Planet Hunters Talk

Discontinuous jumps

  • BoJoalo by BoJoalo

    I have come across several curves that display significant discontinuous jumps. For some of the stars, the light curve is trending downward at the beginning and then there is a big discontinuous jump in brightness after which the downward trend (almost similar slope to the trend before the jump) continues. Does anyone know what the jumps are? Are they just caused by a glitch in the telescope or is there something more?

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