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Planet Hunters: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet in a Quadruple Star System
Megan E. Schwamb, Jerome A. Orosz, Joshua A. Carter +17
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 volunt…
Planet Hunters: Assessing the Kepler Inventory of Short Period Planets
Megan E. Schwamb, Chris J. Lintott, Debra A. Fischer +7
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…
Ensemble Properties of Comets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Michael Solontoi, Zeljko Ivezic, Mario Juric +10
We present the ensemble properties of 31 comets (27 resolved and 4 unresolved) observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This sample of comets represents about 1 comet per 1…
Planet Hunters: New Kepler planet candidates from analysis of quarter 2
Chris J. Lintott, Megan E. Schwamb, Thomas Barclay +17
We present new planet candidates identified in NASA Kepler quarter two public release data by volunteers engaged in the Planet Hunters citizen science project. The two candidates p…
AVAST Survey 0.4-1.0 μm Spectroscopy of Igneous Asteroids in the Inner and Middle Main Belt
Michael Solontoi, Mark Hammergren, Geza Gyuk +1
We present the spectra of 60 asteroids, including 47 V-types observed during the first phase of the Adler V-Type Asteroid (AVAST) Survey. SDSS photometry was used to select candida…