Students as Citizen Scientists: Observations and Measurements of 43 Exoplanet Targets
Volume 52 number 2 (2024)
- Jett Peters
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063; jettpeters2@gmail.com
- Sabine Mazzeo
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063; sabinemazzeo@gmail.com
- Alex Hamrick
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063; alexanderhamrick@gmail.com
- Leon Bewersdorff
- OurSky, 206 Wirt Street NW, Leesburg, VA 20176
- Nick Hardy
- OurSky, 206 Wirt Street NW, Leesburg, VA 20176
- Dave Rowe
- PlaneWave Instruments, 1375 North Main Street, Adrian, MI 49221
- Maiya Qiu
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063, and Princeton High School, 151 Moore Street, Princeton, NJ 08540
- Emerson Tiller
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Mia Ella Antonio
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Pierce Arora
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Reid Barry
- The Salisbury School, 251 Canaan Road, Salisbury, CT 06068
- Ella Barthel
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Sophia Bhatti
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Kavi Bidlack
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063, and Design Tech High School, 275 Oracle Parkway, Redwood City, CA 94065
- Nathan Bowman
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Corbin Breeden
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Madeleine Cheung
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Nicholas Dunn
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063, and Wellington College, Duke's Ride, Berkshire, Crowthorne, RG45 7PU, UK
- Atria Freeman
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Kyler Gandrup
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Kiera Higgins
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Amiya Iqbal
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Duncan Keefe
- Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
- Cole Kim
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007
- Eden (Songxiao) Li
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Denis Levine
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Elina Lobanov
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Jules Miller
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Morgan Mescher
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Khensa Musaddequr Rahman
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- William O’Donnell
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Kingsley Panigrahi
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Lily Parry
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Nicholas Peh
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Michael Pylypovych
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063, and Bergen County Academies, 200 Hackensack Avenue, Hackensack, NJ 07601
- Tala Reyes
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Hannah Hyeonseo Ryou
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Sage Sawhney
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Zoe Schurman
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Karthikeya Vattem
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Leonid Vishnevskiy
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Weston Yoo
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Fenton Zarlengo
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- David Oparko
- University of California, Berkeley, University Avenue and, Oxford St, Berkeley, CA 94720, and Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063
- Kalée Tock
- Stanford Online High School, 415 Broadway Academy Hall, Floor 2, 8853, Redwood City, CA 94063, kaleeg@stanford.edu
- Pat Boyce
- Boyce Research Initiatives and Education Foundation, San Diego, CA 92106
- Scott Dixon
- San Diego Astronomy Association, San Diego, California, 91905
Abstract
The Stanford Online High School Astrophysics and Astrobiology classes contributed to citizen science by reducing new exoplanet transit observations. The transit data sets used in this study were provided by multiple organizations. These include PlaneWave Instruments, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, the Harvard-Smithsonian MicroObservatory, and the Boyce-Astro Robotic Observatory. Forty-three exoplanets were observed, and their transits were measured by the students using Exoplanet Watch’s EXOTIC software. The EXOTIC output files were submitted to the American Association of Variable Star Observers Exoplanet Database and scraped by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Exoplanet Watch project.