User:Meli thev

I am an astronomy volunteer and I am a co-author of multiple publications. My research area involves brown dwarfs, white dwarfs, debris disks and occasionally galaxies. I like to listen to J-pop and I am a fan of Yamamoto Sayaka.

My fable with spacecrafts
I do not only like space, but also the space telescopes and space probes that explore the universe and the solar system. One of my favourite space telescopes is Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and one of my favourite space probes is Hayabusa2 (はやぶさ2). I prefer to see the real space telescopes in the cleanroom and less the rendering that space agencies often show.

Community Science
I did co-discover the infrared excess around the white dwarf star LSPM J0207+3331, one of the exoplanets around K2-138 and more exoplanets. I discovered active photoevaporation of two young M-stars with circumstellar disks in the star cluster Collinder 69 using Spitzer Space Telescope images. I am one of the galaxy zoo volunteers that is actively searching for Voorwerpjes (watch this space). I also do actively search for brown dwarfs, which are being observed by researchers of the backyard worlds collaboration (more results to come in the future).

One of my past activities involve being a website moderator at a Zooniverese project, called the Milky Way Project. Beside my Zooniverse activities I am also involving myself in other projects, such as iNaturatlist and NASA's Landslide Reporter. My laptop is thinking hard about questions coming from SETI@Home, Einstein@Home and Rosetta@Home.

Creating images
I consider it more of a hobby to create images and gifs out of astronomical data and satellite images. Such as an asteroid in front of the crab nebula.

Wikipedia edits
I mostly edit wikipedia pages that already exist. And sometimes I create a new wikipedia article, such as
 * HD 222259
 * Price-Whelan 1
 * Peter Pan disk
 * the Teacup galaxy
 * 2M1101AB
 * PCEB
 * HD 101584
 * W2150AB
 * LTT 1445
 * Barnard 30
 * HH 1/2
 * List of nearby stellar associations and moving groups
 * V1298 Tauri
 * HH 111
 * HH 24-26
 * 2MASS J11263991−5003550
 * 2M1510
 * Tucana-Horologium association
 * Columba association
 * ASTELCO
 * AK Scorpii
 * Barnard 203