Southern Sky extrasolar Planet search Programme
Programme:
A Geneva Observatory research programme
Members:
- Scientific programme: Michel Mayor, Dominique Naef, Francesco Pepe, Didier Queloz, Nuno Santos, Stephane Udry
- Visiting observer: Bastien Confino, Bernard Pernier, Yves Revaz
- Computer control: Andre Blecha, Luc Weber
- Telescope and technical team: Daniel Huguenin, Michel Fleury, Rene Dubosson, Michel Burnet, Emile Ischi, Charles Maire, Giovanni Russiniello
Telescope: The Leonard Euler Swiss telescope at La Silla Observatory
Detector: Coralie
Time allocation: 200 nights per year
Sample:
A sample of > 1650 stars
Selected from Hipparcos parallaxes
Main-Sequence colour-magnitude determination
Colour-dependent volume limitation
Discoveries:
- Coralie no 5
- A young active star
- A transiting Hot Jupiter
- First planetary mass-radius-density determination
- A Keck/HIRES-Elodie-Coralie result
- Elodie no 4
- Determinant Coralie follow up for transit time determination
- Coralie no 4
- A planet orbiting a young active star
- Coralie no 3
- A planet orbiting a young active star
- A Hot Jupiter
- The 2nd Coralie candidate
- The lightest minimum mass
- One more hot Jupiter
- The first Coralie discovery
- A 3.6-MJ planets in a double system
- A planet around a light red
- The closest planetary system to date
- Determinant Coralie follow up
Pictures:
Extrasolar planet page
Planet Search and Stellar Kinematics group page
Geneva observatory
University of Geneva
