Friday, November 9, 2012

Unlisted Planet Candidate Transiting KID 8636333


Planet Hunters forum Talk members have flagged an unlisted planet transiting KID 8636333.

Kian Jek:
Only 2 transits but very nice curves. As other people have been publishing with just two or even one transit, here's the MCMC model fit. Converged extremely fast for 100000 iterations given how clean the data appears to be. The ingress fit is a little lopsided because I think there's a couple of outliers there. A few more transits should fix that, but it'll be quite a wait:





The planet size is approx. 3.67x RE, Teq around 185K, assuming the stellar parameters at MAST. Thanks to Nighthawk_Black (Daryll LaCourse) for reminding me about this. AFAIK this one's only known to Planet Hunters.

You can follow the discussion for this planet here.

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