Artie P. Hatzes is an American

United States

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 astronomer

Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...

. He is a professor at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and director of the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory

Karl Schwarzschild Observatory

The Karl-Schwarzschild-Observatorium is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the institute of Thüringer Landessternwarte ’Karl Schwarzschild’ Tautenburg. In 1992 it was acquired by the state of Thuringia...

 (Thuringian State Observatory).

Hatzes is a pionier in the search of extrasolar planet

Extrasolar planet

An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet outside the Solar System. A total of such planets have been identified as of . It is now known that a substantial fraction of stars have planets, including perhaps half of all Sun-like stars...

s and is working on the COROT

Corot

Corot may refer to:* Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French landscape painter * COROT, a space mission with the dual aims of finding extrasolar planets and performing asteroseismology* COROT-7, a dwarf star in the Monoceros constellation...

 space mission. His achievements have included discovering the extrasolar planets Pollux b

Pollux b

Pollux b, also known as Beta Geminorum b and HD 62509 b, is an extrasolar planet approximately 34 light-years away in the constellation of Gemini . This planet was discovered orbiting the star Pollux in 2006. The planet has a comparable mass to the gas giants in our solar system...

, Epsilon Eridani b

Epsilon Eridani b

Epsilon Eridani b is an unconfirmed extrasolar planet approximately 10 light-years away orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, in the constellation of Eridanus .- Discovery :...

 and HD 13189

HD 13189

HD 13189 is an 8th magnitude star in Triangulum constellation. It is an orange bright giant star located 603 light years away. The mass is 3.5 times the Sun, which indicated that it was a B-type star when it was a main-sequence star...

 companion.
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