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  • Nulling in Optical Interferometry: VLTI/GENIE

  • GENIE is the Ground based European Nulling Interferometry Experiment. Build by ESA as technology demonstrator for DARWIN and to become a full facility instrument for ESO's VLTI. The science objective of GENIE is to observe a couple of hundred candidate stars for DARWIN in order to measure the zodiacal light and bright orbiting extra-solar planets.
    http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~genie/

  • Darwin - Space Infrared Interferometer Project

  • Designed for general astrophysics and search for signs of life on Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars. It is a candidate cornerstone 9 for a European Space Agency mission in 2015.
    http://ast.star.rl.ac.uk/darwin/

  • Anglo-Australian Planet Search

  • Long-term southern hemisphere program being carried with the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope.
    http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/cgt/planet/aat.html

  • Umbral Missions Blocking Radiating Astronomical Sources (project)

  • The UMBRAS goal is direct observation of planets around other stars.
    http://www-int.stsci.edu/~jordan/umbras/

  • Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE

  • Extrasolar Planet Detection with the AFOE The Advanced Fiber-Optic Echelle (AFOE) spectrometer is a fiber-fed, bench-mounted echelle spectrograph, located at the 1.5m telescope of the Whipple Observatory, near Tucson, Arizona.
    http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/afoe/espd.html

  • California and Carnegie Planet Search

  • The site of California and Carnegie program for extrasolar planet search.
    http://exoplanets.org

  • University of St. Andrews - Planet Search

  • Describes several projects aiming to detect extra-solar planets.
    http://Star-www.st-and.ac.uk/~kdh1/ustaps.html

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