DIVISION F COMMISSION 53: EXTRASOLAR PLANETS

The IAU Working Group on Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) was created by the Executive Council as a Working Group of Division III. This decision took place in June 1999, that is only 7 years after the discovery of planets around the pulsar PSR B1257+12 and 4 years after the discovery of 51 Peg b. This working group was renewed for 3 years at the General Assembly in 2003 in Sydney, Australia. It was chaired by Alan Boss from Carnegie Institution of Washington. The WGESP members were Paul Butler, William Hubbard, Philip Ianna, Martin Kürster, Jack Lissauer, Michel Mayor, Karen Meech, Francois Mignard, Alan Penny, Andreas Quirrenbach, Jill Tarter, and Alfred Vidal-Madjar.

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Working Group on Extrasolar Planets

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s1743921306004509 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 1 (T26A) ◽

pp. 183-186 ◽

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Author(s):

Alan P. Boss ◽

R. Paul Butler ◽

William B. Hubbard ◽

Philip A. Ianna ◽

Martin Kürster ◽

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Keyword(s):

International Research ◽

Working Group ◽

Extrasolar Planets ◽

Focal Point ◽

General Assembly ◽

Executive Council ◽

Division Iii

The Working Group on Extrasolar Planets (hereafter the WGESP) was created at a meeting of the IAU Executive Council in 1999 as a Working Group of IAU Division III and was renewed for three more years at the IAU General Assembly in 2003. The charge of the WGESP is to act as a focal point for international research on extrasolar planets. The membership of the WGESP has remained unchanged for the last three years.

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Nomenclature Scheme in use by the WGESP and a Current List of Extrasolar Planets

Highlights of Astronomy ◽

10.1017/s1539299600017974 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 13 ◽

pp. 1008-1010

Author(s):

Jill C. Tarter

Keyword(s):

International Research ◽

Working Group ◽

Extrasolar Planets ◽

Focal Point ◽

General Assembly ◽

Division Iii ◽

Current List ◽

A Current

At the IAU General Assembly in 2000, the Working Group on Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) was established as a working group of Division III. Its terms of reference include acting as a focal point for international research on extra solar planets and organizing IAU activities in the field, such as, organizing comparative reviews of techniques used to detect extra-solar planets and establishing criteria for detections of varying degrees of certainty, as well as maintaining lists of objects satisfying these criteria. The committee is chaired by Alan Boss, and the current members are; Paul Butler, William Hubbard, Philip Ianna, Martin Kiirster, Jack Lissauer, Michel Mayor, Karen Meech, Francois Mignard, Alan Penny, Andreas Quirrenbach, Jill Tarter, and Alfred Vidal-Madjar.

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COMMISSION 53: EXTRASOLAR PLANETS

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s1743921308025465 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 4 (T27A) ◽

pp. 181-182

Author(s):

Michel Mayor ◽

Alan P. Boss ◽

Paul R. Butler ◽

William B. Hubbard ◽

Philip A. Ianna ◽

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Keyword(s):

Working Group ◽

Extrasolar Planets ◽

Theoretical Work ◽

Vice President ◽

The Other ◽

Type Star ◽

Extrasolar Planet ◽

General Assembly ◽

Solar Type ◽

Solar Type Star

Commission 53 on Extrasolar Planets was created at the 2006 Prague General Assembly of the IAU, in recognition of the outburst of astronomical progress in the field of extrasolar planet discovery, characterization, and theoretical work that has occurred since the discovery of the pulsar planets in 1992 and the discovery of the first planet in orbit around a solar-type star in 1995. Commission 53 is the logical successor to the IAU Working Group on Extrasolar Planets WG-ESP, which ended its six years of existence in August 2006. The founding president of Commission 53 is Michael Mayor, in honor of his seminal contributions to this new field of astronomy. The vice-president is Alan Boss, the former chair of the WG-ESP, and the members of the Commission 53 Organizing Committee are the other former members of the WG-ESP.

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