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Ge, J.; van Eyken, J.; Mahadevan, S.; DeWitt, C.; Cohen, R.; Vanden Heuvel, A.; Fleming, S.; Guo, P.; Kane, S.; Henry, G.; Israelian, G.; Martin, E.
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American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, #191.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1487
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We report the first extrasolar planet, ET1, detected with a new
generation Doppler instrument, called Exoplanet Tracker. This planet has
a minimum mass of 0.41 Jupiter masses and orbits a V = 8.1 K0V star with
a 4.8 day period. The planet was identified using the KPNO Coude Feed
0.9 meter telescope in spring 2005. This is the first time an extrasolar
planet around a star fainter than V=8 magnitude has been discovered with
an under 1 meter size astronomical telescope and Doppler instrument.
This planet discovery is possible due to the extremely high throughput
of the instrument, nearly 50% measured from the fiber output end to the
detector.
This discovery enables a new generation radial-velocity survey that
could detect thousands of exoplanets using multiple-object versions of
the ET instruments, called the W.M. Keck Exoplanet Tracker, at large
wide-field telescopes in 2006-2020. A prototype multiple object ET has
already demonstrated a 25 object capability for precision Doppler
measurements at the Sloan telescope in early 2005. The ET instrument
design is based on dispersed fixed-delay interferometry (Ge 2002), which
is evolved from the earlier externally dispersed interferometry (Erskine
and Ge 2000; Ge, Erskine and Rushford 2002) and the Global Oscillation
Net Work (GONG) interferometry (Barker & Hollenbach 1972; Gorskii
& Lebedev 1977; Beckers & Brown 1978; Harvey et al., 1988;
Harvey 2002 private communications).
We acknowledge the excellent support from the KPNO and Sloan management,
technical and observational staff. The ET project is supported by the
University of Florida, NSF, Keck Foundation and NASA JPL (Michelson
Fellowship Program).