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Comets or Aliens?
Let’s deal with the big question first. Has Planet Hunters discovered aliens? The answer is no. But that doesn’t mean that all of the...
Oct 16, 20153 min read


Extracted Lightcurves From Vanderburg & Johnson (2014) Now Available at MAST
A new MAST High Level Science Product from K2 has been delivered that includes extracted lightcurves. Courtesy of Vanderburg & Johnson...
Mar 24, 20151 min read
This is Not a Simulation
When someone tries to explain the concept of planet transits, you often see simulated graphics like the one below: Well James Gilbert...
Mar 24, 20141 min read


Planet Hunters at Girls Do Hack
Today we have a guest post by Lauren Kelly. Lauren is an Educator for STEM Student Experiences at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, IL,...
Nov 27, 20131 min read


Starspots and Transits
There was a great question about transits in response to my post about “What Factors Impact Transit Shape” so I thought I’d answer in a...
Feb 11, 20133 min read


What factors impact transit shape
I’m rewriting the simulation code I use for making simulated transits and injecting them into Kepler light curves from a program...
Jan 21, 20133 min read


The Road to Characterizing PH1: The Overview
Haven Giguere/Yale It’s been an exciting week for exoplanets with the discovery of PH1 and the discovery of an Earth-mass planet around...
Oct 19, 20125 min read
Turning a planet candidate into a bona fide planet
Today we have a guest post by Tom Barclay, Tom is a member of the Kepler team and also a collaborator and co-author on our second Planet...
Jun 8, 20126 min read


Closer to Home
As I write this blog post, the transit of Venus is ongoing, with Venus finishing its slow march across the face of the Sun in less than...
Jun 6, 20124 min read


The Transit of Venus and the Scale of the Universe
I’ll start by introducing myself as I’m not involved in Planethunters, but Meg asked me if I could write an article for you here about...
May 28, 20127 min read


Examples of Data Processing Glitches in Q3
Now that we’re in the thick of Quarter 3, there’s new data glitches popping up in the data unique to Quarter 3. Below are some examples...
Dec 26, 20111 min read


Przykłady problemów z danymi w trzecim kwartale
Przeglądając dane z trzeciego kwartału (Q3), można natknąć się na kilka nowych, niespotykanych wcześniej problemów z danymi. Poniżej...
Dec 26, 20111 min read


Adaptive Optics Follow-up Observations
Today’s blog post come’s from guest blogger Justin Crepp, co-author on our first Planet Hunters paper. Justin is an expert in adaptive...
Sep 26, 20112 min read
Multi-transiting Planet Systems Part II
Today’s post is part two completing the series by guest blogger Darin Ragozzine. Darin is a Caltech Ph.D. and currently a postdoc at the...
Jul 27, 20115 min read
Multi-transiting Planet Systems Part I
Today’s post is part one of a two part series by guest blogger by Darin Ragozzine. He’ll be talking about multi-planet transiting...
Jul 20, 20114 min read
Update on Planet Candidate Follow-up
I wanted to give you all a quick update of what the team has been doing in regards to the interesting possible multiple system Chris...
Jun 21, 20111 min read


May 11, 20110 min read
Should you mark it as a transit?
A question that comes up regularly on Talk is whether you should mark something as a potential transit. A lot of people are apprehensive...
May 9, 20111 min read


Inverse Transits
I was talking to last week’s seminar speaker, and we were talking about Planet Hunters and some of the things that might be lurking in...
Apr 30, 20112 min read


Transit Fitting
By Charlie Sharzer. Charlie is an undergraduate at Yale working on model fitting the PH planet candidates to estimate their radii and...
Apr 25, 20112 min read
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