Citizen Science used in the search of Gravitational Waves

[sjastro]

The recent Stargazing Live series on the ABC illustrated the power of Citizen Science in the discovery of exoplanets.
The discovery of Gravitational Waves in 2015 is hailed as one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science but is still a work in progress.
You can make a positive contribution for further discoveries in helping LIGO scientists in identifying noise sources that reduce the sensitivity of LIGO's interferometers.

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/gravity-spy

Steven

[Weltevreden SA]

When names like the authors of this paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2941v1) cite Galaxy Zoo as a primary source, it means something.

Over the last year I've seen at least a dozen papers use GZoo as a resource. That's more citations than a lot of Name observatories get.

=Dana in S Africa

[torsion]

Citizen Science is great and very powerful. The young field of gravitational wave astronomy has many more discoveries to uncover and gravity-spy is a great tool to get involved.

Data from the second observation run (O2) has been add, which is the latest and greatest (since the end of last year). The observatories have been off-line for a few weeks, to do a little maintenance, but are back online now.

cheers,
Bram