Planet Hunters: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet in a Quadruple Star System

We report the discovery and confirmation of a transiting circumbinary planet (PH1b) around KIC 4862625, an eclipsing binary in the Kepler field. The planet was discovered by volunteers searching the first six Quarters of publicly available Kepler data as part of the Planet Hunters citizen science pr...

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Main Authors: Schwamb, M, Orosz, J, Carter, J, Welsh, W, Fischer, D, Torres, G, Howard, A, Crepp, JR, Keel, W, Lintott, C, Kaib, N, Terrell, D, Gagliano, R, Jek, K, Parrish, M, Smith, A, Lynn, S, Simpson, R, Giguere, M, Schawinski, K
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2012