What we have found to date:
- Astrometric binaries
- Barnard's star planets (photographic, HST)
- Proxima Centauri (fritz benedict (UT) HST results)
- LHS 1047, LHS 1070, Gl105, et al.
- Pulsar planets
- PSR 1257+12 (Alexander Wolszczan, Penn State)
3 objects, masses > 0.015 E, 3.4 E, and 2.8 E
- PSR B0329+54 (Tatiana Shabanova, Lebedev Physical Inst,
Moscow)
18 milliseconds, P ~ 17 yrs, mass > 2 E, a > 7.3 au
- Field BD's
- GD 165B
- all very cool M dwarfs?
- Gl 229 - best case yet
- AO coronograph detection
- v.v.red companion 7 arcsec from M primary
- spectrum shows methane and water [fig]
- T < 1000 deg K, mass ~ 0.04 - 0.055 S
- 296A (Jones, Thakerah, Hawkins), dwarf with Li
- Cluster BD's (age is known)
- PPL 15 (John Stauffer, SAO) Li detected [fig]
- Teide 1 (Rafaelo Rebolo, Canary Is) Li detected
- Stellar disks
Vega,
Beta Pictoris
- Velocity meter results
- 51 Pegasi
Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva) - amp ~51 m/s
Geoff Marcy and Paul Butler (SFSU) confirmation
P = 4.229+/-0.001 d, e = 0.01 +/- 0.01, mass > 0.46 +/- 0.01 J
(but David Gray.. ..)
- 70 Virginis
Marcy and Butler - amplitude 11 m/s
P = 3.02 yrs, e ~ 0, mass > 2.3 J
- 47 Ursa Majoris
Marcy and Butler
P = 116 d, e = 0.38, mass > 6.5 J
- and more.. . .