The McDonald Observatory Planet Search Projects

Endl, M.; Cochran, W. D.; McArthur, B.; Allende Prieto, C.; Hatzes, A. P.; Paulson, D. B.
Bibliographical reference

Extrasolar Planets: Today and Tomorrow, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 321, held 30 June - 4 July 2003, Institut D'Astrophysique de Paris, France. Edited by Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, Alain Lecavelier des Etangs and Caroline Terquem. ISBN: 1-58381-183-4, 2004, p.105

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2004
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Presently every telescope at McDonald Observatory is utilized for the search for extrasolar planets. Here we give an overview of the precision Doppler surveys currently in progress at the 9.2 m Hobby-Eberly Telscope (HET) and the Harlan J. Smith 2.7 m telescope. Other planet search programs at McDonald Observatory include a transit search at the 0.8 m telescope (Baliber & Cochran 2003) and a project to detect planets orbiting stable pulsating white dwarfs (Mullally et al. 2003).