Researchers Turn to "Citizen Scientists" for Help Identifying Gravitational Waves
Tuesday, January 10, 2017 - 18:01
in Astronomy & Space
Dr. Tyson Littenberg, a research astrophysicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and an adjunct professor in the Department of Space Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), is among a team of researchers who have launched "Gravity Spy," a crowdsourcing platform that tasks volunteer citizen scientists with sifting through LIGO data and identifying "families" of glitches that can be sorted by machine-learning algorithms.