First Results from Planet Hunters: Exploring the Inventory of Short Period Planets from Kepler

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1226l&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1226

Computer Science

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We present the first results and planet candidates from Planet Hunters, part of the Zooniverse collection of citizen science projects. [3,4]. Planet Hunters enlists more than 40,000 members of the general public to visually identify transits in the publicly released Kepler data via the World Wide Web in order to provide a completely independent assessment of planet frequencies derived from the Kepler light curves. We examine the abundance of large planets (> 2 earth radii) on short period (< 15 days) orbits based on Planet Hunters detections for the first 33.5 days of the Kepler mission, and highlight a selection of planet candidates.

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