Adam McMaster

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

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Last week I gave an update on the Black Hole Hunters project to the REINFORCE workshop, Fostering citizens’ role in the advance of ground-breaking research in fundamental physics. Just in time for my talk, the project reached 2 million classifications on the Zooniverse! I’m currently working on building the analysis pipeline to see what the Zooniverse volunteers have found.

A PDF of the slides is available.

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