Planet Hunters: Assessing the Kepler Inventory of Short Period Planets
We present the results from a search of data from the first 33.5 days of the Kepler science mission (Quarter 1) for exoplanet transits by the Planet Hunters citizen science project. Planet Hunters enlists members of the general public to visually identify transits in the publicly released Kepler lig...
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| author | Schwamb, M Lintott, C Fischer, D Giguere, M Lynn, S Smith, A Brewer, J Parrish, M Schawinski, K Simpson, R |
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| description | We present the results from a search of data from the first 33.5 days of the Kepler science mission (Quarter 1) for exoplanet transits by the Planet Hunters citizen science project. Planet Hunters enlists members of the general public to visually identify transits in the publicly released Kepler light curves via the World Wide Web. Over 24,000 volunteers reviewed the Kepler Quarter 1 data set. We examine the abundance of \geq 2 R\oplus planets on short period (< 15 days) orbits based on Planet Hunters detections. We present these results along with an analysis of the detection efficiency of human classifiers to identify planetary transits including a comparison to the Kepler inventory of planet candidates. Although performance drops rapidly for smaller radii, \geq 4 R\oplus Planet Hunters \geq 85% efficient at identifying transit signals for planets with periods less than 15 days for the Kepler sample of target stars. Our high efficiency rate for simulated transits along with recovery of the majority of Kepler \geq 4 R\oplus planets suggest suggests the Kepler inventory of \geq 4 R\oplus short period planets is nearly complete. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:9e4cec45-8095-416b-a556-cff7313438852022-03-27T00:49:13ZPlanet Hunters: Assessing the Kepler Inventory of Short Period PlanetsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:9e4cec45-8095-416b-a556-cff731343885EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordInstitute of Physics Publishing2012Schwamb, MLintott, CFischer, DGiguere, MLynn, SSmith, ABrewer, JParrish, MSchawinski, KSimpson, RWe present the results from a search of data from the first 33.5 days of the Kepler science mission (Quarter 1) for exoplanet transits by the Planet Hunters citizen science project. Planet Hunters enlists members of the general public to visually identify transits in the publicly released Kepler light curves via the World Wide Web. Over 24,000 volunteers reviewed the Kepler Quarter 1 data set. We examine the abundance of \geq 2 R\oplus planets on short period (< 15 days) orbits based on Planet Hunters detections. We present these results along with an analysis of the detection efficiency of human classifiers to identify planetary transits including a comparison to the Kepler inventory of planet candidates. Although performance drops rapidly for smaller radii, \geq 4 R\oplus Planet Hunters \geq 85% efficient at identifying transit signals for planets with periods less than 15 days for the Kepler sample of target stars. Our high efficiency rate for simulated transits along with recovery of the majority of Kepler \geq 4 R\oplus planets suggest suggests the Kepler inventory of \geq 4 R\oplus short period planets is nearly complete. |
| spellingShingle | Schwamb, M Lintott, C Fischer, D Giguere, M Lynn, S Smith, A Brewer, J Parrish, M Schawinski, K Simpson, R Planet Hunters: Assessing the Kepler Inventory of Short Period Planets |
| title | Planet Hunters: Assessing the Kepler Inventory of Short Period Planets |
| title_full | Planet Hunters: Assessing the Kepler Inventory of Short Period Planets |
| title_fullStr | Planet Hunters: Assessing the Kepler Inventory of Short Period Planets |
| title_full_unstemmed | Planet Hunters: Assessing the Kepler Inventory of Short Period Planets |
| title_short | Planet Hunters: Assessing the Kepler Inventory of Short Period Planets |
| title_sort | planet hunters assessing the kepler inventory of short period planets |
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