I assume it’s only a matter of time before we discover a system with 10+ planets.
One of the questions was "who finds a nine planet system first, Kepler or Mike Brown?" lol
Quote from: Dao Angkan on 12/14/2017 07:16 pmOne of the questions was "who finds a nine planet system first, Kepler or Mike Brown?" lolTombaugh
It was heartening to hear at the news conference that the training model used in these detections will be made publicly available. According to Google’s Shallue, about two hours suffice to train the model on a desktop computer using open source machine learning software called TensorFlow, which is produced by Google. When the code becomes available, anyone will be able to use the model on the publicly available Kepler data on their own PCs.The paper is Shallue & Vanderburg, “Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning: A Five Planet Resonant Chain around Kepler-80 and an Eighth Planet around Kepler-90,” accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal, and for now available here.
Cool! Me and Tony, also of this place, helped find one of the planets in this system; https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.5912v3We had actually identified the others before the Kepler team but were beaten to publishing them IIRC.
What, no mention of who the amateur planet hunters were?! The discoverers were from Australia, participating in an online planet hunting survey as part of the ABC's (Australian Broadcasting Commission) Stargazing Live show with Prof. Brian Cox and host Ms. Julia Zemiro.https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/01/australian-amateur-astronomers-discover-star-system-with-five-rocky-planets/