PLANET  SEARCH

AND

STELLAR  KINEMATICS

Theory - Observations

GROUP  MEMBERS

• Michel Mayor (Full professor)

• Stephane Udry (Research assistant)

• Didier Queloz (Research assistant)

• Francesco Pepe (Research assistant)

• Damien Segransan (Postdoc)

• Nuno Santos (Regular visiting collaborator from Lisbon)

• Anne Eggenberger (Graduate Student)

• Christophe Lovis (Graduate Student)

• Brice Demory (Graduate Student)

• Xavier Bonfils (Graduate Student, Grenoble-Geneva thesis)

• Franck Galland (Graduate Student, Grenoble-Geneva thesis)

CURRENT  RESEARCH  TOPICS

• Search for extra-solar planets and brown dwarfs

• Radial velocity measurements at intermediate and high precisions (Coravel - Elodie - Coralie)

• High resolution Spectroscopy

• Radial-velocity standards

• Low-mass companions

• Luminosity and mass fonctions of the lower Main-Sequence

• Binarity among cool stars (G, K and M dwarfs)

• Stellar rotation

• Galactic kinematics: F-G dwarfs of the solar neighbourhood

• Outer disc Cepheids

• Coravel - Hipparcos survey

• T-Tauri stars

• Giant barium and S stars

• ....

PUBLICATIONS

• From the group

• From the Geneva Observatory

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