A New Black Hole Hunters Workflow
This summer we launched a new workflow on Black Hole Hunters. We “soft launched” it without an announcement to give us time test it thoroughly, and now that it’s been live for a while we're pretty excited to tell you about it.
It’s only been a few months since we last launched a new workflow, so you might be wondering why we’re launching yet another one. Back in April, when we launched the previous workflow, we were intending to launch a second workflow that would run alongside the one we launched then. Well, thanks to our volunteers' work on the previous workflow, we’ve been able to further tweak and refine our filtering algorithms, and instead of launching an additional workflow we’ve been able to combine everything into one single workflow which is now live.
This new workflow contains an even more refined set of black hole candidates, and (this is the exciting part!) it also lets our volunteers take part in our candidate vetting process for the first time. Now, rather than just helping us identify candidates, they can help us figure out which ones might really be black holes and which are caused by other things, by looking at animations of the image data from the TESS cameras.