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Exoplanets detection & characterization

You can either click on one of the boxes or choose a space-based facility on the left menu to get to its description; optionally you'll find ground-based facilities and general resources at the bottom of this page:

Exoplanet missions (space-based):

exoplanet_missions CoRoT Kepler SIM GAIA PLATO Darwin

New Worlds Explorer official project homepage hosted by Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado.

New Worlds Explorer Mission Overview hosted by Wikipedia.

Terrestrial Planet Finder official project homepage hosted by NASA.

Terrestrial Planet Finder Mission Overview hosted by Wikipedia.

Exoplanet missions (ground-based)

BEST and BEST II - Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope

HARPS - High Accuracy Radial velocity Planetary Search project

SOPHIE - échelle spectrograph

SuperWASP - UK's leading extra-solar planet detection program

TLS - Planet Search at the Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg

Resources:

California & Carnegie Planet Search. Another interactive Catalogue of Exoplanets including related publications made by the University of California.

ExoPlanet News is a monthly electronic Newsletter listing abstracts of newly accepted papers in the Exoplanet Field.

Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. European interactive Catalogue of Exoplanets, including also scientific publications, bibliography and related meetings.

Global exoplanet search programmes linklist.

Southern sky extrasolar planet search programme by Geneva Observatory using the 1.2 m Leonard Euler telescope at La Silla Observatory.

HOLMES - Hunting fOr Low Mass Extrasolar planetS project website hosted by l'Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris.