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Published March 18, 2019 | Version Submitted
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Engaging Citizen Scientists to Keep Transit Times Fresh and Ensure the Efficient Use of Transiting Exoplanet Characterization Missions

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Abstract

This white paper advocates for the creation of a community-wide program to maintain precise mid-transit times of exoplanets that would likely be targeted by future platforms. Given the sheer number of targets that will require careful monitoring between now and the launch of the next generation of exoplanet characterization missions, this network will initially be devised as a citizen science project -- focused on the numerous amateur astronomers, small universities and community colleges and high schools that have access to modest sized telescopes and off-the-shelf CCDs.

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Part of the research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. © 2019. All rights reserved. NASA's Universe of Learning is supported under award number NNX16AC65A to the Space Telescope Science Institute, working in partnership with Caltech/IPAC, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and Sonoma State University.

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96604
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CaltechAUTHORS:20190620-144120530

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https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07716 (URL)

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NASA/JPL/Caltech
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NNX16AC65A

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2019-06-20
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2023-06-02
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Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)
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Astro2020 Science White Paper