Planet Hunters: The First Two Planet Candidates Identified by the Public using the Kepler Public Archive Data

Planet Hunters is a new citizen science project, designed to engage the public in an exoplanet search using NASA Kepler public release data. In the first month after launch, users identified two new planet candidates which survived our checks for false- positives. The follow-up effort included analy...

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Main Authors: Fischer, D, Schwamb, M, Schawinski, K, Lintott, C, Brewer, J, Giguere, M, Lynn, S, Parrish, M, Sartori, T, Simpson, R, Smith, A, Spronck, J, Batalha, N, Rowe, J, Jenkins, J, Bryson, S, Prsa, A, Tenenbaum, P, Crepp, J, Morton, T, Howard, A, Beleu, M, Kaplan, Z, vanNispen, N, Sharzer, C
Format: Journal article
Published: 2011