Sunday, April 10, 2011

Zooniverse Update 1

In the Zooniverse project, I have been mostly focusing on Planet Hunter. I have found that in many cases, I have found that locating the transit features is very subjective, and they are rarely very apparent. There was even one instance where the system inserted a simulated planet in the light curve that seemed virtually undetectable. There was, however, one star (which I marked as a favorite) where the curve seemed to show very clear transit features much more dramatic than any of the others. I have also done some work in Galaxy Zoo classifying galaxies. The majority of the galaxies appear to just be "smooth," but some are pretty interesting. A few that I saw were highly irregular, which I found interesting.

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