Planet Hunters Talk

Planetary Candidates from the First Year of the K2 Mission

  • zoo3hans by zoo3hans

    Also interesting I think:

    Planetary Candidates from the First Year of the K2 Mission
    (Andrew Vanderburg et al.)

    http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.07820

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  • ajamyajax by ajamyajax

    Also more nice papers to mention, and congrats to our fellow astronomy friends Martti and Daryll as well!

    "K2 Variable Catalogue II: Machine Learning Classification of Variable Stars and Eclipsing Binaries in K2 Fields 0-4"

    D. J. Armstrong, J. Kirk, K. W. F. Lam, J. McCormac, H. P. Osborn, J. Spake, S. Walker, D. J. A. Brown, M. H. Kristiansen, D. Pollacco, R. West, P. J. Wheatley

    http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01246

    "Zodiacal Exoplanets In Time (ZEIT) I: A Neptune-sized planet orbiting an M4.5 dwarf in the Hyades Star Cluster"

    "Andrew W. Mann, Eric Gaidos, Gregory N. Mace, Marshall C. Johnson, Brendan P. Bowler, Daryll LaCourse, Thomas L. Jacobs, Andrew Vanderburg, Adam L. Kraus, Kyle F. Kaplan, Daniel T. Jaffe"

    http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00483

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  • Martti_Holst_Kristiansen by Martti_Holst_Kristiansen

    Thank you Mark!

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  • ajamyajax by ajamyajax

    Also a new Planet Hunters paper to mention, congrats to all involved! And EXTRA THANKS to our Science Team who do most of the hard work so really appreciate your efforts.

    "Planet Hunters. VIII. Characterization of 41 Long-Period Exoplanet Candidates from Kepler Archival Data"

    Ji Wang, Debra A. Fischer, Thomas Barclay, Alyssa Picard, Bo Ma, Brendan P. Bowler, Joseph R. Schmitt, Tabetha S. Boyajian, Kian J. Jek, Daryll LaCourse, Christoph Baranec, Reed Riddle, Nicholas M. Law, Chris Lintott, Kevin Schawinski, Dean Joseph Simister, Boscher Gregoire, Sean P. Babin, Trevor Poile, Thomas Lee Jacobs, Tony Jebson, Mark R. Omohundro, Hans Martin Schwengeler, Johann Sejpka, Ivan A.Terentev, Robert Gagliano, Jari-Pekka Paakkonen, Hans Kristian Otnes Berge, Troy Winarski, Gerald R. Green, Allan R. Schmitt

    http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02559

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  • djsimister by djsimister

    ajamyajax
    Thanx for your congrats & Bigger thank you for actually posting this news on the new PH. Vlll paper. Personally been hoping and wishing on this particular positive publication news for ages..
    its my first. :~} now Christmas will be a little extra special as a result,
    & CONGRATULATIONS to all authors but special APPRECIATIONS & THANXXX to all you brilliant science team guys from me also. Ajamyajax has it absolutely spot on about you all & the unimaginable amount of hard work you obviously must do both individually & collectively do bring it all together. Just Amazing & exceptionally cool scientists all of you.
    XX

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  • ajamyajax by ajamyajax in response to djsimister's comment.

    Yes DJ, and congrats to you as a long-time volunteer and contributor for finally hitting the charts! I remember your free-spirited posts from the old days, and for some reason thought of Led Zeppelin's old song "Been a long time, since Rock and Roll..." Although not quite right perhaps, just thought you might appreciate the high-energy celebratory sentiment there. Rock on, DJ!

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  • djsimister by djsimister

    How Very positively perceptive, Your Zeppelin reference is actually a very true accurate associated fact, Always been a top 3 of my all time influentials. Now how could you have guessed such a thing?
    This tells me that you're not just a top drawer PH scientist you're an obvious psychic also? A perfect Combi in my opinion and the world could do with a few more people in it just like you. With this in mind, could you please pick & post me 6 random numbers between 0-49 for next Wednesdays UK lottery draw :~}
    I do very very much appreciate those really nice sentiments.
    Thank you again. You're Ace.

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  • ajamyajax by ajamyajax in response to djsimister's comment.

    Aw, just a guess about age and condition .. and attitude my friend! Sure glad you enjoyed the trip back in time though. Thank you also. And maybe try family birthday numbers that are not your own would be a safe play? Always better to give than receive as the old saying goes, especially around the holidays. So good luck and take care of them and enjoy life. That is the best way to win I can think of. : )

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  • Martti_Holst_Kristiansen by Martti_Holst_Kristiansen

    Congratulations everyone, it is great to see the paper published!

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  • ajamyajax by ajamyajax in response to ajamyajax's comment.

    Confirmed!

    "Planet Hunters. VIII. Characterization of 41 Long-Period Exoplanet Candidates from Kepler Archival Data"

    http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02559

    "We validate 7 planet candidates that have planet confidence over 0.997 (3-s level). These validated planets include 3 single-transit planets (KIC-3558849c, KIC-5951458b, and KIC-8540376d), 3 planets with double transits (KIC-8540376c, KIC-9663113c, and KIC-10525077b), and 1 planet with 4 transits (KIC-5437945c)"

    Newly confirmed planets: KIC 3558849 b (Kepler-455 b), KIC 5951458 b (Kepler-456 b), KIC 8540376 b & c (Kepler-457 b & c), KIC 9663113 b (Kepler-458 b), KIC 10525077 b (Kepler-459 b), KIC 5437945 b (Kepler-460 b)

    http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/exonews_archive.html#10Dec2015

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