In Part 1, I described the new observations we acquired for one of our candidates to try to determine whether it was an exoplanet, or, in fact, a binary star system. The crucial radial velocity measurements revealed the latter was true and in this post I will describe what we have since learned about the […]| Planet Hunters
Good news everyone! Our paper describing the Planet Hunters NGTS project and presenting the first 5 planet candidates discovered by the project has been published in the Astronomical Journal! The p…| Planet Hunters
If we’re confident that there is a real transit signal coming from a given star, we can apply for an allocation of time to use the Zorro speckle imager on the Gemini South telescope (which is a hug…| Planet Hunters
