detection of a planetary companion to
the K Giant HD 17092 (see astro-ph/0705.0935).
May 3, 2007 CoRoT-Exo-1b: first transiting planet detected with the CoRoT satellite
April the 10th 2007 5 planets around metal-rich stars announced by Fischer et al.:
HD 11506 b, HD 17156 b, HD 125612 b, HD 170469 b and HD 231701 b (2007, ApJ in press, astro-ph/0704.1191)
April the 3rd 2007 HD 70573 b, a planet around a young star announced by Setiawan et al.
(2007, ApJL submitted, astro-ph/0704.0441).
March the 27th 2007 Doellinger et al. (2007, A&A in press, astro-ph/0703672)
announce the detection of a planet orbiting the giant star 4 UMa.
March the 6th 2007 The detection of a 11 Earth-mass planet around the low-mass star GJ 674 is
announced by Bonfils et al. (2007, A&A in press, astro-ph/0704.0270).
February the 18th 2007 The detection of a Neptune mass planet around the metal-rich star
HD 219828 is announced by Melo et al. (2007, A&A in press,
astro-ph/0702459). These authors also confirm and improve the orbital
solution for HD 102195 b (announced in 2006 by Ge et al., see ApJ
648, 683)
February the 9th 2007 The detection of HD 23127 b and HD 159868 b is announced by the
AAT planet serach team. See O'Toole et al. (2007, ApJ in press).
February the 7th 2007 Detection of the first planetary companion to an open-cluster star.
A 7.6 M_Jup planet orbiting the Hyades giant eps Tau detected by Sato et al. (2007, ApJL in press).
2006
November the 21st 2006 4 new planets (3 in systems), HIP 14810 b&c, HD 154345 b and
HD 187123 c, announced by Wright et al. (2007,
ApJ 653, 533).
October the 27th 2006 Updated planet parameters
for
OGLE-TR-10 b and
OGLE-TR-56-b obtained from VLT-FORS1 high-precision
photometric data. See Pont et al. (2007,
A&A 465, 1069).
October the 17th 2006 Usp And b (HD9826 b)
Night versus Day thermal emission variation detected with Spitzer. See
Harrington et al. (2006,
Science 314, 623)
October the 9th 2006 Astrometric signal of Espilon
Eridani b detected by Benedict et al. (2006).
See AJ 132, 2206
October the 6th 2006 The detection of a Jupiter-mass
planet around the nearby M3.5V dwarf GJ 849 reported by Butler et al.
(2006,
PASP 118, 1685)
September the 25th 2006
WASP-1b and
WASP-2b: 2
transiting extra-solar planets detected by the superWASP project team. See
Collier-Cameron et al. (2007,
MNRAS 375, 951).
September the 13th 2006 HAT-P-1 b: first
transiting exoplanet detected by the HATNet project team. See Bakos et al.
(2007, ApJ 656, 552).
September the 12th 2006 The Trans-atlantic
Exoplanet Survey reports the detection of a new transiting planet: TrES-2 b. See
O'Donnovan et al. 2006,
(ApJ 615, L61)
August the 14th 2006 4th planet around
mu Ara also
reported by Gozdiewski et al.
(2007, ApJ 657, 546).
August the 5th 2006 Updated orbit for
mu Ara (HD 169830)
published in Pepe et al. (2007, A&A 462, 769). A 4th
planet is detected and the orbit of massive outer planet is well constrained
for the first time.
July the 21st 2006 A Catalog of nearby exoplanets
published in Butler et al. 2006
(ApJ 646, 505).
5 new extra-solar planets announced in the same paper: HD 11964 b, HD 66428 b,
HD 99109 b, HD 107148 b and HD 164922 b.
June the 21st 2006 The presence of a planet around
Beta Gem confirmed. See Hatzes et al. 2006,
(A&A 457, 335)
May the 17th 2006 XO-1 b: a transiting planet
announced by the eXOplanet project team. See McCullough et al. 2006,
(ApJ 648, 1228)
April the 17th 2006 3 short-period planets announced by the
N2K consortium: HD 33283 b, HD 86081 b and HD 224693 b. See Johnson et al. 2006,
(ApJ 647, 600)
March the 14th 2006 HD 187085 b and HD 20782 b: 2 eccentric
exoplanet detected by the AAT team. See Jones et al. 2006,
(MNRAS 369, 249)
March the 10th 2006 OGLE-2005-BLG-169 b: a 13 Earth mass
planet candidate discovered by microlensing. See Gould et al. 2006,
(ApJ 644, L37)
February the 25th 2006 Second planet on a 2:1 resonance
around HD 73526 detected by the AAT team. See Tinney et al. 2006,
(ApJ 647, 594)
February the 20th 2006 Infrared emission of HD189733b
detected with Spitzer by Deming et al. (ApJ
644, 560)
January the 25th 2006 OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb: a 5.5 Earth-mass
planet discovered through microlensing. See J.-P. Beaulieu's Nature paper:
Nature 439, 437
January the 13th 2006 HD 102195 b detected with the Exoplanet
Tracker. See Ge et al. 2006, (ApJ
648, 683)
2005
November the 24th 2005 A massive planet to the young
disc star HD 81040
is announced by the CfA - Geneva - Tel-Aviv collaboration. This discovery is
based on KECK/HIRES and OHP/ELODIE radial-velocity data and is published in
Sozzetti et al. 2005,
A&A in press.
October the 6th 2005 Detection of a planet transiting the
bright K star HD 189733 with
ELODIE and photometric data taken with the 1.2-m Telescope at OHP
(see Bouchy et al. 2005,
A&A submitted).
September the 6th 2005 HD 33564 b:
a massive planet orbiting a F6V star detected with ELODIE
(see Galland et al. 2005,
A&A in press).
August the 22th 2005 Several planets announced
during the OHP colloquium "The tenth anniversary of 51 Peg b":
HD 109749 and
HD 149143 detected by the N2K
Consortium (see Fischer et al. 2005, ApJ in press),
HD4308 b
(see Udry et al. 2005, A&A in press),
HD 212301 b and
(see Lo Curto et al. 2005, A&A submitted)
Gl 581 b
(see Bonfils et al. 2005, A&A in press)
detected with HARPS and
HD 118203 b
detected with ELODIE
(see Da Silva et al. 2005,
A&A in press, also containing a confirmation of
HD 149143 b)
August the 4th 2005 HD 188753 b: a planet in a
triple system detected by Konacki (2005, Nature 436, 230,
ADS)
July the 1st 2005 Detection of HD 149026 b, a
short-period transiting Saturn mass planet by the
N2K consortium.
The presence of a large dense planetary core is inferred from the data. See
Sato et al., ApJ in press
(astro-ph/0507009)
June the 24th 2005 Additional planets found around
HD 37124
(3rd planet in the system),
HD 108874
(2nd planet in the system),
HD 128311
(2nd planet in the system) and
GJ 777 A
(confirmation of the long period planet + detection of a very low-mass
short-period companion) by Vogt et al. (ApJ in press). A linear systemic
velocity drift is also detected for HD 50499 revealing the presence of another
not yet characterized body in the system. Vogt et al. also show that
HD 217107 c,
although not well constrained, is most probably also a planetary companion.
June the 13th 2005 The third planetary companion to GJ 876 announed by
Rivera et al. 2005, submitted to ApJ. GJ 876 d is the lightest extra-solar planet known so far (mass
between 6 and 8 Earth masses).
May the 26th 2005 A planetary companion detected
around the giant star HD 11977 using ESO-FEROS. See Setiawan et al. 2005,
submitted to A&A (astro-ph/0505510)
May the 24th 2005 OGLE-2005-BLG-071: a planetary
microlensing event. See Udalski et al. 2005,
submitted to ApJL (astro-ph/0505451)
April the 9th 2005 A low-mass companion to HD 8673 detected by the TOPS (Tautenburg Observatory Planet Search)
team.
April the 5th 2005 A low-mass companion (planet or brown dwarf) to the giant star
HD 13189 detected by Tautenburg,
McDonald and Hobby-Heberly Telescope teams.
March the 27th 2005 Direct detection of a very low-mass companion (planet or brown dwarf) to the
young star GQ Lup with VLT-NACO. See Neuhäuser et al. 2005,
A&A 435, L13
and ESO press release
March the 22nd 2005 Thermal emission of HD 209458 b and TrES-1b detected with the Spitzer Space Telescope.
See Deming et al. 2005,
Nature 434, 740
and Charbonneau et al. 2005, ApJ (in press)
November the 17th 2004 The presence of HD 202206 c, a 2.4 M_Jup planet, reported by Correia et al.
(astro-ph/0411512).
HD 202206 was already known to
host a 17.5 M_Jup companion (see Udry et al. 2002, A&A 390, 267)
September the 15th 2004 HD 154857 b detected by the AAT team (evidence of an additional
signal is also reported).
September the 10th 2004 Possible first direct detection of an exoplanet with VLT/NAOS adaptive
optics imaging facility: 2M1207 b.
"A Giant Planet Candidate near a Young Brown Dwarf" by Chauvin et al
(see also: ESO Press Release)
September the 7th 2004 Detection of HD 88133 b by the N2K consortium (Keck, Magellan
+ Subaru). See Fischer et al. for details (astro-ph/0409107)
August the 31st 2004 Detection of two very low-mass planets: 55 Cancri e the fourth planet
in this system by McArthur et al. using HRS on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope and GJ 436 b by
Butler et al. using HIRES on the Keck Telescope. The
astrometric signal of 55 Cancri d also detected by McArthur et al.
with the FGS on the Hubble Space Telescope.
August the 26th 2004 Detection of the radial-velocity signal induced by
OGLE-TR-111 b
using UVES/FLAMES on the VLT (see Pont et al. 2004).
August the 25th 2004 TrES-1b: A new transiting exoplanet detected by the
Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TreS) team .
(see Boulder Press release or
Alonso et al.)
April the 15th 2004 OGLE 2003-BLG-235/MOA 2003-BLG-53: a planetary microlensing event (Bond et al.)
April the 14th 2004 FLAMES-UVES spectroscopic orbits for two OGLE III transiting
candidates: OGLE-TR-113 and
OGLE-TR-132 (Bouchy et al.)
February 2004 Detection of Carbon and Oxygen in the evaporating atmosphere of HD 209458 b by A. Vidal-Madjar et al. (from HST observations).
January the 5th 2004 Two planets orbiting
giant stars announced by Mitchell et al. during the AAS meeting: HD 59686 b and
91 Aqr b (HD 219499 b). Two other more massive companions, Tau Gem b (HD 54719 b) and nu Oph b (HD 163917 b), have also been announced by the same authors.
June the 26th 2003 The first planet detected with
the HIgh Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph (HIDES) at the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory: HD 104985 b, a massive planet around a giant star (Sato et al. 2003, ApJ 597, L157).
May 2003 HD 192263 b is back (Santos et al., 2003 A&A 406, 373)!
April the 14th 2003 A 2.55-d planet around HD 73256 announced by the CORALIE team (Udry et al. A&A 407, 679)
March the 12th 2003 Detection of a cometary tail around HD 209458 b (Vidal-Madjar et al. 2003, Nature 422, 143)
March the 3rd 2003 OGLE-3: a possible transiting very short period planet
January the 22th 2003 A planetary companion to the giant star HD 47536 (ESO-Feros & CORALIE radial velocities, Setiawan et al. 2003, A&A 398 L19). ESO Press release
January the 16th 2003 HD 3651 b announced by Fischer et al. (Keck & Lick radial velocities)
January the 7th 2003 A transiting 1.2-day planet announced by the OGLE team
2002
November the 29th 2002 the first SARG Exo-planet search planetary candidate around HD 219542 b
October the 7th 2002 HD 13507 b and HD 223084 b are in fact not planetary companions. The latest ELODIE and CORALIE measurements show that they are more massive (click here for details)
September the 24th 2002 a planetary companion orbiting gamma Cephei announced by A. Hatzes et al. The detection is based on radial-velocity measurements taken at McDonald Observatory.
September the 23th 2002 HD 216435 b announced by the Anglo-Australian Telescope Planet Search Team.
July the 8th 2002 HD 76700 b announced by the Anglo-Australian Telescope Planet Search Team.
July the 1st 2002 a planetary companions orbiting HD 2039 announced by the Anglo-Australian Telescope Planet Search Team.
June the 20th 2002 13 new Planetary Transit Candidates announced by the OGLE III Team.
June the 13th 2002: New detections announced by the Anglo-Australian Telescope Planet Search Team: planets around HD 30177, HD 73526, HD 196050 and HD 216437.
June the 13th 2002: New detections announced by the California Planet Search Team: 2 new planets (including a Jupiter analog) orbiting 55 Cancri; the second planetary companion to HD 12661, HD 37124 and HD 38529; planetary companions to HD 49674 (36 Earth-mass, the lightest one to date), HD 72659, HD 108874, HD 114729 and HD 128311.
February the 21st 2002:Possible Planetary Transit Candidates announced by the OGLE Team
February the 7th 2002:A 12 Jupiter-mass companion to HD 136118 announced by Fischer et al. and confirmation of the orbital solutions for HD 50554 and HD 106252.
January the 8th 2002:A planet around the giant star iota Draconis detected by the California Planet Search Team
2001
November the 27th 2001: Detection of Sodium in the atmosphere of the planet orbiting HD 209458 by Dave Charbonneau et al. using Hubble Space Telescope data
April the 15th 1999: 2 New planets orbiting Ups And: The First Extrasolar Planetary Sytem announced by Marcy's Team in collaboration with the AFOE Team
February 1999: The Second CORALIE Planetary Candidate: HD 75289 b
October the 14th: A Planet Around HD 168443 is announced by Marcy et al.
October the 12th: Planets Around HD 195019 and HD 217107 detected by Fischer et al.
September the 22th 1998: The Planetary Companion to HD 210277 is announced by Marcy et al.
September the 24th 1998: The Short-Period Companion to HD 187123 is announced by Butler et al.
July 1998: A Planet Around 14 Herculis: the Third ELODIE Planetary Candidate
June 1998: A Planet Around Gl 876: The Second ELODIE Planetary Candidate (Independant discovery by G. Marcy's team)
1997
April 1997: The Companion to rho Crb: the First detection of the AFOE Team
1996
November 1996:The Companion to 16 CygB is announced by the McDonald Obseratory Team in collaboration with Geoff Marcy's Team
August 1996: Planetary Companions to 55 Cnc, Tau Boo and Ups And announced by the Geoff Marcy's Team
February 1996: The Companion to 47 UMa is announced by Geoff Marcy's Team
January 1996: The Companion to 70 Vir is announced by Geoff Marcy's Team
1995
October the 12th 1995: Marcy and Butler start a radial-velocity follow-up of 51 Peg with the Hamilton Spectrograph at Lick Observatory. These measurement rapidly confirm the presence of the 0.5 Jupiter-Mass planet around this Star
October the 5th 1995: The first Extrasolar Planet, detected in Orbit around 51 Pegasi with the ELODIE echelle Spectrograph, is announced by Michel Mayor & Didier Queloz during the 9th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun in Florence, Italy
