Tags: Planet.

PARAS is a ground based extrasolar planet search device. Based at 1.2m telescope is located at Mt. Abu India.The project is funded by Physical Research LaboratoryIndia. The spectrograph works at a resolution of 67000. With the help of simultaneous calibration technique PARAS has achieved an RV accuracy of 1.3m/s for bright sun like quiet stars. Thorium-Argon lamp is used for calibration. New calibration techniques are also being explored by the project team.

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