Follow-up Imaging of Disk Candidates from the Disk Detective Citizen Science Project: New Discoveries and False Positives in WISE Circumstellar Disk Surveys

• Published in: The Astrophysical journal Vol. 868; no. 1; pp. 43 - 57
• Main Authors: Silverberg, Steven M., Kuchner, Marc J., Wisniewski, John P., Bans, Alissa S., Debes, John H., Kenyon, Scott J., Baranec, Christoph, Riddle, Reed, Law, Nicholas, Teske, Johanna K., Burns-Kaurin, Emily, Bosch, Milton K. D., Cernohous, Tadeas, Doll, Katharina, Durantini Luca, Hugo A., Hyogo, Michiharu, Hamilton, Joshua, Finnemann, Johanna J. S., Lau, Lily
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia The American Astronomical Society 20.11.2018; IOP Publishing
• Subjects: Accretion disks; Adaptive control; Adaptive optics; Astrometry; Astrophysics; Binary systems; Candidates; Circumstellar dust; Cosmic dust; Dust; Extrasolar planets; Image classification; infrared: planetary systems; methods: data analysis; Object recognition; Observatories; Optics; Planet detection; protoplanetary disks; Searching; Signal to noise ratio; surveys; Target recognition; Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

The Disk Detective citizen science project aims to find new stars with excess 22 m emission from circumstellar dust in the AllWISE data release from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. We evaluated 261 Disk Detective objects of interest with imaging with the Robo-AO adaptive optics instrument o...