Rubin彗星探测者

Core Research Team

Colin Orion Chandler
Colin Orion Chandler 博士是本项目的创始人，担任首席研究员（Principal Investigator）。他目前是华盛顿大学 LSST 跨学科协作与计算框架（LINCC Frameworks）的项目科学家，以及数据密集型天体物理与宇宙学研究所（DiRAC Institute）的博士后学者。（LSST 指的是维拉·鲁宾天文台的“太空与时间遗产巡天”计划。）Colin 最初在担任北亚利桑那大学的总统研究员（Presidential Fellow）期间提出本项目，并获得了享有盛誉的美国国家科学基金会研究生奖学金项目（NSF GRFP）资助。他还担任 LSST 太阳系科学合作组（SSSC）的联合主席。

张津硕（Jinshuo Zhang）
项目科学家张津硕（华盛顿大学 DiRAC 研究所）是一名主修物理与天文学的本科生。他专注于活跃小行星研究，并参与了 Rubin 彗星捕手项目的设计工作，已开始为 活跃小行星 项目使用阿帕奇点天文台 3.5 米望远镜进行观测，并参与了 Rubin 彗星探测者项目的建设！他同时也是本项目中文页面的翻译者。

Devanshi Singh
项目科学家 Devanshi Singh（华盛顿大学 DiRAC 研究所）是一名主修物理与天文学的本科生。她专注于太阳系天体，如小行星，并将协助使用阿帕奇点天文台的 ARC 3.5 米望远镜，对 Rubin 彗星探测者项目中发现的感兴趣天体进行后续观测。

Max Frissell
项目科学家 Max Frissell（华盛顿大学 DiRAC 研究所）即将进入北亚利桑那大学攻读博士学位。Max 专注于观测潜在活跃天体和暗弱的海王星外天体（TNOs），并拥有在阿帕奇点天文台 ARC 3.5 米望远镜上进行观测的丰富经验。

Naomi Morato
项目科学家 Naomi Morato 是华盛顿大学计算机科学与天文学专业的学生，专长于用于天文相关下游任务的深度学习算法，例如对天体的分类与异常检测。

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Dr. Dmitrii Vavilov
Dmitrii 是太阳系动力学模拟方面的专家。他帮助我们分析由志愿者识别出的活跃天体最初来自哪里（例如柯伊伯带），以及它们未来可能会前往何处。

Jake Kurlander
Jake is a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington. Jake was instrumental in the initial creation of the cutout pipeline, providing guidance on the LSST software stack and offering insights into survey simulations with Sorcha.

Jay Kueny
Project Scientist Jay Kueny is an NSF GRFP recipient at the University of Arizona / Steward Observatory, and helped design the Active Asteroids program while at Lowell Observatory and Northern Arizona University.

Nima Sedaghat
Project Scientist Dr. Nima Sedaghat (University of Washington, DiRAC Institute, and founder of the Raw Data Speaks initiative) is an expert in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), especially machine vision.
Project Scientist Jarod A. DeSpain (Northern Arizona University) focuses on forum interaction and follow-up telescope observations.

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Mario Juric (DiRAC, University of Washington) is the lead of the Rubin Solar System Commissioning Team (Colin Chandler, Pedro Bernardinelli are members), and has provided extensive assistance in promoting the project and attaining funding.

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Andrew Connolly (eScience Institute, LINCC FW, DiRAC, University of Washington) has provided regular insights into the project, assisted with and facilitated funding proposals, promoted the program, and more.

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Clare Higgs is the NSF DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Education of Public Outreach Scientist.

Chad Trujillo
Project Scientist Prof. Chad Trujillo (Northern Arizona University) is the project's Chief Science Advisor.

Project Scientist Dr. William Oldroyd (Northern Arizona University) is part of the follow-up observation and analysis team. Will specializes in orbital dynamics and is an experienced observer with the Lowell Discovery Telescope and Large Binocular Telescope.

Project Scientist Prof. Henry H. Hsieh (Planetary Science Institute) specializes in active bodies of the solar system and is one of the top leaders in our field. Henry also has experience with Citizen Science projects, and leads a software working group at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Solar System Science Collaboration.

Will Burris
Project Scientist Will Burris, a graduate student at Northern Arizona University, specializes in the analysis of project classification data. Will also helps out with follow-up telescopic observations of objects of interest that stem from the project.

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Project Scientist Kennedy A. Farrell (Northern Arizona University) specializes in follow-up telescope observations on behalf of the program.

Dr. Mark Jesus Mendoza Magbanua is a geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, specializing in breast cancer, circulating tumor cell liquid biopsy, and genomic data science applications. As a scientist from an independent field of study, Mark offers a distinct perspective on the project that bridges the gap between Citizen and Scientist. Mark has also accompanied Colin Chandler on multiple telescope observation runs and has conducted his own observations for the project.

NASA Citizen Scientist Co-authors

These amazing individuals have contributed extensively to the project. All have classified an overwhelming majority of project images, and they regularly provide feedback on publications and other critical areas of project development.

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Contributors

Scott Sheppard (Carnegie Institute) is a regular contributor of invaluable telescope time at world-class telescopes.

Bryce Kalmach (DiRAC, University of Washington) helps us navigate the Rubin software system.

Colin Slater (DiRAC, University of Washington) regularly helps troubleshoot internal Rubin processes with the team.

David Wang (DiRAC, University of Washington) is a regular donor of telescope time.

Eric Bellm (DiRAC, University of Washington) is a regular donor of telescope time and provides insight into the Rubin Alert Stream process.

Michael Tauraso (LINCC FW, DiRAC, University of Washington) has assisted in our implementation of the LINCC Frameworks Hyrax AI system framework.

Wilson Beebe, Max West, Drew Oldag, and Aritra Ghosh (LINCC FW, DiRAC, University of Washington) have provided regular feedback on various aspects of the program and assisted in our AI endeavors.

Funding Sources

Chandler is funded by the LINCC Frameworks initiative, the NASA CSSFP (grant number pending), and was funded by the NSF GRFP under Grant No. (2018258765).
Bernardinelli, Chandler, Kurlander, Sedaghat, and Wainer acknowledge support from the DIRAC Institute in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. The DiRAC Institute is supported through generous gifts from the Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences, and the Washington Research Foundation.