Consider Update about Exoplanet KOI 4878.01 from Extrasolar Encyclopedia

[dougforplanets]

There was an update about October 4th this year on Extrasolar Encyclopedia about potentially habitable planet KOI 4878.01. They now say this planet is confirmed instead of merely a candidate. It is so far the exoplanet with the highest Earth Similarity Index with a value of 0.98 since it is an Earth size planet in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. ln order to possibly update Open Exoplanet Catalogue to confirmed for this planet I post a link to this planet's file in Extrasolar Encyclopedia: http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/koi-4878_b/

[SevenSpheres]

They've recently been promoting numerous Kepler candidates to "confirmed" with no reference. I'm not sure if this is an error, or if there's a paper yet to be published that will confirm these planets. Please wait and see before making changes to the database.

[dougforplanets]

Hi SevenSpheres, thanks for the clarification. Sigh, Hopefully Extrasolar Encyclopedia will announce a paper that confirms some of these Kepler planets soon, particularly KOI 4878.01 or KOI 4878 b.