National Space Institute | Technical University of Denmark | 2018 Feb 15
An international team of scientists lead by a PhD student at DTU Space have just confirmed finding nearly 100 new exoplanets.
Based on data from NASA’s K2 mission an international team of scientists have just confirmed nearly 100 new exoplanets, planets located outside our solar system. This brings the total number of new exoplanets found with the K2 mission up to almost 300. The new results are to be published in the Astronomical Journal.
“We started out analyzing 275 candidates of which 149 were validated as real exoplanets. In turn 95 of these planets have proved to be new discoveries,” said American PhD student Andrew Mayo at the National Space Institute (DTU Space) at the Technical University of Denmark. “This research has been underway since the first K2 data release in 2014.” ...
275 Candidates and 149 Validated Planets Orbiting Bright Stars in K2 Campaigns 0-10 - Andrew W. Mayo et al
- arXiv.org > astro-ph > arXiv:1802.05277 > 14 Feb 2018