Dive into fresh CHEOPS light curves! Your classifications are needed now to hunt for shallow transits and multi-planet systems. Every dip you spot brings us closer to finding Earth-like neighbors. Start classifying today!
The Team
@sara.marques - Ph.D. student at the University of Bern on Machine Learning and planetary sciences. She has experience participating to other citizen science projects and will lead the scientific analysis.
@sarvesh_bhogaokar - a Master's student in Astrophysics at the University of Potsdam, working on applying machine learning to Exoplanet Datasets. He will contribute to the study.
@gond - Recent high-school graduate from Niccolò Copernico in Prato, with experience in citizen science projects and light curve analysis as an amateur. He will participate to the study.
@alexis.brandeker - Associate professor at Stockholm University working on exoplanet characterisation and member of the CHEOPS science team. He developed PIPE, the PSF-fitting pipeline that we have used on this project to extract all the light-curves from targetted and background stars for the project.
@sandorkruk - Data Scientist at ESA with experience in citizen science projects and member of the Zooniverse team. He will contribute to the statistical analysis of the scientific results.
@billot - Scientist at the University of Geneva with strong experience with the CHEOPS mission, former manager of teh Science Operations Centre and expert in the CHEOPS data products. He will support the team with instrumental expertise.
Sofia Kalamatianou-Platymesi - Ph.D. Student at the University of Oxford, active member of the research team in Planet Hunters TESS and expert in the CHEOPS data as part of her Thesis. She contributes experience from the Planet Hunters TESS project and will participate to the scientific analysis of the results.
@kgaze - Lecturer of Observational Astrophysics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in Greece. Kosmas is an expert in eclipsing binary stars, supernovae, blazars, black holes and other exotic objects in our Universe, while he works in parallel with asteroids and other small bodies in our Solar System, asteroseismology, on various space technology topics, applied optics and astronomical instrumentation. He will act as expert advisor in eclipsing binaries and other variable stars.
@bruno.merin - CHEOPS Project Scientist at ESA (ESAC), with experience in citizen science projects and science data archives. He coordinates the project and participates to the study of the findings from the volunteers.
