Astronomy:Exoplanet Explorers
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Exoplanet Explorers was a Zooniverse citizen science project aimed at discovering new exoplanets with Kepler data from the K2 mission.[1][2] The project was launched in April 2017 and reached 26,281 registered volunteers. Two campaigns took place, the first one containing 148,061 images and the second one 56,794 images.[3]
A total of 9 exoplanets were found through the project: K2-138 b, c, d, e, f and g (initially referred to as EE-1b, EE-1c, EE-1d, and EE-1e), K2-233 b, c, and d, and K2-288Bb. K2-288Bb is considered to be potentially habitable with a radius of 1.91 Earth radii and a temperature of 206 K.[4]
Several other candidates in size groups were also found: Jupiters: 44, Neptunes: 72, super-Earths: 53, Earths: 15.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ "Be an astrophysicist: discover new planets". https://atlasofthefuture.org/project/exoplanet-explorers/.
- ↑ Klesman, Alison (April 7, 2017). "A new Zooniverse project just found four super Earths around a Sun-li" (in en). https://astronomy.com/news/2017/04/zooniverse-four-super-earths.
- ↑ "Exoplanet Explorers". https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ianc2/exoplanet-explorers/stats/?classification=month&workflow_id=3821.
- ↑ "The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo". http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/.
- ↑ "The whole story so far...". https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ianc2/exoplanet-explorers/about/results.
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