Planet Hunters TESS II: results from the first two years
We have some very exciting news: our paper summarising the results from the first two years of Planet Hunters TESS has been accepted for...
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- Oct 22, 2020
- 1 min
Light curve of the week: RR Lyrae
The above light curve, with its periodic increase and decrease in brightness, has the clear signature of an RR Lyrae stars. The...
- May 28, 2020
- 1 min
Lightcurve of the week: reflection effect EB
This week we have an exotic EB, explained to us by Dr. Cole Johnston, where the primary star is a subdwarf which is the stripped...
- Apr 30, 2020
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W-shaped dips in M-dwarf lightcurves
Planet Hunters TESS users have identified two very interesting lightcurves of M-dwarf stars that show repeating patterns that are...
- Apr 23, 2020
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A circumbinary Planet from TESS, with the help of Planet Hunters TESS
A new paper released this week and accepted by the Astronomical Journal (https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07783) announced the discovery of...
- Apr 9, 2020
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Light curve of the week: EB
Many stars are not alone, but instead form part of a multi-stellar system of two or more stars that are gravitationally bound together....
- Mar 26, 2020
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Light curve(s) of the week: asteroid
Asteroids are small rocky bodies that are left over from the time of the formation of the Solar System. They range in sizes from small...
- Mar 12, 2020
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Light curve of the week: YSO?
The pattern seen in this light curve could be due to the variability of a young stellar object (YSO), which is often related to a disc...
- Mar 5, 2020
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Light curve of the week
Some stars are quiet, Some stars pulsate, Some stars are single, Some have a mate. This is a pulsating star in a binary system. Thank you...
- Feb 27, 2020
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Light curve of the week: tidally distorted EB
This week we have an EB where the two stars get so close to one another that their gravitational pull distorts their shapes, changing it...
- Feb 20, 2020
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Light curve of the week
The light curve of TIC 394177355 was already flagged by the Kepler team (KOI-3156) when it was observed back in 2015. It shows a...
- Feb 13, 2020
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Light curve of the week
This week we have a beautiful Delta Scuti variable that shows both primary and secondary eclipses caused by a second star. The beat-like...
- Feb 6, 2020
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Light curve of the week
This is a light curve of an eclipsing binary with some strange out-of-transit-variability. The transit depths suggest that there is one...
- Feb 5, 2020
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Searching for Disks
In addition to planets, there are many other interesting and unexplained systems to be found within the TESS data. Professor Matthew...
- Jan 30, 2020
- 1 min
Light curve of the week
This beautiful dwarf nova has so far been observed by TESS in all of the northern hemisphere observational sectors released to date...
- Jan 27, 2020
- 3 min
Exploring the impact of Planet Hunters: key findings
Dr. Annaleise Depper (Evaluation Officer, Public Engagement with Research) at the University of Oxford shares the results and findings...
- Jan 23, 2020
- 2 min
Light curve of the week
TESS looks at thousands of stars every night providing us with some of the most beautiful, strange and mysterious light curves. Here is...
- Dec 19, 2019
- 2 min
Planet Hunters TESS Mobile: swipe right for planets
It has been an extremely exciting year for Planter Hunters TESS and we have identified multiple potential new planetary systems. Due to...
- Dec 6, 2019
- 2 min
Happy Birthday PHT!
It has been exactly a year since the first public TESS data release and the launch of Planet Hunters TESS! Thank you to everyone who has...
- Nov 28, 2019
- 3 min
Reach for the Stars
Like many of you, I am extremely eager to find those tiny, elusive dips in the TESS lightcurves that reveal the existence of a distant,...
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