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Pulsar Hunters

[ UUID ] 640be4df-6f00-4766-b60d-ac9f66a8ecf9

[ Session Name ] Pulsar Hunters [ Primary Space ] Openness [ Secondary Space ] Decentralisation

[ Submitter's Name ] Rachael Ainsworth [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics [ Submitter's GitHub ] @rainsworth

[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] Sally Cooper [ Other Facilitator 1's GitHub ] @sallyemmacooper

[ Other Facilitator 2's Name ] Mateusz Malenta [ Other Facilitator 2's GitHub ] @mmalenta

[ Other Facilitator 3's Name ] Benjamin Shaw

What will happen in your session?

The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics needs your help in our search for pulsars - really dense dead spinning stars. Faced with tens of thousands of pulsar candidates, we need your help to identify interesting patterns in the data to improve our machine learning classifier and tell us which pulsars we should point our telescopes at again!

Pulsar Hunters is an interactive Open Science installation where participants can learn in person about pulsar signals from Jodrell Bank researchers and contribute to classifying real data taken with the LOFAR Telescope. As part of a global citizen science project, you can make a significant contribution to our scientific endeavor and share your feedback directly with the scientists.

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/pulsar-hunters

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

During the event, our goals are

  • to meet a daily target of classifications (e.g. 1500 per day),
  • demystify the science behind pulsars through the use of 3D printed models,
  • engage with a non-standard audience, and
  • active feedback directly between participants and scientists.

The outcomes of the session will be

Time needed

All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session