ESO has made available a QuickTime (and iPod) video discussing the discovery of planet 581c. It's at:
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2007/vid-22-07.html
Warning: the video is very large (64MB QuickTime/17MB iPod). We'll let you know if we find a more compressed version or a local mirror site.
Some highlights from ESO's video:
- It contains interviews with HARPS principal investigator Michael Mayor and lead author Stephane Udry, both from the Geneva Observatory, so you can see what these two people are like.
- It also provides an animation which illustrates how 581c was detected using the radial-velocity method.
The video runs about 4 and a half minutes.
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