PlanetQuest

PlanetQuest

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

Overview

The project is still under development and will utilize the BOINC platform.To search for new planets, this project 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.

ee also

*BOINC
*Distributed computing
*List of distributed computing projects
*SETI@home
*Transit detection method

External links

* [http://www.planetquest.org/ PlanetQuest Website]
* [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)]


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