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Extrasolar Planets Global Searches ( Ongoing Programmes and Future Projects ) Update : 03 November 2011 Ground AFOE Radial velocity search (several planets found) ongoing ALMA (Atacama Large Millimetre Array) Millimetric and submillimetric imaging under construction Amateur Exoplanet Archive (AXA) transits ongoing (several planets confirmed) Anglo-Australian Planet Search Program Radial velocity search (several planets found) APACHE (A Pathway toward the Characterization of Habitable Earths) Transits in construction Arizona Search for Planets (ASP) Search for planetary transits ongoing ASPENS Astrometry ongoing Astro Gregas transits (amateur) (several transits detected) Astronomical Nulling Interferometer (ANI) Imaging under construction Automated Planet Finder Radial velocity ongoing Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope (BEST) Search for planetary transits ongoing California & Carnegie Planet Search Radial velocity search (several planets found) ongoing CARLINA Hypertelescope Project Imaging Demonstrator ongoing Carmenes (Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Échelle Spectrographs) Radial velocity under construction Carnegie Astrometric Planet Search (CAPS) Astrometry ongoing Coralie at Leonard Euler Telescope (La Silla) Radial velocity search (several planets found) ongoing Coronographe Interferentiel Achromatique CIA (Nice) Imaging under test CSTAR Chinese Small Telescope ARray Transits ongoing CTIOPI Astrometry ongoing DayNight Day-Night Temperature Differences on Extrasolar Planets. ongoing E-ELT (ESO) Radial Velocity, Imaging project Elodie (Haute Provence) Elodie (Geneva Web page) Radial velocity search (several planets found) ongoing ESO Coude Echelle Spectrometer (CES) Radial velocity search (several planets found) closed Exoplanet Tracker Radial velocity search (one planet detected) ongoing EXPORT (EXo-Planetary Observational Research Team) Spectroscopy, photometry ongoing Externally Dispersed Interferometry Radial velocity search observatory tests Extrasolar Planets Research Group (E.P.R.G.) Transits ongoing Gemini Planet Imager GPI direct imaging under construction Giant Transiting Planets Observations - GITPO Transit search In preparation HARPS-N HARPS North Radial velocities under development High Accuracy Radial velocity Planetary Search HARPS (ESO, La Silla) Radial velocity search (several planets found) ongoing Hobby-Eberly Telescope Radial velocity search (several planets found) ongoing Hungarian Automated Telescope Network (HATNetwork) Transits (several planets found) ongoing Italian Search for Extraterrestrial Life (ITASEL) radio search ongoing Keck Interferometer Astrometry, Imaging under construction Large Binocular Telescope Imaging ongoing Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT) Lensing and Transits ongoing LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) Direct decametric detection project MACHO Lensing ongoing Magellan 6.5 m Telescope Radial velocity ongoing Mc Donald Observatory Radial velocity search (several planets found) ongoing MEarth transits ongoing Microlensing Planet Search Project (MPS) Lensing search (some planet candidates found) ongoing Mid-infrared E-ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) direct imaging project MIRLIN(JPL) Imaging ongoing MOA Lensing search (several planets found) ongoing MONET (MOnitoring NEtwork of Telescopes) Transits ongoing Nancay Decametric Search for Exoplanets Radio emission tests NK2 Consortium Radial Velocity Several planets found ongoing OGLE III Transits and lensing (several planet candidates found) ongoing Permanent All Sky Survey (PASS) Transits ongoing PHASES - The Palomar High-precision Astrometric Search for Exoplanet Systems. Astrometry (one planet candidate found) ongoing PIRATE Transits (several planets followed-up) Ongoing PISCES(Planets In Stellar Clusters Extensive Search) Transits ongoing PLANET Lensing search (several planets found) ongoing PLANETS (Polarized Light from Atmospheres of Nearby ExtraTerrestrial Systems) Spectro-polarimetric imaging project Precision Radial Velocity Spectrometer (PRVS) Radial velocity under study PRIMA-DDL (VLTI) Astrometry ongoing Pulsar Planet Detection (Penn. State Univ.) Pulsar timing (several planets found) ongoing Qatar Exoplanet Survey (QES) transits ongoing (one planet found) Radio Interferometric Planet Search (RIPL) Astrometry ongoing Robonet Lensing (several planets found) ongoing Search for Trojan Extrasolar Planets Photometry ongoing Sophie Radial velocity Several planets found ongoing Spectrashift.com Amateur radial velocity search (1 planet confirmed) ongoing SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric Imaging) Under construction Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Direct radio detection Under study STARE (STellar Astrophysics & Research on Exoplanets) Transit method (1 transit found) ongoing STELLA Transits under construction STEPS Astrometry ongoing (one planet found) Super WASP Search for transits Several planets found ongoing Survey for Transiting Extrasolar Planets in Stellar Systems (STEPSS) Transits ongoing Tennessee Automatic Photoelectric Telescope Transits (1 transit found) ongoing TEP (Transits of Extrasolar Planets) Transits closed The Antarctic Plateau Interferometer (API) Imaging project The Lyot Project Imaging ongoing TNG High Resolution Spectrograph(SARG) Radial velocity ongoing Transatlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES) Transits (several planets found) ongoing Transit Ephemeris Refinement and Monitoring Survey (TERMS) Transits TRansiting ExoplanetS and CAndidates (TRESCA) transits ongoing Transitsearch.org Transits ongoing TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope) Transits ongoing University of St. Andrews Planet Search (UStAPS) Lensing, transits ongoing UNSWEPS Project Transits ongoing UVES (ESO, Paranal) Radial velocity search operating Very Large Telescope Interferometer VLTI (ESO, Paranal) Astrometry and imaging under construction VIDA (Vlti Imaging with a Densified Array) ESO Imaging project Vulcain Camera Project Search for transits ongoing Vulcain South (Antarctic Planet Finder) Search for transits ongoing WHAT (Wise observatory Hungarian-made Automated Telescope) Transits ongoing XO Project Transits (several planets found) ongoing     Space BOSS (Big Occulting Steerable Satellite) Occultations project CoRoT (France - Europe - Brazil) Search for planetary transits (several planets found) ongoing CubeSat project ExoplanetSat Transits project Extrasolar Planet Observations and Characterization (EPOCh) Transits ongoing Fabra-ROA Camera Transits ongoing Gaia (ESA)    Gaia at ESTEC Astrometry, transits launch: 2013 GEST Lensing and transits. project HST Astrometry Astrometry (1 planet confirmed by astrometry) ongoing Hypertelescope projects (Haute Provence) Imaging project James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Infrared imaging and transits project (launch > 2018) KEPLER (NASA) Search for planetary transits (several planets found) ongoing MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations os STars) Canada photometry (reflected light) launched 30 June 2003 NEAT (Nearby Earth Astrometric Telescope) Astrometry project New Worlds Observer External occulter project Origins Billion Star Survey (OBSS) Astrometry under study OverSky Transits ongoing PECO (Pupil mapping Exoplanet Coronagraphic Observer) Direct imaging Under study Planet Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Rocket Experiment (PICTURE) under development Plato Asteroseismology and transits under study Space Infrared Interferometric Telescope (SPIRIT, NASA) Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy under study Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) Astrometric search project (launch 2009 - deferred) SPICES Spectro-Polarimetric Imaging and Characterization of Exo-planetary Systems direct imaging project Spitzer Space Telescope (NASA) Spizter Science Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy (thermal emission of several planets detected) ongoing Terrestrial Planet Finder (NASA) Visible and IR imaging and spectroscopy indefinitely delayed UMBRAS Coronography project