In 2012, two teams working independently from each other and from the Kalas group downloaded the publicly available Hubble Space Telescope data and replicated the discovery of Fomalhaut b.
The revival of the claim that Fomalhaut b is (possibly) a planet after it had been discounted led some to nickname the object a "zombie planet",[REF] although this is a non-technical term used in press material and does not appear in any peer-reviewed manuscript.