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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Megan E. Schwamb is an American astronomer and planetary scientist, and lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast. Schwamb has discovered and co-discovered several trans-Neptunian objects, and is involved with Citizen science projects such as Planet Four and Planet Hunters.
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- LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products (2008) (1530)
- PLANET HUNTERS: A TRANSITING CIRCUMBINARY PLANET IN A QUADRUPLE STAR SYSTEM (2012) (186)
- Volunteering Versus Work for Pay: Incentives and Tradeoffs in Crowdsourcing (2013) (125)
- Planet Hunters: the first two planet candidates identified by the public using the Kepler public archive data (2011) (108)
- OSSOS. VII. 800+ Trans-Neptunian Objects—The Complete Data Release (2018) (78)
- THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM ORIGINS SURVEY. I. DESIGN AND FIRST-QUARTER DISCOVERIES (2015) (78)
- Reassessing the formation of the inner Oort cloud in an embedded star cluster (2011) (76)
- Col-OSSOS: Colors of the Interstellar Planetesimal 1I/‘Oumuamua (2017) (68)
- PROPERTIES OF THE DISTANT KUIPER BELT: RESULTS FROM THE PALOMAR DISTANT SOLAR SYSTEM SURVEY (2010) (67)
- The luminosity function of the hot and cold Kuiper belt populations (2010) (66)
- Repetitive patterns in rapid optical variations in the nearby black-hole binary V404 Cygni (2016) (66)
- An Oort cloud origin for the high-inclination, high-perihelion Centaurs (2011) (59)
- Correction: Corrigendum: All planetesimals born near the Kuiper belt formed as binaries (2017) (58)
- THE INFRARED LIGHT CURVE OF SN 2011fe IN M101 AND THE DISTANCE TO M101 (2012) (52)
- PLANET HUNTERS: ASSESSING THE KEPLER INVENTORY OF SHORT-PERIOD PLANETS (2012) (47)
- PLANET HUNTERS. V. A CONFIRMED JUPITER-SIZE PLANET IN THE HABITABLE ZONE AND 42 PLANET CANDIDATES FROM THE KEPLER ARCHIVE DATA (2013) (44)
- THE TAOS PROJECT: RESULTS FROM SEVEN YEARS OF SURVEY DATA (2013) (41)
- Col-OSSOS: z-Band Photometry Reveals Three Distinct TNO Surface Types (2017) (40)
- THE TAOS PROJECT: UPPER BOUNDS ON THE POPULATION OF SMALL KUIPER BELT OBJECTS AND TESTS OF MODELS OF FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM (2010) (39)
- PLANET HUNTERS. VII. DISCOVERY OF A NEW LOW-MASS, LOW-DENSITY PLANET (PH3 C) ORBITING KEPLER-289 WITH MASS MEASUREMENTS OF TWO ADDITIONAL PLANETS (PH3 B AND D) (2014) (38)
- PLANET HUNTERS. VI. AN INDEPENDENT CHARACTERIZATION OF KOI-351 AND SEVERAL LONG PERIOD PLANET CANDIDATES FROM THE KEPLER ARCHIVAL DATA (2013) (35)
- The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey: The Multi-Telescope Robotic Observatory (2008) (34)
- Re-assessing the formation of the inner Oort cloud in an embedded star cluster – II. Probing the inner edge (2014) (34)
- OSSOS. V. Diffusion in the Orbit of a High-perihelion Distant Solar System Object (2017) (33)
- Interpreting the densities of the Kuiper belt's dwarf planets (2016) (31)
- Col-OSSOS: The Colors of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (2015) (28)
- First Results from the Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) (2008) (27)
- A SEARCH FOR DISTANT SOLAR SYSTEM BODIES IN THE REGION OF SEDNA (2009) (27)
- TRIPPy: TRAILED IMAGE PHOTOMETRY IN PYTHON (2016) (27)
- PLANET HUNTERS: NEW KEPLER PLANET CANDIDATES FROM ANALYSIS OF QUARTER 2 (2012) (25)
- Planet Hunters TESS I: TOI 813, a subgiant hosting a transiting Saturn-sized planet on an 84-day orbit (2019) (25)
- Planet Four: Terrains – Discovery of araneiforms outside of the South Polar layered deposits (2017) (25)
- Optimization of the Observing Cadence for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: A Pioneering Process of Community-focused Experimental Design (2021) (24)
- PLANET HUNTERS. X. SEARCHING FOR NEARBY NEIGHBORS OF 75 PLANET AND ECLIPSING BINARY CANDIDATES FROM THE K2 KEPLER EXTENDED MISSION (2016) (22)
- THE LA SILLA–QUEST KUIPER BELT SURVEY (2012) (21)
- Col-OSSOS: Color and Inclination Are Correlated throughout the Kuiper Belt (2018) (20)
- THE SMALL NUMBERS OF LARGE KUIPER BELT OBJECTS (2013) (18)
- Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Solar System Science Roadmap (2018) (18)
- UPPER LIMITS ON THE NUMBER OF SMALL BODIES IN SEDNA-LIKE ORBITS BY THE TAOS PROJECT (2009) (18)
- OSSOS. IV. DISCOVERY OF A DWARF PLANET CANDIDATE IN THE 9:2 RESONANCE WITH NEPTUNE (2016) (16)
- OSSOS XX: The Meaning of Kuiper Belt Colors (2020) (16)
- The mass and density of the dwarf planet (225088) 2007 OR10 (2019) (15)
- The TAOS Project: Statistical Analysis of Multi-Telescope Time Series Data (2010) (15)
- THE PECULIAR PHOTOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF 2010 WG9: A SLOWLY ROTATING TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECT FROM THE OORT CLOUD (2013) (13)
- Potential Backup Targets for Comet Interceptor (2020) (12)
- Early Optical Brightening in GRB 071010B (2008) (12)
- Planet Hunters TESS II: findings from the first two years of TESS (2020) (12)
- The Scientific Impact of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) for Solar System Science (2020) (12)
- GRB 071112C: A CASE STUDY OF DIFFERENT MECHANISMS IN X-RAY AND OPTICAL TEMPORAL EVOLUTION (2012) (11)
- Planet Four: Probing springtime winds on Mars by mapping the southern polar CO2 jet deposits (2018) (11)
- Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov as seen by MUSE: C 2 , NH 2 and red CN detections (2020) (11)
- Establishing Earth’s Minimoon Population through Characterization of Asteroid 2020 CD3 (2020) (10)
- TAOS - The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (2006) (9)
- Search for small trans-Neptunian objects by the TAOS project (2006) (8)
- The TAOS Project: High-Speed Crowded Field Aperture Photometry (2009) (8)
- GNAO: an MCAO facility for Gemini North (2020) (8)
- Beyond Caustic Crossings: Properties of Binary Microlensing Light Curves (2007) (7)
- The TAOS Project Stellar Variability II. Detection of 15 Variable Stars (2010) (7)
- THE TAIWAN–AMERICAN OCCULTATION SURVEY PROJECT STELLAR VARIABILITY. I. DETECTION OF LOW-AMPLITUDE δ SCUTI STARS (2010) (7)
- Combining Saturnian Craters and Kuiper Belt Observations to Build an Outer Solar System Impactor Size-Frequency Distribution (2012) (6)
- A Software Roadmap for Solar System Science with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (2019) (6)
- K2 precision lightcurve: Twelve days in the Pluto-Charon system (2018) (5)
- Col-OSSOS: Colors of the Interstellar Planetesimal 1I/2017 U1 in Context with the Solar System (2017) (5)
- The La Silla-QUEST Southern Hemisphere Variability Survey (2012) (4)
- Probing the Time Domain with High Spatial Resolution (2019) (4)
- Col-OSSOS: Compositional Homogeneity of Three Kuiper Belt Binaries (2020) (4)
- A near-Sun Solar System Twilight Survey with LSST (2018) (4)
- A Big Sky Approach to Cadence Diplomacy (2018) (4)
- The TAOS Project Stellar Variability I. Detection of Low-Amplitude delta Scuti Stars (2009) (4)
- A Northern Ecliptic Survey for Solar System Science (2018) (4)
- OSSOS. XII. Variability Studies of 65 Trans-Neptunian Objects Using the Hyper Suprime-Cam (2018) (4)
- Mars' Seasonal Fans Measured by Citizen Scientists (2013) (3)
- The Mass, Density, and Figure of the Kuiper Belt Dwarf Planet Makemake (2018) (3)
- Year 1 of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST): Recommendations for Template Production to Enable Solar System Small Body Transient and Time Domain Science (2021) (3)
- Astro2020 Science White Paper: Triggered High-Priority Observations of Dynamic Solar System Phenomena (2019) (3)
- PLANET FOUR: TERRAINS – ARANEIFORM IN THE SOUTH POLAR REGION OF MARS (2017) (3)
- Analysis Pipeline and Results From the Planetfour Citizen Science Project K (2016) (3)
- Better support for collaborations preparing for large-scale projects: the case study of the LSST Science Collaborations Astro2020 APC White Paper. (2019) (3)
- Petabytes to science (2019) (3)
- Solar System: Stranded in no-man's-land (2014) (3)
- THE TAIWANESE–AMERICAN OCCULTATION SURVEY PROJECT STELLAR VARIABILITY. II. DETECTION OF 15 VARIABLE STARS (2010) (2)
- All planetesimals born near the Kuiper belt formed as binaries (2017) (2)
- Gemini North Adaptive Optics (GNAO): an MCAO system for Gemini North towards Conceptual Design (2019) (2)
- Emerging Capabilities for Detection and Characterization of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) (2019) (2)
- The LCO Outbursting Objects Key Project: Overview and Year 1 Status (2022) (2)
- New or Increased Cometary Activity in (2060) 95P/Chiron (2021) (2)
- A Close Binary Star Resolved from Occultation by 87 Sylvia (2009) (2)
- Properties of the Large KBOs: Results from the Palomar Distant Solar System Survey (2010) (2)
- TRIPPy: Python-based Trailed Source Photometry (2016) (2)
- TAOS early optical observations of V404 Cyg (2015) (2)
- Planet Hunters VI: The First Kepler Seven Planet Candidate System and 13 Other Planet Candidates from the Kepler Archival Data (2013) (1)
- Early optical shallow decay in GRB 071112C. (2008) (1)
- Combined Emerging Capabilities for Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) (2019) (1)
- Unproceedings of the Fourth .Astronomy Conference (.Astronomy 4), Heidelberg, Germany, July 9-11 2012 (2013) (1)
- Detection of Flare Stars in TAOS 2-year Data (2009) (1)
- Assessing the Main-Belt Comet Population with Comet Hunters (2017) (1)
- Col-OSSOS: The Distinct Color Distribution of Single and Binary Cold Classical KBOs (2021) (1)
- Status of the Taos Project and a Simulator for Tno Occultation (2006) (1)
- Col-OSSOS: Probing Ice Line/Color Transitions within the Kuiper Belt’s Progenitor Populations (2022) (1)
- Tuning the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Observing Strategy for Solar System Science (2023) (1)
- Global Polygonal Ridge Networks: Evidence for Pervasive Noachian Crustal Groundwater Circulation (2018) (1)
- ERRATUM: “PLANET HUNTERS. V. A CONFIRMED JUPITER-SIZE PLANET IN THE HABITABLE ZONE AND 42 PLANET CANDIDATES FROM THE KEPLER ARCHIVE DATA” (2013, ApJ, 776, 10) (2013) (1)
- A Deep Search for Binary TNOs. (2020) (1)
- Dynamic Seasons on Mars — Polar Images and Investigations (2020) (1)
- ERRATUM: “PLANET HUNTERS. VI. AN INDEPENDENT CHARACTERIZATION OF KOI-351 AND SEVERAL LONG PERIOD PLANET CANDIDATES FROM THE KEPLER ARCHIVAL DATA” (2014, AJ, 148, 28) (2015) (1)
- Planet Four: Probing Seasonal Winds on Mars by Mapping the Southern Polar CO2 Jet Deposits (2018) (1)
- THE TAIWANESE–AMERICAN OCCULTATION SURVEY PROJECT STELLAR VARIABILITY. III. DETECTION OF 58 NEW VARIABLE STARS (2010) (1)
- The mass and density of the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 (2018) (1)
- Mapping Mars' Southern Springtime Winds and Seasonal Polar Fans with Planet Four (2018) (1)
- Irregular polygonal ridge networks in ancient Noachian terrain on Mars (2021) (1)
- A Data Reduction Pipeline for Gemini-North’s Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (2019) (1)
- Morphometric trends and implications for the formation of araneiform clusters (2023) (1)
- The Effects of Filter Choice on Outer Solar System Science with LSST (2018) (1)
- Planet Hunters: Kepler by Eye (2014) (1)
- Evaluating the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Observing Strategy — With An Eye On Small Body Science (2020) (1)
- Opportunities for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope to Find New L5 Trojan and Hilda Lucy Encounter Targets (2018) (1)
- Enabling deep all-sky searches of outer solar system objects (2019) (1)
- Planet Four: Derived South Polar Martian Winds Interpreted Using Mesoscale Modeling (2021) (0)
- Characterisation of 2020 CD3, Earth’s second minimoon (2020) (0)
- First results of the PlanetFour Citizen Science project (2015) (0)
- Col-OSSOS: Probing Ice Line/Colour Transitions within the Kuiper Belt's Progenitor Populations (2020) (0)
- Col-OSSOS: The Two Types of Kuiper Belt Surfaces (2022) (0)
- Natural Satellite Observations [675 Palomar Mountain] (2009) (0)
- Natural Satellite Observations [809 European Southern Observatory, La Silla] (2010) (0)
- Automated Photometry and KBO Occultation Event Detection in the TAOS Project (2005) (0)
- Census of Kuiper-Belt Objects by Stellar Occultation - The Taiwan-America Occultation Survey (TAOS) (2005) (0)
- Col-OSSOS: Investigating Outlying Surfaces within the Kuiper Belt's Neutral Coloured Objects (2021) (0)
- Planet Four Pursuit of Studying Seasonal Activity and Spring Atmosphere with Citizen Science (2019) (0)
- Planet Four: Terrains - Pointing the Highest Resolution Camera Ever Sent to Mars with the Help of 10,000 Earthlings (2016) (0)
- Follow-up of the activity and composition of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov with MUSE (2020) (0)
- Phase Curves of Kuiper Belt Objects, Centaurs, and Jupiter-family Comets from the ATLAS Survey (2023) (0)
- Characterizing the Discovery of a New Trans-Neptunian Object Binary in a Trailed Point-spread Function Search (2021) (0)
- Kepler K2 Precision Lightcurve Observations of Pluto: Preliminary Results (2016) (0)
- Searching the Southern Skies with the La Silla-QUEST KBO Survey: Probing the Inventory of Large and High Inclination Kuiper belt (2012) (0)
- The Colour Distribution Of The Low Inclination Trans-Neptunian Objects (2020) (0)
- First Science Results From Planethunters.org: A Citizen Science Analysis Of Kepler Data. (2012) (0)
- GRB 071010B : early optical brightening detected by TAOS. (2008) (0)
- Origins Survey of Primordial Relics: ELTs Reveal Compositional Variation across the Solar System (2019) (0)
- Planet Four Terrains: A Citizen Science Project to Study the South Polar Region of Mars (2016) (0)
- Hyper Suprime-Cam Lightcurve Studies of Trans-Neptunian Objects from the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (2017) (0)
- Seven New Inner Classical Belt Objects (2018) (0)
- Col-OSSOS: The Distribution of Surface Classes in Neptune's Resonances (2022) (0)
- Planet four: A neural network’s search for polar spring-time fans on Mars (2022) (0)
- Highlights from Citizen Science in Astronomy and Planetary Science (2016) (0)
- Four New Neptunian Trojans (2018) (0)
- Geophysical CO2 Gas Jet Modeling: Initial Set-Up (2019) (0)
- The TAOS Robotic Observatory (2011) (0)
- Colours of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey: An Update (2018) (0)
- Early Observations in the Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (2005) (0)
- NEAR-SURFACE WINDS AND SEASONAL SURFACE PHENOMENA ANALYZED BY PLANET FOUR PROJECT (2019) (0)
- A Potential New Surface Type in the Kuiper Belt (2019) (0)
- Planet Hunters 2 in the K2 Era (2015) (0)
- The U . S . Extremely Large Telescope Program Key Science Program Description Document (2018) (0)
- The Expanding Universe of Astronomy on Tap (2017) (0)
- Deep Drilling Fields for Solar System Science (2018) (0)
- Adaptive Optics Imaging of Transiting Planet Candidate Host Stars (2013) (0)
- Post-processing layer of the survey simulator for LSST Solar System observations (2021) (0)
- Beyond Sedna: Probing the Distant Solar System (2011) (0)
- Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Solar System Science Collaboration (SSSC) Cadence Note (0)
- Surface Color Frequencies and Ratios Within the Kuiper Belt (2016) (0)
- MARS SPRING SEASONAL ICE CLEANING AS DETECTED BY PLANET FOUR PROJECT (2019) (0)
- Constraints on the Distant Population in the Region of Sedna (2008) (0)
- Evidence for Expulsion of the Star Formation Gas Reservoir by the AGN in Local Blue Ellipticals (2016) (0)
- A new high-perihelion a ~ 700 AU object in the distant Solar System (2016) (0)
- Col-OSSOS: Evidence for a compositional gradient inherited from the protoplanetary disk? (2022) (0)
- Col-OSSOS: The Compositional Structure of the Protoplanetesimal Disk (2018) (0)
- Citizen Science in Astronomy (2016) (0)
- Planet Hunters: A Status Report (2012) (0)
- Variability and Lightcurves Studies in the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (2015) (0)
- X . SEARCHING FOR NEARBY NEIGHBORS OF 75 PLANET AND ECLIPSING BINARY CANDIDATES FROM THE K 2 KEPLER EXTENDED MISSION (2018) (0)
- Near-Simultaneous Optical + NIR Photometry of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov (2020) (0)
- Expanding the Universe of "Astronomy on Tap" Public Outreach Events (2016) (0)
- Photometric Observations Of 2010 WG9 - A High-inclination Tno From The Oort Cloud (2012) (0)
- Do less-red KBOs share origins with the C-type asteroids? (2020) (0)
- Col-OSSOS: A new ugrJ taxonomy for trans-Neptunian objects (2016) (0)
- Dynamical Constraints on the Existence of a 9th Planet Residing in the Inner Oort Cloud (2015) (0)
- Exploring the composition of icy bodies at the fringes of the solar system with next generation space telescopes Thematic Areas : ☒ Planetary Systems (2019) (0)
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: Transits of PH3 b, c, and d through January, 2019 (Schmitt+, 2014) (2017) (0)
- The Deep Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP): A new NOAO survey of the faint outer Solar System (2019) (0)
- A Need for Dedicated Outreach Expertise and Online Programming: Astro2020 Science White Paper (2019) (0)
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