We present new planet candidates identified in NASA Kepler quarter two public
release data by volunteers engaged in the Planet Hunters citizen science
project. The two candidates presented here survive checks for false-positives,
including examination of the pixel offset to constrain the possibility of a
background eclipsing binary. The orbital periods of the planet candidates are
97.46 days (KIC 4552729) and 284.03 (KIC 10005758) days and the modeled planet
radii are 5.3 and 3.790 R_Earth. The latter star has an additional known planet
candidate with a radius of 5.05 R_Earth and a period of 134.49 which was
detected by the Kepler pipeline. The discovery of these candidates illustrates
the value of massively distributed volunteer review of the Kepler database to
recover candidates which were otherwise uncatalogued.
Description
Planet Hunters: New Kepler planet candidates from analysis of quarter 2
%0 Generic
%1 lintott2012planet
%A Lintott, Chris
%A Schwamb, Megan E.
%A Sharzer, Charlie
%A Fischer, Debra A.
%A Barclay, Thomas
%A Parrish, Michael
%A Batalha, Natalie
%A Bryson, Steve
%A Jenkins, Jon
%A Ragozzine, Darin
%A Rowe, Jason F.
%A Schawinski, Kevin
%A Gagliano, Rovert
%A Gilardi, Joe
%A Jek, Kian J.
%A Pääkkönen, Jari-Pekka
%A Smits, Tjapko
%D 2012
%E Lintott, Chris
%E Schwamb, Megan E.
%K astrophysics planets
%T Planet Hunters: New Kepler planet candidates from analysis of quarter 2
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.6007
%X We present new planet candidates identified in NASA Kepler quarter two public
release data by volunteers engaged in the Planet Hunters citizen science
project. The two candidates presented here survive checks for false-positives,
including examination of the pixel offset to constrain the possibility of a
background eclipsing binary. The orbital periods of the planet candidates are
97.46 days (KIC 4552729) and 284.03 (KIC 10005758) days and the modeled planet
radii are 5.3 and 3.790 R_Earth. The latter star has an additional known planet
candidate with a radius of 5.05 R_Earth and a period of 134.49 which was
detected by the Kepler pipeline. The discovery of these candidates illustrates
the value of massively distributed volunteer review of the Kepler database to
recover candidates which were otherwise uncatalogued.
@misc{lintott2012planet,
abstract = {We present new planet candidates identified in NASA Kepler quarter two public
release data by volunteers engaged in the Planet Hunters citizen science
project. The two candidates presented here survive checks for false-positives,
including examination of the pixel offset to constrain the possibility of a
background eclipsing binary. The orbital periods of the planet candidates are
97.46 days (KIC 4552729) and 284.03 (KIC 10005758) days and the modeled planet
radii are 5.3 and 3.790 R_Earth. The latter star has an additional known planet
candidate with a radius of 5.05 R_Earth and a period of 134.49 which was
detected by the Kepler pipeline. The discovery of these candidates illustrates
the value of massively distributed volunteer review of the Kepler database to
recover candidates which were otherwise uncatalogued.},
added-at = {2012-04-24T16:49:36.000+0200},
author = {Lintott, Chris and Schwamb, Megan E. and Sharzer, Charlie and Fischer, Debra A. and Barclay, Thomas and Parrish, Michael and Batalha, Natalie and Bryson, Steve and Jenkins, Jon and Ragozzine, Darin and Rowe, Jason F. and Schawinski, Kevin and Gagliano, Rovert and Gilardi, Joe and Jek, Kian J. and Pääkkönen, Jari-Pekka and Smits, Tjapko},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2a565e6c302bfdcdbdf6c14480938a27b/eufisica},
description = {Planet Hunters: New Kepler planet candidates from analysis of quarter 2},
editor = {Lintott, Chris and Schwamb, Megan E.},
interhash = {d9bf4998d53851f240e5d135bec6cdf5},
intrahash = {a565e6c302bfdcdbdf6c14480938a27b},
keywords = {astrophysics planets},
note = {cite arxiv:1202.6007Comment: Submitted to AJ},
timestamp = {2013-08-26T08:25:51.000+0200},
title = {Planet Hunters: New Kepler planet candidates from analysis of quarter 2},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.6007},
year = 2012
}