List of exoplanet search projects

The following is a list of exoplanet search projects.

Ground-based search projects

Project Name Status Amount of exoplanets found Notes
Anglo-Australian Planet Search (AAPS) Active 28 (As of February 2014)
Automated Planet Finder (APF) Active 0 based at the Lick Observatory (also known as the Rocky Planet Finder)[1]
Carl Sagan Institute Active 0
CORALIE spectrograph Active 5 based at Leonhard Euler Telescope
East-Asian Planet Search Network (EAPSNET) Active 1
ELODIE Decommissioned 4
EPICS Future (2024) N/A based at the E-ELT[2][3]
ESPRESSO Future (Late 2016) N/A based at the VLT[4][5]
FINDS Exo-Earths Active 0 based at the 3m telescope at Lick Observatory[6]
Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) Active 1 [7]
Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search Active 1+
High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) Active 130+ [8]
HARPS-N Active 0
HATNet and HATSouth Projects (HAT) Active 93+ [9]
HEK Active 0
HiCIAO Active 0
High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) Active 0 based at the W. M. Keck Observatory
KELT Active 10
Lick–Carnegie Exoplanet Survey (LCES) Active 1+
Magellan Planet Search Program Active 10+
MARVELS Active 0
MEarth Project Active 2
Microlensing Follow-Up Network (MicroFUN) Merged with PLANET 10
Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) Active 8
Micro-arcsecond University of Sydney Companion Astrometry (MUSCA) - -
MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA) Active 0
N2K Consortium Active 7
NASA-UC Eta-Earth Active 1+
New Mexico Exoplanet Spectroscopic Survey Instrument (NESSI) Active 0
Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) Active 0 at Paranal, since 2015
Okayama Planet Search Program (OPSP) Active 3
Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) Active 17+
Palomar High-precision Astrometric Search for Exoplanet Systems (PHASES) - -
PlanetPol Decommissioned 0
PlanetQuest Active 0
PRL Advanced Radial-velocity All-sky Search (PARAS) Active 0
Project 1640 Active 0+
Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) Active 0
SOPHIE échelle spectrograph Active 0+ [10]
Spectro-Polarimetric High-Contrast Exoplanet Research (SPHERE) Active 0
SPECULOOS - -
Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS) Active 1+ [11]
SuperWASP (WASP) Active 118+ [12]
Systemic Active 0 an amateur search project
Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES) Decommissioned 5
XO Telescope (XO) Active 5
ZIMPOL/CHEOPS Active 0 subsystem of the VLT-SPHERE instrument, based at the VLT[13]

Space missions

Past and current

Name Launch Date End Date Amount of Exoplanets Found Current Candidates Telescope Use
MOST June 20, 2003 Ongoing 1+ 0 First spacecraft dedicated to the study of asteroseismology
EPOXI July 21, 2005 August 8, 2013 0 0 Characterized planets and fly-by of comet
SWEEPS 2006 2006 16 0 Based from the HST, a short 7 day mission looking for exoplanets
COROT December 27, 2006 November 2, 2012 29 600 Mission to look for exoplanets
Kepler March 7, 2009 August 15, 2013 2,329 2,416 Mission to look for large amounts of exoplanets
-K2 November 18, 2013 Ongoing 127 458 (+558 microlensing events) After the gyro wheels failed on kepler this mission was created
Gaia December 19, 2013 Ongoing 0 0 Map 1 billion astronomical objects in the Milky Way (First data Release November 2, 2016)
2,499 (3,368 Total) 3,474

Planned

Name Launch Date Object of Mission Duration
CHEOPS December 2017[14] To learn more about how exoplanets form, probe atmospheres, and characterize super-Earth's.

20% of time will be open to community use.[15]

 3.5 (+ 1.5 goal) years
TESS December 2017 (Falcon 9) This is a mission by NASA to search for new exoplanets, rotating so by the end of its two-year

mission it will have observed stars from all over the sky. It is expected to find at least 3,000 new exoplanets.

2 years
JWST October 2018 (Ariane 5) It will look at atmospheres of known exoplanets and find some Jupiter sized exoplanets 5 (+ 5 goal) years
PLATO 2024 (Soyuz-ST) It will discover and characterize rocky planets around stars like our own. 6 years
WFIRST Mid- 2020's Look for and study exoplanets while studying dark matter. 6 years

Proposed

Canceled

References

  1. ↑ "Mt. Hamilton Telescopes: Carnegie Double Astrograph". www.ucolick.org. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  2. ↑ "E-ELT". www.eelt.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  3. ↑ [email protected]. "ESO - The European ELT". www.eso.org. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  4. ↑ [email protected]. "ESO - Espresso". www.eso.org. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  5. ↑ F., Pepe,; P., Molaro,; S., Cristiani,; R., Rebolo,; C., Santos, N.; H., Dekker,; D., Mégevand,; M., Zerbi, F.; A., Cabral, (2014-01-23). "ESPRESSO: The next European exoplanet hunter".
  6. ↑ "FINDS Exo-Earths". www.planetary.org. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  7. ↑ "Planet Imager » About". planetimager.org. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  8. ↑ [email protected]. "ESO - HARPS". www.eso.org. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  9. ↑ University, HAT Exoplanet Surveys, Princeton. "The HAT Exoplanet Surveys". hatsurveys.org. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  10. ↑ "SOPHIE |". exoplanets.ch. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  11. ↑ Thalmann, Christian; Carson, Joseph; Janson, Markus; Goto, Miwa; McElwain, Michael; Egner, Sebastian; Feldt, Markus; Hashimoto, Jun; Hayano, Yutaka (2009-12-20). "Discovery of the Coldest Imaged Companion of a Sun-Like Star". The Astrophysical Journal. 707 (2): L123–L127. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/707/2/L123. ISSN 0004-637X.
  12. ↑ "WASP Planets". WASP Planets. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  13. ↑ Schmid, H. M.; Gisler, D.; Joos, F.; Povel, H. P.; Stenflo, J. O.; Feldt, M.; Lenzen, R.; Brandner, W.; Tinbergen, J. (2005-12-01). "ZIMPOL/CHEOPS: a Polarimetric Imager for the Direct Detection of Extra-solar Planets". 343: 89. Bibcode:2005ASPC..343...89S.
  14. ↑ "CHEOPS EXOPLANET MISSION MEETS KEY MILESTONES EN ROUTE TO 2017 LAUNCH".
  15. ↑ "Objectives". sci.esa.int. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
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