UMD Student Discovers New Double Stars

Raquel Smith, one of Elizabeth Warner's last students in the College Park Scholars Science, Discovery and the Universe program, observed several asteroid occultations as part of her sophomore capstone project during Spring 2023 at the UMD Observatory. Two of the observations resulted in the discovery of double stars. Elizabeth and Raquel, along with students from UVA, wrote up and published the results in the Journal of Double Star Observations.