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...
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- Mar 24, 2015
- 1 min
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, 2014
- 1 min
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...
- Nov 27, 2013
- 1 min
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,...
- Feb 11, 2013
- 3 min
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...
- Jan 21, 2013
- 3 min
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...
- Oct 18, 2012
- 5 min
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...
- Jun 8, 2012
- 6 min
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 6, 2012
- 4 min
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...
- May 28, 2012
- 7 min
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...
- Dec 26, 2011
- 1 min
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, 2011
- 1 min
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...
- Sep 26, 2011
- 2 min
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...
- Jul 27, 2011
- 5 min
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 20, 2011
- 4 min
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...
- Jun 21, 2011
- 1 min
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...
- May 11, 2011
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- May 9, 2011
- 1 min
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...
- Apr 30, 2011
- 2 min
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 25, 2011
- 2 min
Transit Fitting
By Charlie Sharzer. Charlie is an undergraduate at Yale working on model fitting the PH planet candidates to estimate their radii and...
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