Morphological types from Galaxy Zoo 2 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Willett K.W.
  2. Lintott C.J.
  3. Bamford S.P.
  4. Masters K.L.
  5. Simmons B.D.,Casteels K.R.V.
  6. Edmondson E.M.
  7. Fortson L.F.
  8. Kaviraj S.
  9. Keel W.C.,Melvin T.
  10. Nichol R.C.
  11. Raddick M.J.
  12. Schawinski K.
  13. Simpson R.J.,Skibba R.A.
  14. Smith A.M.
  15. Thomas D.
  16. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the data release for Galaxy Zoo 2 (GZ2), a citizen science project with more than 16 million morphological classifications of 304122 galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Morphology is a powerful probe for quantifying a galaxy's dynamical history; however, automatic classifications of morphology (either by computer analysis of images or by using other physical parameters as proxies) still have drawbacks when compared to visual inspection. The large number of images available in current surveys makes visual inspection of each galaxy impractical for individual astronomers. GZ2 uses classifications from volunteer citizen scientists to measure morphologies for all galaxies in the DR7 Legacy survey with m_r_>17, in addition to deeper images from SDSS Stripe 82. While the original GZ2 project identified galaxies as early-types, late-types or mergers, GZ2 measures finer morphological features. These include bars, bulges and the shapes of edge-on discs, as well as quantifying the relative strengths of galactic bulges and spiral arms. This paper presents the full public data release for the project, including measures of accuracy and bias. The majority (>90 per cent) of GZ2 classifications agree with those made by professional astronomers, especially for morphological T-types, strong bars and arm curvature. Both the raw and reduced data products can be obtained in electronic format at http://data.galaxyzoo.org .

Keywords
  1. surveys
  2. galaxies
  3. photometry
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. sloan-photometry
  6. galaxy-classification-systems
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2013MNRAS.435.2835W
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/435/2835
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/435/2835
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74352835

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History

2013-10-18T09:17:42Z
Resource record created
2013-10-18T09:17:42Z
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2024-08-06T20:17:06Z
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