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| Name: Ananda Hota Affiliation: UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai Conference ID: ASI2018_818 Title : Five year report on discoveries using GMRT and RAD@home a nation-wide inter-university collaboratory of 100+ citizen-scientists Authors and Co-Authors : Ananda Hota(1,2), Chiranjib Konar(2, 3), Sravani Vaddi(2,4), Pratik dabhade(2,5,6), C S. Stalin(7), Sumanta Ku Sahoo(2), Pradeepta Mohanty (2), Megha Rajoria (2), Sagar Sethi(2), Arpita Misra(2), Alakananda Patra(2), Charitarth Vyas(2), Akanksha Tiwary(2), Viswajith Govinda Rajan(2), Lavanya Nemani(2), Mitali Damle(2), Shilpa Dubal(2), Karuna Gamre(2), Anjali Amesh(2), Avinash Kumar(2), Gitika Mall(2) 1. UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai-98, India 2. RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory, India 3. Amity University, Noida, India 4. National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Pune, India 5. Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune, India 6. Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands 7. Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India Abstract Type : Poster Abstract Category : Extragalactic astronomy Abstract : Objects discovered over last 5 years by the citizen-scientists have been accumulated and sorted in to 5 different manuscripts with different scientific themes. They have been primarily discovered from the TGSS (DR-5/ADR-1) data and followed up with the GMRT/uGMRT through GTAC-approved four proposals acronymed GOOD-RAC. The discoverers and research assistants who helped the training process for creating citizen scientists were included as Co-I in GOOD-RAC proposals, which has gone through standard review process along with other international proposals. These one-week long training camps are called "RAD@home Discovery Camps" and have been hosted by Institute of Physics, Nehru Planetarium (Delhi), Vigyan Prasar, Harischandra Research Institute and Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences of the University of Mumbai and Department of Atomic Energy of the Govt of India. The next Camp has been planned in ICTS-TIFR (Bangalore). These Camps have created a Nation-wide Inter-University network of over 100 trained-citizen-scientists or what we call e-astronomers. Pre-discovery documentations created by e-astronomers are carried forward by the collaboratory with professionals comprising both Indian and foreign scientists. The original model of this modified citizen-science research initiative has already been published in the special issue of the JApA titled "Science with the SKA: an Indian perspective" with the article titled "Tracking galaxy evolution through low frequency radio continuum observations using SKA and Citizen-science Research using Multi-wavelength data ". We would like to present to the Indian astronomy community brief results from the series of papers being drafted, pre-fixed with "Reporting Discoveries from GMRT by RAD@home citizen-scientists:" and tentatively titled I: New Speca-like large spiral-host radio galaxies. II: Three intriguing cases of external jet-galaxy interaction as laboratory for AGN feedback. III: New episodic radio galaxies with both FR I and FR II structures. IV: Bent lobe radio galaxies as tracers of cosmological accretion on to clusters of galaxies through filaments. V: New candidate radio Phoenix or radio sources revived by cosmological accretion on to clusters of galaxies. We welcome larger public participation as our approach is Any BSc/BE Can Do research ( #ABCDresearch ) using GMRT sitting @home from anywhere in India by joining RAD@home ( #RADatHomeIndia ) for free at https://www.facebook.com/groups/RADathome/ . We request support from every planetarium, museums and science centres, Govt and Pvt organisations to host our Discovery Camps, support e-astronomers and help spread citizen-science research in India. |