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Exoplanet HD 80606 b was the topic of Kyle Pearson's 2022 publication featuring the work of Exoplanet Watch citizen scientists. You can see an artist's concept of this exoplanet in NASA's Eyes on Exoplanets. Click and drag the planet to move it around, or click the "+" to see more information about this exoplanet. Credit: NASA's Eyes on Exoplanets

Below are publications that use data and/or products of Exoplanet Watch. View on SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS).

If you are a citizen scientist participating in Exoplanet Watch, you will be listed as a co-author on scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals if they use your light curve in their research. You don't have to write your own scientific paper in order to contribute to the global body of scientific knowledge about transiting exoplanets.

Citation and Acknowledgement

If you use any Exoplanet Watch data in your publication, you are required to include the observers of those data as co-authors on your paper. To get in touch with your anonymous observer, contact the AAVSO with their observer code.

Please also cite the paper by Zellem et al. 2020 and include the following statement in the Acknowledgements section of your paper: “This publication makes use of data products from Exoplanet Watch, a citizen science project managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on behalf of NASA's Universe of Learning. This work is supported by NASA under award number NNX16AC65A to the Space Telescope Science Institute, in partnership with Caltech/IPAC, Center for Astrophysics|Harvard & Smithsonian, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory."

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