Published November 2, 2017 | Version v1
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Backyard Worlds: Planet 9

Authors/Creators

  • 1. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • 2. American Museum of Natural History
  • 3. Arizona State University
  • 4. Berkeley Lab.
  • 5. Carnegie Institution of Washington, DTM
  • 6. University of Oklahoma
  • 7. STScI

Description

Recent discoveries of cool brown dwarfs in the solar neighborhood point to an undiscovered population of brown dwarfs and rogue planets in the solar neighborhood. We've launched a new citizen science project, called "Backyard Worlds: Planet 9" that has engaged >125,000 volunteers to search for these backyard worlds by visually inspecting WISE and NEOWISE images. Besides seeking new brown dwarfs and nearby stars, this site (backyardworlds.org) is also the most sensitive all-sky mid-infrared search for a planet orbiting the Sun beyond Pluto (sometimes called Planet Nine). I'll describe the latest results from this project. Please bring your laptop or smart phone! (And come anyway even if you don't have a laptop.)

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10.3847/2041-8213/aa7200 (DOI)