List of exoplanet search projects
The following is a list of exoplanet search projects.
Ground-based search projects
Space missions
Past and current
Name | Launch Date | End Date | Amount of Exoplanets Found | Current Candidates | Telescope Use |
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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
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- ↑ "FINDS Exo-Earths". www.planetary.org. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
- ↑ "Planet Imager » About". planetimager.org. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
- ↑ [email protected]. "ESO - HARPS". www.eso.org. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
- ↑ University, HAT Exoplanet Surveys, Princeton. "The HAT Exoplanet Surveys". hatsurveys.org. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
- ↑ "SOPHIE |". exoplanets.ch. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "WASP Planets". WASP Planets. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "CHEOPS EXOPLANET MISSION MEETS KEY MILESTONES EN ROUTE TO 2017 LAUNCH".
- ↑ "Objectives". sci.esa.int. Retrieved 2016-06-12.
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