Amateur astronomer discovered four exoplanets using two home PCs

As you know, Neptune, the eighth planet of the solar system, was opened literally "at the tip of the pen." The fact is that the actual orbit of Uranus did not coincide with the calculated one, which indicated to astronomers the possibility of the existence of a planet beyond the orbit of Uranus, which distorted the trajectory of the latter. The French astronomer Urban Le Verrier, having carried out a series of calculations, calculated the actual trajectory of Uranus, and the possible location of the planet, which causes the mentioned distortions. "Planet from the tip of the pen", Neptune, was found within a day by a telescope.



Similarly, Pluto was also discovered, but it is no longer a planet, as decided by astronomers, so we will not write about it. So, our contemporary with you, amateur astronomer Peter Yalovikzor (Peter Jalowiczor), broke the record by opening four exoplanets at once, using only his home computers (only two PCs).

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Yes, our amateur doesn’t have a telescope at all, and why should he, if the images received by the most powerful telescopes of the most famous observatories of our planet are regularly laid out on the Net? Peter spent the whole three years to find the stars that meet a single criterion. He was looking for luminaries whose behavior deviates from the theory, and the only reason for such deviations is the existence of exoplanets / exoplanets. He used the Doppler spectroscopy method (based on the Doppler effect, as you might guess) to detect exoplanets.



For three years, as mentioned above, the amateur astronomer spent almost all of his free time processing the data received by the University of California team. Astronomers from this university laid out thousands of pictures that fans could use for their research. As we can see, the disinterestedness of professional astronomers has borne fruit, and scientists have added four more exoplanets to the catalogs thanks to the work of Peter. Now in the global catalog of the planet appear under the codes HD31253b, HD218566b, HD177830c, and HD99492c.



In an interview, Peter said that he prefers not to spend his free time on computer games, like many of his friends, but to explore the vastness of the vast universe. Well, a commendable lesson, especially since Peter brought a certain benefit to science.



Via CNET