Data Mining for Extra-Solar Planets
Abstract
We describe the results of a large catalog data-mining project whose goal is to identify favorable stars for potential SETI-like searches, and for potential extra-solar planet searches. We apply a variety of constraints to mine the USNO-B catalog of over one billion objects in order to generate a reduced ``best candidates'' list of a few hundred stars. We summarize our assumptions, our approach, and our data mining results.
- Publication:
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Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVI
- Pub Date:
- October 2007
- Bibcode:
- 2007ASPC..376..453B