The SARG Exo - Planets Search

updated novembre 20, 2002   



The SARG Exo Planets Search is the italian project aimed in finding and studing extra solar planets orbiting around wide binaries componets. The project team is formed by people from some Italian Astronomical Observatories (Padova, Catania and Teramo) and M. Endl who made the software AUSTRAL (Endl, Kuster, Els, 2000, A&A, 362, 585) we are using for the  Radial Velocity measurements with iodine absorption cell. The observation were obtained  with the italian spectrograph SARG coupled with the Italian Telescope TNG. The search of photometric variabilities and planetary  transits are planned to be performed with the TNT telescope of the Teramo Astronomical Observatory.


Discovered the first italian planet candidate in the binary system HD 219542

Press Release (Ita Eng)    Stellar and Planetary Parameters   Orbit     Radial Velocity Curve   Article

Galactic Orbits of Stars with Planets

article         tables

First Results of the SARG Exo-planets Search

Non-interacting main sequence binaries with different chemical composition: evidences of infall of rocky material?

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