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PLANET HUNTERS. X. SEARCHING FOR NEARBY NEIGHBORS OF 75 PLANET AND ECLIPSING BINARY CANDIDATES FROM THE K2 KEPLER EXTENDED MISSION

ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 151:6 (2016) ARTN 159

Authors:

JR Schmitt, A Tokovinin, J Wang, DA Fischer, MH Kristiansen, DM LaCourse, R Gagliano, AJV Tan, HM Schwengeler, MR Omohundro, A Venner, I Terentev, AR Schmitt, TL Jacobs, T Winarski, J Sejpka, KJ Jek, TS Boyajian, JM Brewer, ST Ishikawa, C Lintott, S Lynn, K Schawinski, ME Schwamb, A Weiksnar

Playing with science

Aslib Journal of Information Management Emerald 68:3 (2016) 306-325

Authors:

Anita Greenhill, Kate Holmes, Jamie Woodcock, Chris Lintott, Brooke D Simmons, Gary Graham, Joe Cox, Eun Young Oh, Karen Masters

BROAD [C Pi] LINE WINGS AS TRACER OF MOLECULAR AND MULTI-PHASE OUTFLOWS IN INFRARED BRIGHT GALAXIES

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 822:1 (2016) ARTN 43

Authors:

AW Janssen, N Christopher, E Sturm, S Veilleux, A Contursi, E Gonzalez-Alfonso, J Fischer, R Davies, A Verma, J Gracia-Carpio, R Genzel, D Lutz, A Sternberg, L Tacconi, L Burtscher, A Poglitsch

Planet Hunters IX. KIC 8462852-where's the flux?

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 457:4 (2016) 3988-4004

Authors:

TS Boyajian, DM LaCourse, SA Rappaport, D Fabrycky, DA Fischer, D Gandolfi, GM Kennedy, H Korhonen, MC Liu, A Moor, K Olah, K Vida, MC Wyatt, WMJ Best, J Brewer, F Ciesla, B Csak, HJ Deeg, TJ Dupuy, G Handler, K Heng, SB Howell, ST Ishikawa, J Kovacs, T Kozakis, L Kriskovics, J Lehtinen, C Lintott, S Lynn, D Nespral, S Nikbakhsh, K Schawinski, JR Schmitt, AM Smith, G Szabo, R Szabo, J Viuho, J Wang, A Weiksnar, M Bosch, JL Connors, S Goodman, G Green, AJ Hoekstra, T Jebson, KJ Jek, MR Omohundro, HM Schwengeler, A Szewczyk

Science learning via participation in online citizen science

Journal of Science Communication Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati 15:3 (2016) A07

Authors:

Karen Masters, Eun Y Oh, Joe Cox, Brooke Simmons, Christopher Lintott, Gary Graham, Anita Greenhill, Kate Holmes

Abstract:

We investigate the development of scientific content knowledge of volunteers participating in online citizen science projects in the Zooniverse (www.zooniverse.org). We use econometric methods to test how measures of project participation relate to success in a science quiz, controlling for factors known to correlate with scientific knowledge. Citizen scientists believe they are learning about both the content and processes of science through their participation. We don鈥檛 directly test the latter, but we find evidence to support the former - that more actively engaged participants perform better in a project-specific science knowledge quiz, even after controlling for their general science knowledge. We interpret this as evidence of learning of science content inspired by participation in online citizen science.