PlanetQuest

PlanetQuest is a grid computing project for discovering new planets and classifying stars from Earth-based observatories' images.

Overview

The PlanetQuest project is currently still under development, and will utilize the BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) platform.

To search for new planets, PlanetQuest developed the Transit Detection Algorithm (TDA), photometric (light-measuring) method, which can automatically detect new planets, using the optical information from ground-based telescopes. The TDA has also been adapted for use in NASA's Kepler Mission. Some of the data gathered from Kepler will be processed by PlanetQuest.

See also

• Transit detection method
• Distributed computing
• List of distributed computing projects
• BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing)

External links

• PlanetQuest Website
• PlanetQuest Google Group

Exoplanet search projects
Ground-based	AAPS APF CORALIE EAPSNet ELODIE EPICS ESPRESSO FINDS Exo-Earths Geneva HARPS HARPS-N GPI HATNet HEK HiCIAO HIRES KELT LCES Magellan MARVELS MEarth MicroFUN MINERVA MOA N2K NGTS NESSI OGLE OPSP PlanetPol PlanetQuest Project 1640 PARAS SEEDS SETI SOPHIE SPECULOOS SPHERE SuperWASP Systemic TrES XO Telescope ZIMPOL/CHEOPS
Space missions	Past and current MOST (2003–present) SWEEPS (2006) COROT (2006–13) EPOXI (2008–13) Kepler (2009–present) KOI exoplanets Gaia (2013–present) Planned CHEOPS (2017) TESS (2017) James Webb Space Telescope (2018) PLATO (2024) WFIRST (mid-2020s) Proposed ATLAST EXCEDE FINESSE New Worlds Mission PEGASE Cancelled Darwin EChO Eddington Space Interferometry Mission Terrestrial Planet Finder
Detection methods Discoveries of exoplanets Lists of exoplanets