NASA-funded citizen science project searching the realm beyond Neptune for brown dwarfs and Planet Nine. This account is managed by AMNH.
Joined February 2017
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28 Jan 2023
We published a new paper!
16 Jan 2023
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. arxiv.org/abs/2301.02322 @caltechipac @backyardworlds
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13 Jan 2023
Go, Austin! #aas241
13 Jan 2023
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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13 Jan 2023
It's been a busy #aas241!
13 Jan 2023
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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12 Jan 2023
Congratulations, Leopold!!
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10 Jan 2023
We’re at the American Astronomical Society meeting! @jfaherty @telmahsel @dancaselden @CoolNeighbors #aas241
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14 Dec 2022
Our own @karmeliet64 is featured in this new discussing the search for Planet 9! In French/German. arte.tv/fr/videos/093652-000…
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24 Nov 2022
Happy Thanksgiving to all our volunteers! We're grateful for your hard work and your creative ideas!
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6 Nov 2022
Read all about my cofounder in this NYT profile!
6 Nov 2022
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!!!! nyti.ms/3T8Trd8
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5 Nov 2022
Congratulations to Leopold for this beautiful piece of scientific detective work!!
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21 Sep 2022
That's our science team member Dr. Eileen Gonzales! Way to go, Eileen!!
20 Sep 2022
Big congrats to @EGonzales788 for winning this year’s #Cornell Postdoc Award for Excellence in Leadership @BlackInPhysics
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11 Jul 2022
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
11 Jul 2022
Did you know members of the public have already won time on the James Webb Space Telescope? Go @NASAWebb #citizenscience! science.nasa.gov/science-new…
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16 Jun 2022
Check out our new research note! It’s about a funky triple system: a white dwarf around an eclipsing binary. Congratulations, Tom!!!!
16 Jun 2022
Sooo I wrote a thing iopscience.iop.org/article/1…
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14 Jun 2022
Yadu, Hunter, Davy, Aaron, and Fede are talking Backyard Worlds at this week’s #AAS240 American Astronomical Society meeting!
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6 Jun 2022
Go @telmahsel!!
2 Jun 2022
"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: go.nasa.gov/3PZVQXk
#DoNASAScience
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12 May 2022
Congrats to Billy Pendrill for having his brown dwarf image featured in the new OSTP report on Prizes and Citizen Science! whitehouse.gov/wp-content/up…
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29 Apr 2022
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?
tinyurl.com/mssazypy
@SciStarter @scifri @backyardworlds @newarkmuseumart @DoNASAScience
#CitSciMonth #CitizenScience
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23 Apr 2022
You beat me to it, Arttu! Yup, check it out!!
22 Apr 2022
Paper time! We present 34 low-mass comoving systems using NSC. Awesome research demonstrading the power of open-source- and citizen sciences. Congrats to awesome Frank Kiwy, whole @backyardworlds -collaboration and thanks to @NOIRLabAstro arxiv.org/abs/2204.09739
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