Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors

We have thoroughly classified ~100,000 ultracool dwarf candidates, and discovered many previously unknown movers, some of which we are writing up for publication and following up with dedicated telescope observations!

Cool Neighbors now has two publications presenting discoveries from our project!

(1) "Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors-Post-launch Performance and a First Proper Motion Discovery", Robbins, G. ; Meisner, A. M. ; Humphreys, A. ; Schapera, E. ; Caselden, D. ; Kirkpatrick, J. D. ; Schneider, A. C. ; Alexandrov, S. ; Bickle, T. P. ; Kabatnik, M. ; Schumann, J. ; da Silva, C. M. ; Tanner, C. ; Johnson, L. C. ; Kuchner, M. J. ; Faherty, J. K. ; Casewell, S. L. ; Marocco, F. ; Burgasser, A. J. (2024).
(2) "High Proper Motion Object Discoveries from the Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors Citizen Science Project" Y. Wood et al. (2025)