Planet Hunters forum Talk member Clue4fun4 flagged this transit drop in Kepler Quarter 16. It is a very long period planet that has shown up at the tail end of the Kepler data stream prior to the spacecraft going offline in 2013.
Comments by Kian Jek:
This is a very long duration transit that sneaked into the last days of Q16. Eyeballing it, the duration suggests a long period. The primary is a Type K subgiant.
Running a transit fit yields the following:
The period is very long, from 4.4 to 7.7 yr. The planet is approximately the size of Saturn, at 8.11x RE, based on a stellar radius of 0.882x Sol.
You can follow this planet at Planet Hunters forum Talk page here.
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