Planet Hunters In The News

Please post any news articles, programmes or blogs where Planet Hunters gets a mention.

Posted September 29, 2014 10:09 PM

Link to "Planet Hunters In The News" in Old Talk
Link here

Posted September 29, 2014 10:10 PM

Ideas for Citizen Science in Astronomy, by Philip J. Marshall, Chris J. Lintott, and Leigh N. Fletcher; v1 preprint arXiv:1409.4291.

In addition to being mentioned in the "Crowd-sourced Classification in Astronomy"/"Time domain astronomy" sections, PH has a subsection to itself in "Citizen Led Enquiry": "Lightcurve analysis on Planet Hunters Talk". And there's an indirect mention of the thought leadership of PH in the Conclusions section:

Indeed, the most dedicated volunteers have proved capable of developing and using fairly advanced astronomical techniques, suggesting that we are likely to continue to see increasing numbers of citizens co-authoring papers in high impact research journals. While not everyone who takes part in a project wants to move to more advanced work, providing the opportunity to do so is important.

Feedback has been requested, but today is the last day (deadline was extended from 26 to 30 September): "We invite feedback via github issues at this http URL"

Posted September 30, 2014 1:56 PM

by Martti_Holst_Kristiansen in response to JeanTate's comment.

Is 'as' duplicated intentionally? (page 39 in the following section):

"For Galaxy Zoo, the forum had served this purpose but, as as the
project matured, participation in discussions became restricted to a small and
decreasing fraction of the community"

Posted September 30, 2014 4:30 PM

by arvintan

Online Amateurs Feed Their Science and History Addictions, on NBC News

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/online-amateurs-feed-their-science-history-addictions-n223291

Posted October 18, 2014 3:11 PM

by mschwamb scientist in response to arvintan's comment.

Nice interview Arvin.

Cheers,
~Meg

Posted October 19, 2014 9:52 AM

by zoo3hans

Kepler-64b is PH-1b: http://shop.heise.de/katalog/space-weltraum-magazin-06-2014

Posted October 19, 2014 8:02 PM

by DZM admin

Excellent press, @arvintan ! Thank you for sharing! 😃

I wish I could read the page that @zoo3hans shared, too, but I have no German... Could someone please translate the important parts?

Posted October 20, 2014 3:17 PM

by arvintan

@mschwamb and @DZM

Thanks. Anything for the PH community. 😄

Posted October 20, 2014 4:43 PM

by ajamyajax

Kepler-289 d now officially a planet. Many thanks to Joseph Schmitt, the entire Science Team, and the Expert Contributors for making this happen.

11/20/2014 news:
"Six added planets: We welcome Kepler-289 d, Kepler-430 b, Kepler-430 c, Kepler-431 b, Kepler-431 c and Kepler-431 d to the fold. Note that Kepler-289 d is published as PH3 c. View them all in the Confirmed Planets interactive table."

http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/exonews_archive.html

Posted November 21, 2014 4:34 PM

by Martti_Holst_Kristiansen in response to ajamyajax's comment.

Great work, congratulation Mark.

Posted November 23, 2014 10:13 PM

by ajamyajax

Nice new paper from our PH friends on K2 EB's and more... Congrats!

"Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars. VI. Identification of Eclipsing Binaries in the K2 Campaign 0 Data-set"

Daryll M. LaCourse, Kian J. Jek, Thomas L. Jacobs, Troy Winarski, Tabetha S. Boyajian, Saul A. Rappaport, Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda, Kyle E. Conroy, Lorne Nelson, Tom Barclay, Debra A. Fischer, Joseph R. Schmitt, Ji Wang, Andrej Prša, Keivan G. Stassun, Joshua Pepper, Jeffrey L. Coughlin, Avi Shporer

http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01829

Posted March 10, 2015 4:10 PM

by Grosser123

Hey Guys,

i am new here.
what do ya think about 1115.43-1119.43.
Zooniverse Id APH0000kbj, Kepler Id, 9631995, Quarter 1-2, agnitude10.822

are These enough coordinates to identify this star.

Posted October 16, 2015 7:52 PM

by djsimister

KIC 8462852 is back! getting a lot of attention currently. Originally highlighted and embellished by our very own planet hunter scientists (The special ones!) This article mentions and gives full credit to Planet Hunters for the discovery. Well done to all who worked and contributed in outing this very unique star and its #transits could turn out to be a very special discovery indeed: Check it out here:

http://www.space.com/30849-bizarre-kepler-signal-alien-intelligence-speculation.html?cmpid=NL_SP_weekly_2015-10-17

Posted October 18, 2015 11:21 PM

by echo-lily-mai moderator

Congratulations Nighthawk_Black for the Amateur Research Award!!! See "Sky and Telescope. Planet Hunter Wins Amateur Research Award
By: Alan MacRobert | February 10, 2016" http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/planet-hunter-wins-amateur-research-award/?utm_content=buffer0b51d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Posted February 13, 2016 6:49 PM

by zoo3hans in response to echo-lily-mai's comment.

I second this of course. Congratulations to Daryll! He's one of the big names here on PH.

Hans Martin Schwengeler

Posted February 13, 2016 9:18 PM

by MCHRISTY in response to echo-lily-mai's comment.

Is the observing down atm.. all i get is a constant loading screen

Posted June 30, 2018 11:35 PM