Adam McMaster

I’m an astronomy PhD student with the Open University studying variable stars in the SuperWASP all sky survey.

You can also find a list of my publications on ORCiD and ADS.

2022

  • Simmons, Brooke D., Chris Lintott, Steven Reece, Campbell Allen, Grant R. M. Miller, Rebekah Yore, David Jones, et al. ‘Disaster, Infrastructure and Participatory Knowledge: The Planetary Response Network’. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 7, no. 1 (19 May 2022): 21. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.392.
  • Norton, Andrew J., Hugh J. Dickinson, Adam McMaster, Matthew Middleton, and Richard G. West. ‘A SuperWASP Light Curve Displaying a Single Long-Duration Transit: A Jupiter Size Exoplanet in a Very Distant Orbit?’ Research Notes of the AAS 6, no. 4 (April 2022): 84. https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/ac6811.

2021

  • Adam McMaster et al., ‘VeSPA: The SuperWASP Variable Star Photometry Archive’, Research Notes of the AAS 5, no. 10 (October 2021): 228, https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/ac2de8.
  • Thiemann, Heidi B, Andrew J Norton, Hugh J Dickinson, Adam McMaster, and Ulrich C Kolb. ‘SuperWASP Variable Stars: Classifying Light Curves Using Citizen Science’. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 502, no. 1 (2 February 2021): 1299–1311. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab140.
  • Eisner, N L, O Barragán, C Lintott, S Aigrain, B Nicholson, T S Boyajian, S Howell, et al. ‘Planet Hunters TESS II: Findings from the First Two Years of TESS’. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 501, no. 4 (18 January 2021): 4669–90. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3739.

2020

  • Sonnenfeld, Alessandro, Aprajita Verma, Anupreeta More, Elisabeth Baeten, Christine Macmillan, Kenneth C. Wong, James H. H. Chan, et al. “Survey of Gravitationally-Lensed Objects in HSC Imaging (SuGOHI) - VI. Crowdsourced Lens Finding with Space Warps.” Astronomy & Astrophysics 642 (October 1, 2020): A148. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038067.

2019

  • Aye, K.-Michael, Megan E. Schwamb, Ganna Portyankina, Candice J. Hansen, Adam McMaster, Grant R.M. Miller, Brian Carstensen, et al. “Planet Four: Probing Springtime Winds on Mars by Mapping the Southern Polar CO2 Jet Deposits.” Icarus 319 (February 2019): 558–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2018.08.018.

2018

  • Portyankina, G., K. M. Aye, M. E. Schwamb, C. J. Hansen, A. McMaster, G. R. M. Miller, B. Carstensen, et al. “DBSCAN Hyperparameter Tuning for the Planet Four Citizen Science Project.” AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 41 (December 1, 2018). http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFM.P41D3770P.
  • Schwamb, Megan E., K.-Michael Aye, Ganna Portyankina, Candice Hansen, Chris J. Lintott, Adam McMaster, Grant R. Miller, et al. “Mapping Mars’ Southern Springtime Winds and Seasonal Polar Fans with Planet Four” 50 (October 1, 2018): 300.01. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018DPS....5030001S
  • Schwamb, Megan E., Klaus-Michael Aye, Ganna Portyankina, Candice J. Hansen, Campbell Allen, Sarah Allen, Fred J. Calef, Simone Duca, Adam McMaster, and Grant R. M. Miller. “Planet Four: Terrains – Discovery of Araneiforms Outside of the South Polar Layered Deposits.” Icarus, Mars Polar Science VI, 308 (July 1, 2018): 148–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2017.06.017.
  • Rosenthal, Isaac S., Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Kyle C. Cavanaugh, Tom W. Bell, Briana Harder, Alison J. Haupt, Andrew T. W. Rassweiler, et al. “Floating Forests: Quantitative Validation of Citizen Science Data Generated From Consensus Classifications.” ArXiv:1801.08522 [Physics, q-Bio], January 25, 2018. http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08522.
  • Christiansen, Jessie L., Ian J. M. Crossfield, Geert Barentsen, Chris J. Lintott, Thomas Barclay, Brooke D. Simmons, Erik Petigura, et al. “The K2-138 System: A Near-Resonant Chain of Five Sub-Neptune Planets Discovered by Citizen Scientists.” The Astronomical Journal 155, no. 2 (January 2018): 57. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa9be0.

2017

  • Wright, Darryl E., Chris J. Lintott, Stephen J. Smartt, Ken W. Smith, Lucy Fortson, Laura Trouille, Campbell R. Allen, et al. “A Transient Search Using Combined Human and Machine Classifications.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 472, no. 2 (December 1, 2017): 1315–23. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1812.

2015

  • R. Cartier, M. Smith, H. Campbell, A. De Cia, M. T. Botticella, C. Lintott, G. Miller, C. Allen, B. Carstensen, G. Hines, A. McMaster, R. J. Smethurst, E. Paget, C. Inserra, K. Maguire, S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, M. Sullivan, S. Valenti, O. Yaron, D. Young, I. Manulis, R. Scalzo, F. Yuan, M. Childress, B. Tucker, B. Schmidt, C. Baltay, N. Ellman, E. Hadjiyska, R. McKinnon, D. Rabinowitz, S. Rostami, U. Feindt, M. Kowalski, P. Nugent, PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients, Astronomer’s Telegram, No. 7261, 2015

  • H. Campbell, R. Cartier, M. Smith, J. Anderson, C. Inserra, C. Lintott, G. Miller, C. Allen, B. Carstensen, G. Hines, A. McMaster, E. Paget, K. Maguire, S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, M. Sullivan, S. Valenti, O. Yaron, D. Young, I. Manulis, D. Wright, K. Chambers, H. Flewelling, M. Huber, E. Magnier, J. Tonry, C. Waters, R. J. Wainscoat, PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients, Astronomer’s Telegram, No. 7254, 2015