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We present the discovery of activity emanating from main-belt asteroid 2015 FW412, a finding stemming from the Citizen Science project Active Asteroids, a NASA Partner program. We identified a pronounced tail originating from 2015 FW412 and…

We report on the serendipitous observations of Solar System objects imaged during the High cadence Transient Survey (HiTS) 2014 observation campaign. Data from this high cadence, wide field survey was originally analyzed for finding…

We report follow-up observations of 477 program Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) using nine telescopes of the EURONEAR network having apertures between 0.3 and 4.2 m. Adding these NEAs to our previous results we now count 739 program NEAs…

Dormant comets in the near-Earth object (NEO) population are thought to be involved in the terrestrial accretion of water and organic materials. Identification of dormant comets is difficult as they are observationally indistinguishable…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Quan-Zhi Ye , Peter G. Brown , Petr Pokorný

Asteroid search is a global effort for planetary defense. The International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) is the leading global educational outreach program that provides high-quality astronomical datasets to citizen scientists…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-08-08 Miracle Chibuzor Marcel , Kassamba Abdel Aziz Diaby , Meryem Guennoun , Betty Rose Nabifo , Mohamed Elattar , Andoniaina Rajaonarivelo , Privatus Pius , Molly Nkamogelang Kgobathe , Immanuel Luis , Sigrid Shilunga , Nejmeddine Etteyeb , Keketso Qhomane , Samuel Nyangi , Tresford Chilufya Kalunga , Nunes Alfredo Assano , Edson Domingos Jequecene , Mafuka Lusala Joseph , Esaenwi Sudum , Jorbedom Leelabari Gerald , Christopher Tombe Louis Gore , Kareem Waleed Hosny , Nagat Yasser , Jocelyn Franck , Mamoudou Kourouma , Baboucarr Bobb , Kebab Jaiteh , Salma Sylla , Hans Essone Obame , Dennis Kiyeng , Thobekile Sandra Ngwanw , Tawanda Kelvin Simon , Saja Alhoush Sulayman , Salma Regaibi , Souley Yahaya , Tengwi Mogou Ornela , Henry Sanderson Viyuyi , Fortune Tatenda Matambo , Matthias Asare-Darko , Christian Kontoa Koussouwa Gbaba , Moisés da Silva , Ntahompagaze Joseph , Gilberto Gomes , Bongiwe Portia Mkhabela , Bauleni Bvumbwe , Tshombe Nkhowani , Mawugnon Axel Gahou , Sarah Abotsi-Masters , René Simbizi , Salomon Mugisha , Ahmed Saeed , Mohammed Yahya Alradi Eldaw , Allen Thomas , Ben Abdallah ridha , Dieumerci kaseha , Sherine Ahmed El Baradei , Nahla Hazem Hussein , Bado Fabrice , Ngozika Frances Anekwe , Arvind Ramessur , Mohamed Ali Koroma , Harold Safary , Oosthuizen Leonardo , Mdumiseni Wisdom Dabulizwe Dlamini , Mamadou Mahamat Djabbi , Nonofo Angela , Mamaja Jalloh , Mamadou Balde , Joy Olayiwola , Elijah Ibharalu , Thierry Martial Tchangole , Kirubel Memberu , Lidia Dinsa , Chidozie Gospel Ezeakunne

Although many near-Earth objects have been found by ground-based telescopes, some fast-moving ones, especially those near detection limits, have been missed by observatories. We developed a convolutional neural network for detecting faint…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Franklin Wang , Jian Ge , Kevin Willis

The engagement of Citizen Scientists with the HiggsHunters.org citizen science project is investigated through analysis of behaviour, discussion, and survey data. More than 37,000 Citizen Scientists from 179 countries participated,…

Popular Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 Alan James Barr , Andrew C Haas , Charles William Kalderon

We announce the first public release of the SDSS Moving Object Catalog, with SDSS observations for 58,117 asteroids. The catalog lists astrometric and photometric data for moving objects observed prior to Dec 15, 2001, and also includes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-07 Z. Ivezic , M. Juric , R. H. Lupton , S. Tabachnik , T. Quinn

The Disk Detective citizen science project aims to find new stars with 22 micron excess emission from circumstellar dust using data from NASA's WISE mission. Initial cuts on the AllWISE catalog provide an input catalog of 277,686 sources.…

We present the second results from Citizen ASAS-SN, a citizen science project for the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) hosted on the Zooniverse platform. Citizen ASAS-SN tasks users with classifying variable stars based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-16 O. Kotrach , C. S. Kochanek , C. T. Christy , T. Jayasinghe , K. Z. Stanek , D. M. Rowan , J. L. Prieto , B. J. Shappee

Centaurs are minor planets thought to have originated in the outer Solar System region known as the Kuiper Belt. Active Centaurs enigmatically display comet-like features (e.g., tails, comae) even though they orbit in the gas giant region…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Colin Orion Chandler , Jay K. Kueny , Chadwick A. Trujillo , David E. Trilling , William J. Oldroyd

We present archival observations of Main-belt asteroid (248370) 2005 QN173 (also designated 433P) that demonstrate this recently discovered active asteroid (a body with a dynamically asteroidal orbit displaying a tail or coma) has had at…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Colin Orion Chandler , Chadwick A. Trujillo , Henry H. Hsieh

We review the relatively new, internet-enabled, and rapidly-evolving field of citizen science, focusing on research projects in stellar, extragalactic and solar system astronomy that have benefited from the participation of members of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Philip J. Marshall , Chris J. Lintott , Leigh N. Fletcher

We propose a low-cost robotic optical survey aimed at $1-300$ m Near Earth Objects (NEO) based on four state-of-the-art telescopes having extremely wide field of view. The small Near-Earth Asteroids (NEA) represent a potential risk but also…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-29 P. Vereš , J. Tóth , R. Jedicke , J. Tonry , L. Denneau , R. Wainscoat , L. Kornoš , J. Šilha

We present fluxes and light curves for a population of asteroids at millimeter (mm) wavelengths, detected by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) over 18, 000 deg2 of the sky using data from 2017 to 2021. We utilize high cadence maps,…

The known near-Earth object (NEO) population consists of over 32,000 objects, with a yearly discovery rate of over 3000 NEOs per year. An essential component of the next generation of NEO surveys is an understanding of the population of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Tommy Grav , Amy K. Mainzer , Joseph R. Masiero , Dar W. Dahlen , Tim Spahr , William F. Bottke , Frank J. Masci

The organization of the orbits of most minor bodies in the Solar system seems to follow random patterns, the result of billions of years of chaotic dynamical evolution. Much as heterogeneous orbital behaviour is ubiquitous, dynamically…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-08 C. de la Fuente Marcos , R. de la Fuente Marcos

We present the first analysis of results from the SuperWASP Variable Stars Zooniverse project, which is aiming to classify 1.6 million phase-folded light curves of candidate stellar variables observed by the SuperWASP all sky survey with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Heidi B. Thiemann , Andrew J. Norton , Hugh J. Dickinson , Adam McMaster , Ulrich C. Kolb

Over the past decade, Citizen Science has become a proven method of distributed data analysis, enabling research teams from diverse domains to solve problems involving large quantities of data with complexity levels which require human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Lucy Fortson , Darryl Wright , Chris Lintott , Laura Trouille

Asteroids detection is a very important research field that received increased attention in the last couple of decades. Some major surveys have their own dedicated people, equipment and detection applications, so they are discovering Near…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-10 D. Copandean , C. Nandra , D. Gorgan , O. Vaduvescu