Science with HARPS

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HARPS: Science

HARPS press releases

A system with three "super-Earth" planets has been detected by HARPS.
The three planets have masses of 4.2, 6.9 and 9.2 the mass of the Earth.
The RMS of the residuals to the fitted orbits is of only 0.85m/s in 5 years,
including instrumental and stellar effects. ESO press release, Nature press release (16-06-2008).

The birthplace of the exoplanet-host star Iota Orologii has been identified thanks to HARPS observations: ESO press release.

HARPS unveils an extrasolar planetary system with three Neptune-mass planets (ESO press release 18-06, May 18th 2006).

14 earth masses exoplanet discovered (August 2004, press relase 22-04)

HARPS first light: 11-02-2003 (press release 06-03)

HARPS refereed papers from the ADS

All HARPS entries from the ADS

HARPS in the general press

National Geographics, 2004

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