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We are constantly submerged in signals coming from the stars and the depth of the Cosmos. It's awesome to stand listening to them to better understand the Universe surrounding us and cooperate to achieve better knowledge.
GWitchHuntersAbout GWitchHunters
GWITCHHUNTERS aims at improving the performance of current Gravitational Wave detectors in the experimental study of the Universe. Such instruments have reached extraordinary sensitivities to accomplish this task, but they are also very delicate and prone to spurious disturbances of non-astrophysical origin.
Our goal is to better understand their disturbances and find new solutions to them.
We are a team of researchers devoted to this very challenging task, involving state of the art technologies and analysis methods. It is not a simple one though, because of the extreme complexity of the apparatuses and their interconnections. For this reason, we need your help to join us in the exciting endeavour of Gravitational Wave research!
This project is part of REINFORCE (Research Infrastructures FOR Citizens in Europe).
REINFORCE aims to:
engage citizens in the contribution to online frontier science, create an active community of citizen participants in scientific endeavours, introduce responsible research and innovation into the citizen science landscape, assess the impact of citizen science in science and society, create a citizen science project policy roadmap for other large-scale research infrastructures, and explore the potential of frontier citizen science for inclusion and diversity.
4 REINFORCE projects are available in Zooniverse:
GWitchHunters
New Particle Search at CERN
Cosmic Muon Images
Deep Sea Explorers
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