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EAS Publications Series
Volume 14, 2005
Dome C Astronomy and Astrophysics Meeting
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Page(s) | 297 - 302 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:2005047 | |
Published online | 05 January 2006 |
M. Giard, F. Casoli and F. Paletou (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 14 (2005) 297-302
PLANET III: searching for Earth-mass planets via microlensing from Dome C?
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Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, 98bis Boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris, France
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Universität Potsdam, Astrophysik, Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Germany
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Univ. of Canterbury, Dept. of Astronomy, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Univ. of Notre Dame, Dept. of Physics, 225 Nieuwland Science Hall Notre Dame, USA
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European Southern Observatory, Casilla 19001, Vitacura 19, Santiago, Chile
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University of Texas, McDonald Observatory, Fort Davis, TX 79734, USA
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Dept. Physics/Boyden Obs., University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
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Lawrence Livermore National Lab., PO Box 808, Livermore, CA 94551-0808, USA
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DSM/DAPNIA, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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Univ. of St. Andrews, North Haugh, St. Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK
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Technical Univ. of Vienna, Dept. of Computing, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 10, Vienna, Austria
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Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, UMR 5572, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
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Univ. of Tasmania, Physics Department, GPO 252C, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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Niels Bohr Inst., Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Perth Observatory, Walnut Road, Bickley, Perth 6076, Australia
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South African Astronomical Observatory, PO Box 9 Observatory 7935, South Africa
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Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
PLANET, the Probing Lensing Anomaly NETwork, is an international team conducting observations of on-going gravitational microlensing events from five sites in the southern hemisphere. Our primary goal is to detect or to put constraints on sub-stellar companions of M dwarfs from the galactic disk. We report the current status and discuss the future prospects. A 2 m robotic telescope at Dome C which would benefit from continuous coverage and dream like seeing (median of 0.27 arcsec) is currently the best option for a ground based aggressive search for Earth-mass planets in the habitable zone.
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