List of exoplanet search projects

The following is a list of exoplanet search projects.

Ground-based search projects

Anglo-Australian Planet Search (AAPS)
Automated Planet Finder (APF), based at the Lick Observatory
Carl Sagan Institute
CORALIE spectrograph, based at Leonhard Euler Telescope
East-Asian Planet Search Network (EAPSNET)
ELODIE
EPICS, based at the E-ELT
ESPRESSO, based at the VLT, first light scheduled for 2017.
FINDS Exo-Earths
Gemini Planet Imager (GPI)
Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search
- High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS)
- HARPS-N
HATNet Project (HATNet)
HEK
HiCIAO, based at the Subaru Telescope
High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES), based at the W. M. Keck Observatory
KELT
Lick–Carnegie Exoplanet Survey (LCES)
Magellan Planet Search Program
MARVELS
MEarth Project
Microlensing Follow-Up Network (MicroFUN)
Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA)
Micro-arcsecond University of Sydney Companion Astrometry (MUSCA)
MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA)
N2K Consortium
NASA-UC Eta-Earth
New Mexico Exoplanet Spectroscopic Survey Instrument (NESSI)
Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), at Paranal, since 2015
Okayama Planet Search Program (OPSP)
Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE)
Palomar High-precision Astrometric Search for Exoplanet Systems (PHASES)
PlanetPol
PlanetQuest
PRL Advanced Radial-velocity All-sky Search (PARAS)
Project 1640
Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)
SOPHIE échelle spectrograph
Spectro-Polarimetric High-Contrast Exoplanet Research (SPHERE)
SPECULOOS
Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS)
SuperWASP (WASP)
Systemic, an amateur search project
Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES)
XO Telescope (XO)
ZIMPOL/CHEOPS, subsystem of the VLT-SPHERE instrument, based at the VLT

Space missions

Past and current

MOST – launched on 30 June 2003
SWEEPS (2006), based at the Hubble Space Telescope
COROT – launched on 27 December 2006, ended mission in 2013
EPOXI, using the existing Deep Impact – from 2008 till 2013
Kepler – launched on 7 March 2009
Gaia – launched on 19 December 2013

Planned

CHEOPS – launch in 2017
TESS – launch in 2017
James Webb Space Telescope – launch in 2018
PLATO – launch in 2024

Proposed

Canceled

References

Exoplanet search projects

Ground-based

Space missions

Past and current	MOST (2003–present) SWEEPS (2006) COROT (2006–2013) EPOXI (2008–2013) Kepler (2009–present) KOI exoplanets Gaia (2013–present)

Planned	CHEOPS (2017) TESS (2017) James Webb Space Telescope (2018) PLATO (2024) WFIRST (mid-2020s)

Proposed	ATLAST EXCEDE FINESSE New Worlds Mission PEGASE

Cancelled	Darwin EChO Eddington Space Interferometry Mission Terrestrial Planet Finder

Exoplanetology

Main topics

Types

Terrestrial	Carbon planet Coreless planet Desert planet Dwarf planet Ice planet Iron planet Lava planet Mega-Earth Ocean planet Sub-Earth Super-Earth

Gaseous	Chthonian planet Eccentric Jupiter Gas dwarf Helium planet Hot Jupiter Hot Neptune Ice giant Mini-Neptune Super-Jupiter

Other types	Brown dwarf Circumbinary planet Double planet Mesoplanet Planemo Planetesimal Protoplanet Pulsar planet Sub-brown dwarf

Evolution

Catalogues

Exoplanetary systems
Exoplanets

Other

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