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Discover exoplanets in K2 targets that have not been searched (coincidentally observed) #6

Open gully opened 6 years ago

gully commented 6 years ago
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K2 observed tens-or-hundreds of thousands of astronomical sources by coincidence-- sources that happened to fall on portions of stamps aimed at other targets. These sources have generally not been searched for planets. In this research project, one would extract lightcurves for tens of thousands of stars, and apply conventional planet search techniques to discover exoplanets.

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JeffLCoughlin commented 6 years ago

Great idea. This paper came to mind from the Kepler EBWG, which discovered a couple hundred new EBs by looking at non-KIC sources captured in the Kepler prime data. Worth seeing if their tools are public, or just at their technique.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016AJ....151..101A