backyardworlds

NASA-funded citizen science project searching the realm beyond Neptune for brown dwarfs and Planet Nine. This account is managed by AMNH.

[backyardworlds @backyardworlds]

We published a new paper!

[Arttu Sainio @space_r2]

Paper time: Redder than Red- The reddest known free-floating L/T dwarf (A. Schneider et al). We suggest β Pic membership, young age and mass <13 Jupiter masses. We also report possible IR variability based on WISE photometry. https://t.co/89rlL9zk8q @caltechipac @backyardworlds

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Go, Austin! #aas241

[Jackie Faherty @jfaherty]

Graduate student Austin Rothermich presented on his upcoming paper characterizing a big new catalog of benchmark brown dwarfs. Austin started as a citizen scientist with @backyardworlds and this is the culmination of the work he started as an undergrad with me!

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It's been a busy #aas241!

[Jackie Faherty @jfaherty]

Another @backyardworlds presentation was given by undergraduate Hunter Brooks on discovering 124 new brown dwarf candidates with a machine learning technique (which happened to be developed by the amazing Dan Caselden)

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Congratulations, Leopold!!

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We’re at the American Astronomical Society meeting! ⁦@jfaherty⁩ ⁦@telmahsel⁩ ⁦@dancaselden⁩ ⁦@CoolNeighbors⁩ #aas241

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Our own Dan Caselden presenting at #AAS241

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Our own @karmeliet64 is featured in this new discussing the search for Planet 9! In French/German. https://t.co/kDUyWr59Qc

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Hey that’s us! Thanks for spotting this, @CoolNeighbors!

[Cool Neighbors @CoolNeighbors]

@backyardworlds @dancaselden @jfaherty

https://t.co/wDxUHUhYbj

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Happy Thanksgiving to all our volunteers! We're grateful for your hard work and your creative ideas!

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Read all about my cofounder in this NYT profile!

[Jackie Faherty @jfaherty]

Thanks for the profile @AlixStrauss and @nytimes ! Shoutouts in here to some of my favorite NYC establishments on the UWS: Tap a Keg and Cafe du Soleil as well as (of course) the greatest museum in the world @AMNH!!!! https://t.co/8t6SaKnfbd

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Congratulations to Leopold for this beautiful piece of scientific detective work!!

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That's our science team member Dr. Eileen Gonzales! Way to go, Eileen!!

[Dr. Nikole Lewis @NikoleKLewis]

Big congrats to @EGonzales788 for winning this year’s #Cornell Postdoc Award for Excellence in Leadership @BlackInPhysics

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More well-deserved news coverage for Frank Kiwy!
https://t.co/eJsinNU72N

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Congrats to citizen scientists @space_r2 @dancaselden and Melina Thevenot! Their brown dwarf discoveries will be observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. @NASAWebb @DoNASAScience

[Marc Kuchner @marckuchner]

Did you know members of the public have already won time on the James Webb Space Telescope? Go @NASAWebb #citizenscience! https://t.co/zeUaXcn4Gn

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Check out our new research note! It’s about a funky triple system: a white dwarf around an eclipsing binary. Congratulations, Tom!!!!

[Tom Bickle @AstroBicks]

Sooo I wrote a thing https://t.co/DOlcwla80M

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Yadu, Hunter, Davy, Aaron, and Fede are talking Backyard Worlds at this week’s #AAS240 American Astronomical Society meeting!

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Go @telmahsel!!

[NASA Citizen Science @DoNASAScience]

"The skills I practiced in Backyard Worlds – from the general kind of scientific thinking to the math skills – have helped me in my career."
- Les Hamlet

Get to know our #citizenscientists: https://t.co/uSWYXTTIHz

#DoNASAScience

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@CoalaH2020 @the_zooniverse Thanks, COALA H2020!!

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Congrats to Billy Pendrill for having his brown dwarf image featured in the new OSTP report on Prizes and Citizen Science! https://t.co/r4FwYDWior

[CitSciMonth @CitSciMonth]

Is there a large, undiscovered planet in the Solar System’s backyard? Join the search using data from NASA’s WISE mission! What will you find?
https://t.co/KDDthAFgvI

@SciStarter @scifri @backyardworlds @newarkmuseumart @DoNASAScience
#CitSciMonth #CitizenScience