Project Description
Use the Disk Detective project to identify the disks around nearby stars where planets may be forming.
Go to https://whttps://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ssilverberg/disk-detective/classify (links to an external site) (Links to an external site.)
Select the “Tutorial” tab. For each potential planet host, you will press the ‘play’ button to click through a few images of the same star taken with different telescopes. You can manually click through the images using the round buttons on the bottom. You will be asked to identify if the star has a suitable debris disk around it (if the disk is round and contained within the outer circle in all the telescope images), or to identify potential spikes or image artifacts, or if the image extends beyond the circles. Pay attention to the name of the telescope in the top of the image, as this will help you identify potential problems with the images.
After completing the tutorial, analyze 5 potential stars. Take screenshots of all the telescope images for your candidate star (12 per task), to help justify your classification of the potential debris disk.
What to Include in your Project Submission
Include a single image, which is a collage of the 12 images for each of your five potential debris disks. You should have a total of 5×12 images combined in your submission. For each of the 5 potential debris disks, mark the image that was most useful in determining your classification of the disk.
The answers to the below reflection questions for each of your potential debris disks.
Any references you used.