PH2: A Newly Confirmed Planet and 42 Additional Planet Candidates

[JB80]

Well some exciting news out of the planet hunters team over at zooniverse with the confirmation of a new Jupiter sized planet in the habitable zone.
Not only that there is also the announcement of 31 long period planet candidates of which 15 are in the habitable zone.
There is also a watch list of a further 9 candidates who need some more data to make the 3 transits needed for it to be a viable candidate.

Seeing as it's hit the press I figure now I can post it as I have been sitting on the info all week.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/moons-could-hold-alien-life-8441343.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2258436/Researchers-traffic-jam-habitable-moons-similar-Avatars-Pandora.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

http://blog.planethunters.org/2013/01/07/a-newly-confirmed-planet-and-42-additional-planet-candidates/



The above paper can be downloaded at arvix ...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0644
or here...
http://zooniverse-resources.s3.amazonaws.com/ph/PH5.pdf

In which there is a link to an acknowledgment page here...
http://www.planethunters.org/LongPeriodCandidates
Where you can find my name sitting proudly amongst the group. :D

[malclocke]

Congratulations Jarrod, I'm also in the credit list for the long period candidates :-)

I've done a quick write up on my planet candidate at http://wholemeal.co.nz/~malc/KIC4760478.pdf

Assuming my calculations are correct (a big assumption!) my planet is similar in radius to Jupiter, orbiting at 1.4au, slightly smaller than Mars' orbit. Mine is one of the nine that require another transit before follow up, in which case I expect the Kepler team will take the credit.

Which star is your candidate?

[JB80]

Thanks Malcolm and congratulations to yourself.

That's an excellent write up, I saw it posted earlier and wondered you may be a member on IIS too. Doing a proper follow up is something I still need to learn how to do.

Mine was KIC 3634051 I was the first to flag it and mention it. It was mentioned as part of the "6 additional planet candidates with periods shorter than 525 d" in the paper. It's been described as potentially a warm Neptunian and is located in the habitable zone. At the time there were only two transits but with Q13 data a third has shown up.
Here is a link with others discussing it.
http://talk.planethunters.org/objects/APH41111337/discussions/DPH101e8m4 (http://talk.planethunters.org/objects/APH41111337/discussions/DPH101e8m4)

Location
19 11 54.110 RA
+38 44 25.01 DEC

[malclocke]

That's great, and given you have three transits I think you are much more likely to get follow up observations. I think as the first person to classify it you will get co-authorship status on the paper if it gets that far, which would be fairly awesome! Good luck ;)

[LewisM]

Incredible stuff guys! Well done!

[JB80]

Cheers Lewis.:)



I really hope that there will be follow up on it, it does seem a good candidate to do so with. Plus I don't think it will be on the list of 461 candidates found by Kepler released yesterday as well as they didn't include Q13 data.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-461-new-candidates.html
I'm not sure how that will work though I guess it's up to the science team.
Co-authorship would be pretty special but I wont hold my breathe on it.