Receive the investigation
The teacher assigns WASP-12 b to individuals or teams. Students begin with a focused question: does this observation recover the known transit?
How ExoInquiry works
A complete research arc, without a specialist-software detour.
ExoInquiry turns a telescope observation into a sequence of evidence decisions. TransitSift performs fragile preparation while keeping the consequential scientific choices visible.
ASSIGNMENT / READY
Inspect the frames
Students compare exposures, review quality warnings, and decide which measurements can be trusted. TransitSift recommendations remain visible and reversible.
Produce the light curve
The accepted measurements become relative brightness over time. Rejected points remain traceable, so every change has a visible reason.
Measure and interpret
Students estimate depth and timing, examine uncertainty, and ask whether the dip is statistically convincing.
Submit the report
Each student or team explains its frame decisions, measurement, uncertainty, and final claim in a short scientific report.
Teacher-controlled depth
One investigation. Two levels of control.
Guided mode protects normal class time. Advanced mode exposes additional analysis choices only as those workflows are validated.
MODE / GUIDED · DEFAULT
Focus on evidence and reasoning.
TransitSift prepares calibration, tracking, photometry, quality information, and an initial fit. Students review, measure, interpret, and defend.
- Normal class-period pacing
- Prepared WASP-12 b dataset
- Visible and reversible decisions
- Teacher rubric and report review
MODE / ADVANCED · TEACHER OPTION
Expose more of the analysis.
Advanced classrooms receive additional controls only after each pathway has passed scientific and classroom validation.
- Quality thresholds
- Comparison-star choices
- Detrending and fit controls
- Teacher-supplied data in defined stages
Dependability first
Prepared data now. Broader observations in stages.
The prepared WASP-12 b investigation is the dependable classroom default. Teacher-supplied observations will move from concierge preparation to standardized uploads, then to broader support after instrument differences are validated.
- 01Prepared investigationLaunch path
- 02Concierge ingestionTeacher data reviewed by Stellimetry
- 03Standardized uploadDefined FITS packages
- 04General uploadAfter broader validation
See the reasoning move
Make one evidence decision yourself.
The free demonstration shows how frame-quality choices change the measurement and the claim.