The Visual Survey Group: A Decade of Hunting Exoplanets and Unusual Stellar Events with Space-Based Telescopes
Martti H. K. Kristiansen, Saul A. Rappaport, Andrew M. Vanderburg,, Thomas L. Jacobs, Hans Martin Schwengeler, Robert Gagliano, Ivan A. Terentev,, Daryll M. LaCourse, Mark R. Omohundro, Allan R. Schmitt, Brian P. Powell and, Veselin B. Kostov

TL;DR
The Visual Survey Group has extensively analyzed space telescope data over a decade, combining professional and amateur efforts to discover exoplanets and rare stellar phenomena, highlighting manual search advantages over automated methods.
Contribution
This paper details the formation, methods, and discoveries of the VSG, emphasizing the effectiveness of manual visual surveys in uncovering overlooked astrophysical objects.
Findings
Surveyed nearly 10 million light curves
Authored 69 peer-reviewed papers
Discovered rare stars and phenomena
Abstract
This article presents the history of the Visual Survey Group (VSG) - a Professional-Amateur (Pro-Am) collaboration within the field of astronomy working on data from several space missions (Kepler, K2 and TESS). This paper covers the formation of the VSG, its survey-methods including the most common tools used and its discoveries made over the past decade. So far, the group has visually surveyed nearly 10 million light curves and authored 69 peer-reviewed papers which mainly focus on exoplanets and discoveries involving multistellar systems found using the transit method. The preferred manual search-method carried out by the VSG has revealed its strength by detecting numerous sub-stellar objects which were overlooked or discarded by automated search programs, uncovering some of the most rare stars in our galaxy, and leading to several serendipitous discoveries of unprecedented…
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