HARPS tunes in on 'noisy' planets
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - 10:31
in Astronomy & Space
Able to achieve an astounding precision of 0.97 m/s (3.5 km/h), with an effective precision of the order of 30 cms-1, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) echelle spectrograph has already discovered 16 planetary objects in the southern hemisphere and has now logged four more. And thats only the beginning...