Extrasolar Planets

Terrestrial Planet Finder - Explains NASA's plan to use sensitive telescopes to find planets outside of the solar-system. Includes charts and drawings.
http://www.terrestrial-planet-finder.com/

Planet Quest - A NASA and JPL site in search of another Earth
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/

Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer - FAME is an astrometric satellite designed to determine with unprecedented accuracy the positions, distances, and motions of 40 million stars within our galactic neighborhood. It is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) and several other institutions.
http://www.usno.navy.mil/FAME/

Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) - 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.
http://www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/moa

The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph - The VLT UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph
http://www.eso.org/instruments/uves/

STellar Astrophysics & Research on Exoplanets - STARE uses precise time-series photometry to search for extrasolar giant planets transiting their parent stars.
http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/research/stare/stare.html

The Big Occulting Steerable Satellite (project) - Mission designed to provide improved resolution of closely spaced objects with comparable brightnesses (binary stars, microlensing events) and to facilitate separation of dim objects from nearby bright objects (such as planets around stars).
http://boss.phys.cwru.edu/

Umbral Missions Blocking Radiating Astronomical Sources (project) - The UMBRAS goal is direct observation of planets around other stars.
http://www-int.stsci.edu/~jordan/umbras/

Record Breaker: A Planet from the Early Universe - Astronomers have found the oldest and most distant planet known in the universe. Written by Ron Cowen. <small>(July 12, 2003)</small>
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/4049/title/Record_Breaker_A_planet_from_the_early_universe

European Extra-Solar Planet Consortium - 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.
http://laeff.inta.es/EXPORT/

Vulcan South - South Pole based observatory to detect transits of extrasolar planets.
http://www.polartransits.org/

About Astronomy & Space - Two Architectures Chosen for Terrestrial Planet Finder - Discover NASA's plan for advanced telescope searches for Earth-like planets around other stars. Learn about 2 separate missions with distinct designs to achieve the goal.
http://space.about.com/cs/nasanews/a/tpf051104.htm

Transits of Extrasolar Planets - The TEP network is a group of collaborators searching for Transits of Extrasolar Planets.
http://www.iac.es/proyect/tep/tephome.html

The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) - A long term project with the main goal of searching for the dark matter with microlensing phenomena.
http://sirius.astrouw.edu.pl/~ogle/

Darwin Space Inferometer Project (ESA SCIENCE) - Overview and updates on the ESA's Earth-like planet hunting space-telescope project.
http://sci.esa.int/home/darwin/

Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search - The extrasolar planet search in Geneva. This team has found in '95 the first extrasolar planets around the star 51 Pegasi.
http://obswww.unige.ch/~udry/planet/planet.html

Optical Long Baseline Interferometry News - 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.
http://olbin.jpl.nasa.gov/

Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE - 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.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/afoe/espd.html

HST Astrometry - HST Astrometry Science Team
http://clyde.as.utexas.edu/SpAstNEW/ASTindex.html

Anglo-Australian Planet Search - Long-term southern hemisphere program being carried with the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope.
http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/cgt/planet/aat.html

Microvariability and Oscillations os STars - 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.
http://www.astro.ubc.ca/MOST/

Planet Quest: Missions - Terrestrial Planet Finder - Will study all aspects of planets outside the solar system from their formation and development to the presence and features of those planets orbiting the nearest stars.
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/TPF/tpf_index.html

University of St. Andrews - Planet Search - Describes several projects aiming to detect extra-solar planets.
http://star-www.st-and.ac.uk/~kdh1/ustaps.html

Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork - Worldwide Network of Astronomers Searching for Extra-Solar Planets
http://mplanet.anu.edu.au/

List of links treating of extrasolar planets and their detection - This page presents a list of carefully selected links to very informative sites about extra solar planets.
http://www.galacticsurf.net/extrasolGB.htm

ExNPS Road Map - August 1996 - NASA Origins program report on the progress and future plans for the discovery of extrasolar planetary systems.
http://origins.jpl.nasa.gov/library/exnps/ExNPS.html

Transit search - The purpose of transitsearch.org is to coordinate and direct a cooperative observational effort which will allow experienced amateur astronomers and small college observatories to discover transiting extrasolar planets.
http://www.transitsearch.org/index.htm

Extrasolar Visions - An Extrasolar Planets Guide - Extrasolar Visions - An Extrasolar Planets Guide
http://www.extrasolar.net

Planet Imager - NASA planet imager proposal.
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/P/PlanetImager.html

California and Carnegie Planet Search - The site of California and Carnegie program for extrasolar planet search.
http://exoplanets.org

The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia - The reference site for astronomer involved in the search for extrasolar planets.
http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/encycl.html

James Webb Space Telescope - 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.
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

The Origin of Planetary Systems - EU Network - Home site of European Union funded Research Training Network "The Origin of Planetary Systems".
http://www.usm.uni-muenchen.de/PLANETS/

Mid-InfraRed Large-well Imager - MIRLIN - The JPL Deep-Well Mid-Infrared Array Camera
http://cougar.jpl.nasa.gov/mirlin.html

Nova Celestia - A Guide to Extrasolar Planets - Contains information and free illustrations of Extrasolar planets (carbon planets, gas giants and terrestrial planets), detection methods and missions.
http://www.novacelestia.com/space_art_extrasolar_planets.html

Eddington (ESA SCIENCE) - ESA space-telescope designed to seek out extrasolar planets and investigate the internal structure of stars. (Mission cancelled Nov. 2003)
http://sci.esa.int/home/eddington/

Arizona Search for Planets (ASP) - Full scale survey project for extra-solar planets. Overview and publications.
http://www.psi.edu/~esquerdo/asp/asp.html

Space - Orbits of planets in binary star systems. Java orbit animations and diagrams of stable retrograde planetary orbits not documented anywhere else.
http://www32.brinkster.com/snefru/space/

Scientific consideration about Extrasolar Planets - A brief history of the search for extrasolar planets, the findings and the future implications.
http://www.public.asu.edu/~sciref/exoplnt.htm