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.[1] This survey uses the radial velocity method to search for extrasolar planets.[2]
The survey eventually switched its main focus to detecting long-period Jupiter analogs.[3]
This survey has announced the discovery of 28 planetary objects as of February 2014, including three multi-planet systems.
| Planet | Date announced | |
|---|---|---|
| Quijote | 3 December 2000 | |
| 3 December 2000 | ||
| 3 December 2000 | ||
| Oct 2001 | ||
| Oct 2001 | ||
| Oct 2001 | ||
| 13 June 2002 | ||
| 13 June 2002 | ||
| 13 June 2002 | ||
| 13 June 2002 | ||
| 13 June 2002 | ||
| 13 June 2002 | ||
| 17 September 2002 | ||
| 4 July 2003 | ||
| 15 September 2004 | ||
| 15 September 2004 | ||
| 15 September 2004 | ||
| Dulcinea | 15 September 2004 | |
| 15 September 2004 | ||
| 1 June 2006 | ||
| 1 June 2006 | ||
| 10 August 2006 | ||
| 7 February 2007 | ||
| 7 February 2007 | ||
| 7 February 2007 | ||
| 1 September 2008 | ||
| 23 February 2009 | ||
| 22 January 2014 |