{"paper":{"title":"Bursts from Space: MeerKAT - The first citizen science project dedicated to commensal radio transients","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.GA","astro-ph.IM"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","authors_text":"Alexander J. van der Horst, Alex Andersson, B. Stewart, Chloe Tworek, Chris Lintott, Davide Iannone, David R. A. Williams, Evangelia Tremou, Francesco Carotenuto, Ian Heywood, Isabelle Whittle, Jeffrey Smith, Joe Bright, Jonas Andersson, Karla Lahoz, Kelebogile Gaseahalwe, Kyle J. Melville, Laura Driessen, Lauren Rhodes, Leticia Navarro, Lizzeth Ruiz Arroyo, Lo\\\"ic Baert, Marianne De Sousa Nascimento, Mathilde Espinasse, Matthew Baumann, Najma Rahman, Newton Temoke, Patrick Woudt, Paul Groot, Paul Vreeswijk, Payaswini Saikia, Piilonen, Rachel Ann Grenier, Rob Fender, Sai Parthasarathi, Sara Motta, Sauro Gaudenzi, Stefano Giarratana, Steven Bloemen, Thorsten Eschweiler, Tim Forsythe, Wilfried Domainko, Xian Zhang","submitted_at":"2023-04-27T12:53:38Z","abstract_excerpt":"The newest generation of radio telescopes are able to survey large areas with high sensitivity and cadence, producing data volumes that require new methods to better understand the transient sky. Here we describe the results from the first citizen science project dedicated to commensal radio transients, using data from the MeerKAT telescope with weekly cadence. Bursts from Space: MeerKAT was launched late in 2021 and received ~89000 classifications from over 1000 volunteers in 3 months. Our volunteers discovered 142 new variable sources which, along with the known transients in our fields, all"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2304.14157","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2304.14157/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}