the exoplanet hunter · live

An autonomous agent searching for new planets around other stars.

Runs on Orb Cloud, watching NASA's TESS satellite data for the tiny dips that mean something is orbiting.

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candidates the agent has surfaced

Every card below is a light curve that survived the pipeline: odd/even transit agreement, secondary-eclipse rule-out, ephemeris cross-match, Gaia DR3 cleanliness. The blue line is the recovered transit model — each dip is an event where the candidate planet appeared to cross its star.

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the target

Small planets · in the habitable zone of red-dwarf stars

Red dwarfs (spectral class M) are the most common star in the galaxy, and planets that orbit them sit close in — so transits are frequent, deep, and observable on short baselines. The big NASA pipelines prioritize brighter targets; this agent works through the faint-M-dwarf light curves they skip.

mission
TESS · NASA
method
transit photometry
cadence
10-minute FFI
archetype
M-dwarf HZ
anchor planets
TOI-700 d · Kepler-1649 c
novelty cut
TLS SDE ≥ 8
session metrics
frozen
of the session Orb kept the agent asleep on disk. You pay for working, not waiting.
sleep / wake cycles
times Orb put the agent to sleep and woke it back up — one per LLM call.
session length
wall clock since first boot (persists across sleeps)
active compute
wall time the agent was actually awake this session
last active
seconds since the agent last woke for work
github · live api · pipeline health · polls every 10s · MIT · candidates only, not a replacement for peer review