Planet Patrol (project)

Planet Patrol is a NASA citizen science project available in Zooniverse and aimed at discovering new exoplanets with data from the TESS telescope.[1]

Exoplanet transit detection

The project is built on results produced by a computer algorithm. The algorithm measures the center-of-light of the images and automatically compares it to the catalog position of the corresponding star.[2]

The main difference with Planet Hunters is that Planet Patrol looks at objects that represent a detected planet candidate in TESS data, whereas Planet Hunters searches through all the stars in the TESS databases and asks humans to find such candidates.[3]

As of September 2020, there are 1370 volunteers and 72,938 classifications have been done.[4]

The images representing a possible exoplanet transit show a single bright source near the middle of the image with a dot at the center.

See also

References
  1. Kazmierczak, Jeanette (2020-09-28). "Search for New Worlds at Home With NASA's Planet Patrol Project". NASA. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
  2. "FAQ". www.zooniverse.org. Retrieved 2020-09-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "FAQ". www.zooniverse.org. Retrieved 2020-09-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "Planet Patrol". www.zooniverse.org. Retrieved 2020-09-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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