Comments for Planet Hunters http://blog.planethunters.org A Zooniverse Project Blog Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:32:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Modern Statistical and Computational Methods for Analysis of Kepler Data by Meg http://blog.planethunters.org/2013/06/11/modern-statistical-and-computational-methods-for-analysis-of-kepler-data/#comment-5335 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:32:46 +0000 http://blog.planethunters.org/?p=4214#comment-5335 Unfortunately, it’s a closed workshop. But if we make any progress I’m sure we’ll blog about it.
~Meg

]]> Comment on Modern Statistical and Computational Methods for Analysis of Kepler Data by Padma A. Yanamandra-Fisher http://blog.planethunters.org/2013/06/11/modern-statistical-and-computational-methods-for-analysis-of-kepler-data/#comment-5332 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:50:59 +0000 http://blog.planethunters.org/?p=4214#comment-5332 How can we participate in the workshop?

]]> Comment on Direct Imaging of Planets by Lowest mass exoplanet discovered via direct imaging | astrobites http://blog.planethunters.org/2012/03/30/direct-imaging-of-planets/#comment-5321 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 05:45:20 +0000 http://blogs.zooniverse.org/planethunters/?p=2489#comment-5321 […] newly discovered planet, HD 95086 b, is the lowest mass exoplanet to be discovered using direct imaging, the exoplanet discovery technique that takes an image of the planet by blocking out the light from […]

]]> Comment on Stargazing Final Results by Planet Four | Orbiting Frog http://blog.planethunters.org/2012/01/18/stargazing-final-results/#comment-5305 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:43:57 +0000 http://blogs.zooniverse.org/planethunters/?p=2318#comment-5305 […] year the Zooniverse asked the Stargazing Live viewers to find an exoplanet via Planet Hunters (and they did!). This year we want everyone to scour the surface of Mars on our brand new site: Planet […]

]]> Comment on Thoughts on the (possible) death of Kepler by pablo2758 http://blog.planethunters.org/2013/05/15/thoughts-on-the-possible-death-of-kepler/#comment-5216 Sat, 25 May 2013 05:51:21 +0000 http://blog.planethunters.org/?p=4189#comment-5216 Geez, thats the SADDEST comparison ever! :) as if we werent already sad enough about it, please give us a break :) (but I know what you mean, anyway, its a good thing machines are not programmed to feel pain, yet :P

]]> Comment on A Planet Hunters Review of the Kepler Transit Candidate List by An Update on the TCE Review: Nearly Half Way There! | Planet Hunters http://blog.planethunters.org/2013/05/02/a-planet-hunters-review-of-the-kepler-transit-candidate-list/#comment-5213 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:17:01 +0000 http://blog.planethunters.org/?p=4124#comment-5213 […] This  side project is to do our own Planet Hunters review of the ~18,000 potential transit events, dubbed Threshold Crossing Events or TCEs, identified by the Kepler team’s automated computer algorithms during a search of the first ~3 years of Kepler data. The majority are false detections, but a few are real transits due to orbiting exoplanets. A subset of the Kepler team examine the TCE list and whittle it down to make the Kepler planet candidate list. These newly released TCEs have yet to fully searched by the Kepler team, meaning there are likely discoveries waiting to be found. We have launched a Planet Hunters review of the Kepler TCEs to identify new planet candidates. For each TCE, you’ll be presented with a light curve that has been zoomed-in and folded so that the repeat transits all line up on top of each other. With the folded light curves we can see smaller planets, the rocky ones that are so hard for most of us to see in the regular light curves we show on the main Planet Hunters website. We think Planet Hunters has an advantage in the ability to review the entire TCE list (with your help) and identify not just the rocky planet transits but also the Jupiter-sized and in between. You can learn more  about the TCE list and the TCE Review by reading the launch blog post. […]

]]> Comment on Thoughts on the (possible) death of Kepler by Corentin http://blog.planethunters.org/2013/05/15/thoughts-on-the-possible-death-of-kepler/#comment-5212 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:39:26 +0000 http://blog.planethunters.org/?p=4189#comment-5212 I feels like a familiar animal has a broken leg and is left alone out of our reach.

Even if the job is done, It’s sad.

]]> Comment on Thoughts on the (possible) death of Kepler by John Murrell http://blog.planethunters.org/2013/05/15/thoughts-on-the-possible-death-of-kepler/#comment-5211 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:34:13 +0000 http://blog.planethunters.org/?p=4189#comment-5211 CoRoT is also dead I beleive – the photometry instrument failed last November and there is no information on their being able to restart it so no more data from that source either. We will just have to rely on the spectroscopic redshift measurements for new data. Of course there should be more discoveries from the archived Keplar data as well.

]]> Comment on Quiet Stars (examples) by StellarLion http://blog.planethunters.org/2010/12/25/quiet-stars-examples/#comment-5202 Wed, 22 May 2013 01:17:43 +0000 http://blogs.zooniverse.org/planethunters/?p=194#comment-5202 This definately helps! At least I know now that I misidentified some photon noise as transits when I first joined this.

]]> Comment on Live Chat Today by Save the Date: The Next Planet Hunters Live Chat | Planet Hunters http://blog.planethunters.org/2013/05/20/live-chat-today/#comment-5196 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:57:23 +0000 http://blog.planethunters.org/?p=4193#comment-5196 […] /8 am PDT/3pm GMT  to talk about Planet Hunters science and news.  You can find the video feed  here or you’ll also be able to find us on the Zooniverse Google+ […]

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