AI is Now Helping Kepler Find Planets

Media Telecon Dec. 14th to Announce Latest Kepler Discovery

"NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST (18:00 UTC) Thursday, Dec. 14, to announce the latest discovery made by its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. The discovery was made by researchers using machine learning from Google. Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence, and demonstrates new ways of analyzing Kepler data."

Briefing participants:

* Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington
* Christopher Shallue, senior software engineer at Google AI in Mountain View, California
* Andrew Vanderburg, astronomer and NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Texas, Austin
* Jessie Dotson, Kepler project scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley

- Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler. VIII. A Fully Automated Catalog With Measured Completeness and Reliability Based on Data Release 25
- Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time (ZEIT) V: A Uniform Search for Transiting Planets in Young Clusters Observed by K2
- Towards Better Planet Occurrence Rates from Kepler and K2. Andrew Vanderburg. NASA Sagan Fellow The University of Texas at Austin, Sagan/Michelson Fellows Symposium November 9, 2017 -- (Larger image above)

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