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Extracting Earth Frequency from Audio Sonification of EPOXI Spacecraft Photographs- A Proposal

TranslationVideo of the Moon transiting the Earth, as imaged by NASA’s EPOXI spacecraft, was made from the still images collected when EPOXI’s spacecraft imaged the Earth-Moon system on 28-29 May 2008. When the images were acquired, the spacecraft was just … Continue reading

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Detecting Shallow Transit Eclipsing Binary Star Systems at Planet Hunters

TranslationPlanet Hunters assists the Kepler science team in identifying planet candidates and eclipsing binary (EB) star systems that were not flagged by the powerful NASA computers using sophisticated search algorithms. It is about using our human pattern recognition skills to … Continue reading

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Planet Hunters finds a “Precious Discovery” RR Lyrae Star

TranslationA 1901 Astrophysical Journal paper by Pickering provides a list of sixty four new variables, one of which — a star in the constellation Lyra — was found using the method above on a plate from July 13, 1899. Examination … Continue reading

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Extracting Kepler Planet 10b Transit Frequency from its Light Curve Sonification

TranslationOne of the issues with analyzing Kepler light curves (LC) is seeing planet transit light drops in noisy or quiet LCs such as the one below. Kepler uses special algorithms and the powerful NASA computers to screen these light curves … Continue reading

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