Fiber-optic Improved Next-generation Doppler Search for Exo-Earths

The Fiber-Optic Improved Next-Generation Doppler Search for Exo-Earths (FINDS Exo-Earths) is a radial-velocity spectrograph developed by Debra Fischer. It is installed on the 3 m telescope in Lick Observatory in Mount Hamilton. It has been in operation since 2009 and is being used to verify exoplanet candidates found by Kepler.

At Yale University, Debra Fischer and Julien Spronck, along with Geoff Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, set out to improve existing spectrograph technologies. Spurred by a $45,000 grant from The Planetary Society, the team built FINDS, a spectrograph add-on device.^[1]

See also

• Anglo-Australian Planet Search or AAPS is another southern hemisphere planet search program.
• CORALIE spectrograph is a similar instrument.
• ELODIE spectrograph is the precursor instrument.
• ESPRESSO is a new-generation spectrograph for ESO's VLT.
• HARPS is a similar instrument in La Silla.
• List of extrasolar planets
• SOPHIE échelle spectrograph is a similar instrument.

References

Exoplanet search projects Ground-based AAPS APF CORALIE EAPSNet ELODIE EPICS ESPRESSO FINDS Exo-Earths Geneva HARPS HARPS-N GPI HATNet HEK HiCIAO HIRES KELT LCES Magellan MARVELS MEarth MicroFUN MOA N2K NGTS NESSI OGLE OPSP PlanetPol PlanetQuest Project 1640 PARAS SEEDS SETI SOPHIE SPHERE SuperWASP Systemic TrES XO Telescope ZIMPOL/CHEOPS Space missions Past and current MOST (2003–present) SWEEPS (2006) COROT (2006–2013) EPOXI (2008–2013) Kepler (2009–present) KOI exoplanets Gaia (2013–present) Planned CHEOPS (2017) TESS (2017) James Webb Space Telescope (2018) PLATO (2024) Proposed ATLAST EXCEDE FINESSE New Worlds Mission PEGASE WFIRST-AFTA Cancelled Darwin EChO Eddington Space Interferometry Mission Terrestrial Planet Finder Detection methods Discoveries of exoplanets Lists of exoplanets