Pilots can set the granularity of the detrending tool so that it will only filter out events that take longer than the set time span (options are 1 hour, 5 hours, 10 hours and 24 hours). There will also be a detrending tool available, which attempts to filter out large scale events caused by the star itself rather than a transiting object. This can make it easier to define periodic drops in luminosity, as they’ll line up if the graph is folded to the same frequency. Generally, the only object large enough to cause such dips are exoplanets or other stars.Īs part of the analysis, players will be given tools that will allow them to fold the luminosity curve of over time, and chop the curve into pieces of a given length so that they can overlay them across each other. These dips can indicate the transit of a substantially large celestial body between the star being measured and the telescope here in Earth’s orbit. When playing Project Discovery, you will be presented with a light curve graph representing a star's luminosity over time, which you’ll analyze primarily by looking for regular dips in luminosity. When EVE pilots have reached a consensus, the data will be transmitted to scientists from the University of Geneva, who will then study the results and confirm your findings. To do this, pilots will be equipped with in game tools to filter out variations in the star’s luminosity that do not resemble transiting events, as well as a tool to confirm that these transits are regular and periodic. Pilots will be presented with light curves that belong to any one of the 160,000 stars that the CoRoT telescope is monitoring, and will be tasked with identifying transitional planets – planets that are passing between the star and Earth – by highlight drops in the star’s luminosity. This is where players start doing science! With these measurements, we can note systematic changes in apparent luminosity of the star which allows us to track celestial bodies in its orbit. This method uses long term measurements of the luminosity – or brightness – of a star. One of the most fruitful methods we have of finding exoplanets is transit photometry.
Now, with the July release this year, EVE is taking Project Discovery and citizen science to space for real! The Hardcore Science Thanks to the work of citizen scientists in Project Discovery, scientists have managed to identify several examples of proteins as belonging to a new cellular structure called Rods & Rings. The first collaboration saw over a hundred thousand pilots submit more than 25 million classifications of human cells to the Human Protein Atlas – a scientific research program with the goal to explore the whole human proteome – thus demonstrating the enormous benefit that a large and committed base of gamers could bring to citizen science when engaged effectively. Its aim is to use EVE Online’s famously dedicated community to aid in scientific research. Project Discovery is the citizen science initiative launched as a collaboration between independent games developer CCP Games, Massive Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS) and Reykjavik University. The project is led by Professor Michel Mayor, who, together with Didier Queloz in 1995, discovered 51 Pegasi b – the first exoplanet orbiting a main sequence star. The next phase of Project Discovery is a partnership between CCP Games, MMOS, Reykjavík University and University of Geneva.
So far, the mission has discovered a total of 37 exoplanets, and the recent discovery of seven planets in the same star system of Trappist-1 was made using the same method.Īs with the first phase of Project Discovery, the analysis will occur in-game and pilots can earn rewards that will benefit them while playing EVE Online.
The collective power of many human brains is still the fastest and most accurate way to analyze all this data. Your contributions will be incredibly valuable to scientists, as the amount of data collected by the telescope is vast and computers are not yet capable of analyzing such large volumes of information in a reasonable time frame. Here on Earth, you’ll be taking part in the next phase of Project Discovery, which brings citizen science to space in both EVE Online and the real world. With the arrival of EVE Online’s 11 July release, pilots will be called upon by the CONCORD Assembly to assist with stellar mapping of the cluster beyond the reaches of known space.
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