I am an astronomy volunteer and I am a co-author of multiple publications. My research area involves brown dwarfs, white dwarfs, debris disks and occasionally galaxies. I like to listen to J-pop and I am a fan of Yamamoto Sayaka.
My fable with spacecrafts
editI do not only like space, but also the space telescopes and space probes that explore the universe and the solar system. One of my favourite space telescopes is Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and one of my favourite space probes is Hayabusa2 (はやぶさ2). I prefer to see the real space telescopes in the cleanroom and less the rendering that space agencies often show.
Gallery favourite spacecrafts and telescopes
edit- Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer before launch. It became one of the most important telescopes in my research.
- The Spitzer Space Telescope is also quite important for my research.
- The Dark Energy Camera helped me reveal Voorwerpjes
- A full scale model of Hayabusa2
Community Science
editI did co-discover the infrared excess around the white dwarf star LSPM J0207+3331[1][2], one of the exoplanets around K2-138[3] and more exoplanets[4]. I discovered active photoevaporation of two young M-stars with circumstellar disks in the star cluster Collinder 69 using Spitzer Space Telescope images.[5] I am one of the galaxy zoo volunteers that is actively searching for Voorwerpjes (watch this space). I also do actively search for brown dwarfs, which are being observed by researchers of the backyard worlds collaboration (more results to come in the future).[6]
One of my past activities involve being a website moderator at a Zooniverese project, called the Milky Way Project.[7] Beside my Zooniverse activities I am also involving myself in other projects, such as iNaturatlist and NASA's Landslide Reporter. My laptop is thinking hard about questions coming from SETI@Home, Einstein@Home and Rosetta@Home.
Gallery research
edit- Artist's impression of LSPM J0207+3331, which I helped to discover
- The exoplanets around K2-138
- The region around Collinder 69 seen by WISE. A region that was important for my research.
- The Teacup galaxy with a Voorwerpje. Our current sample has also spectacular examples.
Creating images
editI consider it more of a hobby to create images and gifs out of astronomical data and satellite images. Such as an asteroid in front of the crab nebula.[8][9]
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Wikipedia edits
editI mostly edit wikipedia pages that already exist. And sometimes I create a new wikipedia article, such as
References
edit- ^ Debes, John H.; Thévenot, Melina; Kuchner, Marc; Burgasser, Adam; Schneider, Adam; Meisner, Aaron; Gagné, Jonathan; Faherty, Jaqueline K.; Rees, Jon M.; Allen, Michaela; Caselden, Dan; Cushing, Michael; Wisniewski, John; Allers, Katelyn; The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Collaboration; the Disk Detective Collaboration (2019-02-19). "A 3 Gyr White Dwarf with Warm Dust Discovered via the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project". The Astrophysical Journal. 872 (2): L25. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab0426. ISSN 2041-8213.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Garner, Rob (2019-02-19). "Citizen Scientist Finds Ancient White Dwarf Star With Puzzling Rings". NASA. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
- ^ "Exoplanet Explorers - About - Zooniverse". www.zooniverse.org. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Zink, Jon K.; Hardegree-Ullman, Kevin K.; Christiansen, Jessie L.; Crossfield, Ian J. M.; Petigura, Erik A.; Lintott, Chris J.; Livingston, John H.; Ciardi, David R.; Barentsen, Geert; Dressing, Courtney D.; Ye, Alexander; Schlieder, Joshua E.; Acres, Kevin; Ansorge, Peter; Arienti, Dario; Baeten, Elisabeth; Canales Cerdá, Victoriano; Chitsiga, Itayi; Daly, Maxwell; Damboiu, James; Ende, Martin; Erdag, Adnan; Evstatiev, Stiliyan; Henderson, Joseph; Hine, David; Hoffman, Tony; Lambrou, Emmanuel; Murawski, Gabriel; Nicholson, Mark; Russell, Mason; Schwengeler, Hans Martin; Spencer, Alton; Tagliabue, Aaron; Tanner, Christopher; Thévenot, Melina; Unsworth, Christine; Uusi-Simola, Jouni (28 February 2019). "Catalog of New K2 Exoplanet Candidates from Citizen Scientists". Research Notes of the AAS. 3 (2): 43. doi:10.3847/2515-5172/ab0a02. ISSN 2515-5172.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Thévenot, Melina; Doll, Katharina; Luca, Hugo A. Durantini (15 July 2019). "Photoevaporation of Two Proplyds in the Star Cluster Collinder 69 Discovered with Spitzer MIPS". Research Notes of the AAS. 3 (7): 95. doi:10.3847/2515-5172/ab30c5. ISSN 2515-5172.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ marckuchner2014, Author (2019-07-15). "One Hundred Thirty-One Brown Dwarfs". Backyard Worlds: Planet 9. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
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has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Jayasinghe, Tharindu; Dixon, Don; Povich, Matthew S.; Binder, Breanna; Velasco, Jose; Lepore, Denise M.; Xu, Duo; Offner, Stella; Kobulnicky, Henry A.; Anderson, Loren D.; Kendrew, Sarah; Simpson, Robert J. (2019-09-01). "The Milky Way Project Second Data Release: Bubbles and Bow Shocks". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488 (1): 1141–1165. doi:10.1093/mnras/stz1738. ISSN 0035-8711.
- ^ "Foreground asteroid passing the Crab Nebula". www.esa.int. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
- ^ [email protected]. "Asteroid in the Crab Nebula (M1)". www.spacetelescope.org. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
External Links
edit- https://isolatedplanetsarchive.wordpress.com/ my website
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5284-9231 my ORCID
- Citizen Scientist Finds Ancient White Dwarf Star Encircled by Puzzling Rings press-release featuring our discovery
- Foreground asteroid passing the Crab Nebula An image that I did create was featured as the "Space Science image of the week" on the ESA website