Science

The lightest exo-planet ever discovered, only 1.9 Earth masses, has been detected by HARPS. Moreover, a recomputation of the orbits of the planetary system, of which by now we have detected 4 planets, reveals that the outermost planet might lie inside the habitable zone, where liquid water might exist on its surface. ESO press release

Main Science Objectives

• Search for extrasolar planets
• Asteroseismology

Science Links

Extra-solar planet searches

• Extra-solar planets catalog
• Extra-sola planets encyclopedia
• Geneva Observatoire extra-solar planets page.

Asteroseismology

• Asteroseismology page in Leuven.

Variable stars

• The VSOP (Variable Star One shot Project) page

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HARPS Science News

• HARPS refereed papers from the ADS
• All HARPS entries from the ADS

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
• HD330075b: a new hot Jupiter
• ESO Messenger 114 (December 2003): Setting New Standards with HARPS (.pdf, 1.1 Mb)
• ESP Press Release 06/03 (March 2003): "First Light" for HARPS at La Silla: Advanced Planet-Hunting Spectrograph Passes First Tests With Flying Colours
• ESO Messenger 110 (December 2002): HARPS - ESO's coming planet searcher (.ps.gz, 1 Mb)
• SPIE conference Waikoloa (August 2002): Performance Verification of HARPS: First Laboratory Results (ps.gz, 2.5Mb)