HARPS Project Overview

Built under ESO contract by:	Observatoire de Genève Observatoire de Haute Provence Universität Bern Service d'Aéronomie with substantial deliveries by ESO-La Silla, ESO-ODT, ESO-INS
Funded by	Swiss National Science Foundation Federal Office for Education and Research La Région Provence, Alpes et Côte d'Azur Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers INSU ESO
Principal Investigator	Michel Mayor (Geneva)
Project Scientists	Didier Queloz (Geneva), Luca Pasquini (ESO Garching)
Project Managers	Francesco Pepe (Geneva), Gero Rupprecht (ESO Garching)
Location	La Silla 3.6m telescope, coudé west room
Project status	Instrument available to the community (since 01/10/2003)
Instrument Science Team	Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard/Aarhus, Dainis Dravins/Lund, Martin Kürster/MPIA-Heidelberg, Artie Hatzes/Tautenburg, Francesco Paresce/ESO, Alan Penny/RAL
Work done by	the HARPS Team

Science Objectives

History

May 1998	Announcement of Opportunity
February 2000	project kickoff
July 2000	Preliminary Design Review
March 2001	Final Design Review
December 2002	Preliminary Acceptance (Europe)
January 2003	Installation at La Silla
February 2003	Commissioning 1
March 2003	First Call for Proposals (for Period 72)
June 2003	Commissioning 2
October 1st 2003	Instrument offered to the community.

Technical publications from and on HARPS

The Exoplanet Hunter HARPS: unequalled accuracy and perspectives towards 1cm/s precision (Aveiro SPIE conference, September 2006) .pdf, 340kB

The Exoplanet Hunter HARPS: performance and first results (Glasgow SPIE conference, June 2004) .pdf, 305kB .ps.gz, 284 kB

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