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Searching for secondary schools to partner scientists with for #ORBYTS space research projects so thought I'd do a thread on all the things #ORBYTS students have discovered in the last 3 years that were published (although lots more discovered beyond this). In reverse chronology:
Lead by the @exolemons and many amazing @UCL exoplanetologists, school students at @LAEstratford , @HammersmithAcad, @ArkGlobeAcademy,Preston Manor School & @ForestSchoolE17 organised (thanks to @faulkestel) and analysed their own observations of exoplanets: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aba42b/meta?casa_token=0jNCMF8R2WsAAAAA:E1T8kVUp9MNePmWuSY-HY6jfRHM7gzLz8heFXKu7DVEpH4BqykifkFSBjOySO_QBjUrS-dYb
Artificial Intelligence wizard @_AliFrancis lead this incredible project in which the amazing Richard Collyer College's students tested the quality of neural network identification of structures on the surface of Mars, by cataloguing them:
https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/5/3/70
https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/5/3/70
The amazing students @StGilgenIS with their rock star chemistry teacher @declanfleming discovered bizarre lighthouse-like pulsations of aurora at Jupiter, during a solar storm in this paper lead by MSSL’s award-winning PhD student @AffeliaW : https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019JA027676
The @ExoLemons and @ucl exoplanetologist squad partnered with the super hard-working & insightful students from Beal High School & Preston Manor (with @faulkestel and @NASA_TESS) to observe & characterise planets orbiting other stars (e.g WASP-122b below): https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1245/5831727
Dr Jon Holdship partnered with some inspiring young scientists from @HammersmithAcad who, while studying spectra from protostars, discovered (and this still blows my mind) that the molecules found in coffee are born with stars: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1f8f https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2019/aug/cosmic-coffee-students-discover-stardust-and-coffee-share-same-molecules
@exomol's fantastic @DDarbyLewis worked with the ever-amazing students at Preston Manor school to study the molecule NH, and identified 1000s of transitions corresponding to different possible fingerprint spectral lines : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022285219300979#f0015
Inspirational @katychubb partnered with our most prolific publishing school students from @HPphysics to produce a list of (
) tens of thousands of @exomol rovibrational spectral lines for C2H2: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022407317305745?via%3Dihub
Look at all the components in their spectroscopic network!
) tens of thousands of @exomol rovibrational spectral lines for C2H2: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022407317305745?via%3DihubLook at all the components in their spectroscopic network!
