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Besides hunting from transits in a specific patch of sky, IRVEES has another goal: confirm more planets around nearby stars by Direct Imaging. I have picked out 10 target stars all within 15 light-years from Earth, but a popular and mysterious star in that group is Lalande 21185. PROJECT LALANDE With Project Lalande, the IRVEES program will use a variety of detection methods to pick up any planets. It will mostly use Direct Imaging with large scopes and a coronagraph, but the transit method can be used for other observations. There have been multiple other searches for planetary companions around Lalande 21185. In the early 1950's through 60's, Peter van de Kamp and his student Sarah Lippincott made multiple claims for finding planets via photographic plates. These claims were blown out of the water in 1974. Over 20 years later, in 1996, George Gatewood made the claim of finding more planets via astrometry. This was also proven to be a mistake. Since then, there have not been many other searches. Project Lalande takes on this challenge in a different way. Instead of using the classic radial velocity method or the confusing astrometry, this search will take images of the system. Why not radial velocity? Well, other scientists like Geoff Marcy have shown that the RV of Lalande 21185 is "stable," meaning that there aren't many or any large planets, and little stellar activity. Imaging will be easier on Lalande 21185 because of its size and close distance. When the search begins, small coronagraphs will be distributed. How I will make and distribute them is still on the drawing board. But these instruments will be able to block out Lalande 21185 while exposing regions closer to the star. See the main IRVEES thread for instructions on direct imaging. Those same steps will be used for Project Lalande. MEMBERS: @ProtoJeb21 STATUS: NOT ACTIVE YET DATA: -None Yet-
