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Geoff Marcy and Paul Butler

机译：杰夫·马西（Geoff Marcy）和保罗·巴特勒（Paul Butler）

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Thirteen state-of-the-art telescopes stand on Mauna Kea, the tallest mountain in the Pacific basin, looming over the island of Hawaii. By day the view from the peak is of a rich blue black sky. By night, the pitch darkness is studded with starry diamonds. At nearly 14,000 feet, the mountain offers an untainted view of the heavens that is in- creasingly rare in a lit-up world, a view that makes an astronomer's work a lot easier. Late on a Saturday night, Geoff Marcy and Paul Butler are hunched over computer monitors in an office 12,000 feet below the summit, in the nearby ranching town of Waimea. People turn in early here, but Marcy and Butler―who, in their 16 years of planet hunt- ing, have found 61 of the 77 planets outside our solar system that are recognized by astronomers―call themselves vampires. From 7 p.m. to 6 a.m., with the help of graduate student Jason Wright, they preside over a series of workmanlike photo shoots. Again and again they point Keck I, the world's largest telescope, at one of the stars on their hit list and shoot. They do this until they've captured the light of 100 or so stars that interest them. A spectrometer splits that light into its component colors from red to violet, generating a rainbow image so complex that it can be analyzed only by computer.
机译：13台最先进的望远镜耸立在太平洋盆地最高的山峰莫纳克亚山（Mauna Kea）上，笼罩着夏威夷岛。白天，从山顶看可以看到深蓝色的天空。到了晚上，漆黑的星光笼罩着漆黑的星空。在近14,000英尺的高处，这座山峦可一览无余的天空美景，在光亮的世界中，这种情况越来越少了，这种景色使天文学家的工作变得容易得多。周六深夜，杰夫·马西（Geoff Marcy）和保罗·巴特勒（Paul Butler）在附近放牧的威美亚（Waimea）镇上，在山顶下方12,000英尺的办公室里被计算机显示器所弯腰。人们早早来到这里，但是马西（Marcy）和巴特勒（Butler）在他们16年的行星狩猎过程中，发现了太阳系之外的77个行星中有61个被天文学家认可，他们称自己为吸血鬼。从晚上7点开始到凌晨6点，在研究生杰森·赖特（Jason Wright）的帮助下，他们主持了一系列工匠般的照片拍摄。他们一次又一次地将世界上最大的望远镜Keck I指向其命中名单上的一颗恒星，并进行射击。他们这样做直到捕获了大约100颗令他们感兴趣的恒星的光。光谱仪将光分成红色到紫色的各种颜色，生成彩虹图像，非常复杂，只能由计算机进行分析。

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