Artie Hatzes
Artie Hatzes (born May 24, 1957 in Havre de Grace , Maryland , USA ) is an American professor of astrophysics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and director of the Thuringian State Observatory in Tautenburg .
Hatzes has Greek roots, his father shortened the family name from Hatzigeorgios to Hatzes. His family moved to Fort Worth soon after he was born . Before his appointment to the University of Jena, Hatzes worked at the McDonald Observatory .
Hatzes is considered to be one of the pioneers in the search for exoplanets and is involved in the COROT space telescope mission . He has been researching this area since 1998 and has established the radial velocity method when searching at the State Observatory.
Hatzes discovered the exoplanets Pollux b , Epsilon Eridani b and the companion around HD 13189 . In addition, together with a COROT colleague, he determined the mass of CoRoT-7c , which at 4.8 Earth masses held the record for the exoplanet with the lowest mass at the time.
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- ↑ corot.de: News from September 16, 2009
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| SURNAME | Hatzes, Artie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Havre de Grace , Maryland , USA |