Planet Hunters NGTS: no planet left behind in the Next Generation Transit Survey

In this project, we enlist the help of members of the public to visually vet candidates from the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). The aim of this project is to detect planet candidates that were missed in initial searches of these data.

By combining classifications from multiple non-expert volunteers, we are able to efficiently classify these large datasets much faster than traditional visual vetting. I present 5 new planet candidates discovered through the Planet Hunters NGTS project that were not previously detected in these data. These discoveries demonstrate that the citizen science approach can provide a complementary method to the detection of exoplanets with ground-based surveys such as NGTS and thus can improve the completeness of these surveys.<br><br>I detail the identification and characterization of one of these candidates as an eclipsing binary system composed of two M-dwarfs.