Anglo-Australian Planet Search

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The Anglo Australian Planet Search or (AAPS) is a long-term astronomical survey started in 1998 and continuing to the present. It is being carried out on the 3.9-metre Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) of the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Australia. The purpose of this survey is to catalog planets around more than 240 nearby stars of the southern hemisphere. For its observations, the AAT uses the University College London Echelle Spectrograph, UCLES, an echelle spectrograph from the University College London located at the telescope's coudé focus.{{cite web |url=http://ftp.aao.gov.au/astro/ucles.html |title=U.C.L. Echelle Spectrograph (UCLES) |work=Australian Astronomical Observatory |date=29 January 2013 |access-date=12 September 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160116013452/http://ftp.aao.gov.au/astro/ucles.html |archive-date=16 January 2016 |url-status=dead }} This survey uses the radial velocity method to search for extrasolar planets.{{cite journal

|title = First Results from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search: A Brown Dwarf Candidate and a 51 Peg-like Planet

|last1 = Tinney

|first1 = C. G.

|url = http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0004-637X/551/1/507/53098.web.pdf

|journal = The Astrophysical Journal

|volume = 551

|issue = 1

|date = 10 April 2001

|pages = 507–511

|doi = 10.1086/320097

|last2 = Butler

|first2 = R. Paul

|last3 = Marcy

|first3 = Geoffrey W.

|last4 = Jones

|first4 = Hugh R. A.

|last5 = Penny

|first5 = Alan J.

|last6 = Vogt

|first6 = Steven S.

|last7 = Apps

|first7 = Kevin

|last8 = Henry

|first8 = Gregory W.

|bibcode = 2001ApJ...551..507T

|arxiv = astro-ph/0012204

|display-authors = etal

|access-date = 23 May 2009

|archive-date = 26 April 2020

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200426210808/https://iopscience.iop.org/article/0004-637X/551/1/507/53098.web.pdf

|url-status = dead

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The survey eventually switched its main focus to detecting long-period Jupiter analogs.[https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5525 The Anglo-Australian Planet Search. XXIII. Two New Jupiter Analogs]: Robert A. Wittenmyer, Jonathan Horner, C.G. Tinney, R.P. Butler, H.R.A. Jones, Mikko Tuomi, G.S. Salter, B.D. Carter, F. Elliott Koch, S.J. O'Toole, J. Bailey, D. Wright