Showing posts with label KIC 2581554. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KIC 2581554. Show all posts

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Unlisted Planet Candidate KID 2581554


Planet Hunters forum Talk members have identified KID 2581554 as a planet candidate with a very short period.

Kian Jek:
The host is a heavily spotted Type K subgiant with a rapid rotation of ~8 days resulting in a lot of variation which made the 17 transits hard to isolate. There appear to be no correlated APOs. Transits were masked out by hand and the curve detrended:

The light curve is then folded by hand again to obtain a period of 47.148 and a rather good-looking transit curve:


The transit duration is very short because of the high impact parameter of 0.93. The transit depth corresponds to a 7.47x RE planet at a distance of 0.28AU and a Teq of 577K.
 UPDATE: Phased APO plot for Q5 and Q9:


You can follow the discussion for this planet at Planet Hunters here.



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