The Pursuit of Objectivity

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In just a few days, the Hubble Space Telescope will be observing a star that we have claimed possesses the most compelling exomoon candidate found to date, Kepler-1625b-i. The hope is that Hubble will either confirm or deny the existence of our candidate. Having invested so many years of effort into this hunt, we are faced with a situation well-trodden by many previous scientists - when your personal investment threatens your objectivity. In a somewhat different video to usual, I decided to walk through some of my thoughts on this in the build up to our analysis and how, at least for me, I work to remain as objective as I can.

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► Catch up about Kepler-1625b here: https://youtu.be/8V9QHn5oHMs ► You can read about earlier false exomoon positives at https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.7028 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05555 ► Nature article on Jan Hendrik Schön available here: http://www.nature.com/news/2002/020923/full/news020923-9.html ► Thumbnail image is of Skellig Michael from Adevnturous Kate: http://www.adventurouskate.com/skellig-michael-irelands-most-striking-destination/ ► Columbia University Department of Astronomy: http://www.astro.columbia.edu ► Cool Worlds Lab website: http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu ► Intro clip is Bertrand Russell (1870-1972) being interviewed on "Face to Face" in 1959: catch the full clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZv3pSaLtY

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