Science

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.

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)