GOTO team members Tom Killestein and Lisa Kelsey have done an incredible job developing and managing our "flagship" outreach program, Kilonova Seekers, launched with great fanfare back in 2023. The project provides candidate transients detected by GOTO and asks users to play "spot the difference" in distingushing genuine transients (or source variability) from various kinds of artifacts that crop up in our differencing procedure. Tom & Lisa wrote up their work for MNRAS and the paper has now been published. Accompanying the paper were press releases from Portsmouth, Turku, Leicester and even Monash, the latter also acknowledging the contribution of Monash PhD student Sergey Belkin. Although it was not possible to include all our contributing volunteer scientists in the author list, they are acknowledged in the paper's appendix A; all 4.5 pages of them! Keep up the great work

Labels: 2024, outreach