Twelve Years of Galaxy Zoo
Karen L. Masters (Haverford College), the Galaxy Zoo Team
(Submitted on 17 Oct 2019)
The Galaxy Zoo (GZ) project has provided quantitative visual morphologies for over a million galaxies, and has been part of a reinvigoration of interest in the morphologies of galaxies and what they reveal about galaxy evolution. Morphological information collected by GZ has shown itself to be a powerful tool for studying galaxy evolution, and GZ continues to collect classifications – currently serving imaging from DECaLS in its main site, and running a variety of related projects hosted by the Zooniverse; the citizen science platform which came out of the early success of GZ. I highlight some of the results from the last twelve years, with a particular emphasis on linking morphology and dynamics, look forward to future projects in the GZ family, and provide a quick start guide for how you can easily make use of citizen science techniques to analysis your own large and complex data sets.
Comments: Invited Review Talk at the IAU Symposium No. 353: “Galactic Dynamics in the Era of Large Surveys”. 8 pages
Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
Cite as: arXiv:1910.08177 [astro-ph.GA] (or arXiv:1910.08177v1 [astro-ph.GA] for this version)
Submission history
From: Karen Masters
[v1] Thu, 17 Oct 2019 21:39:00 UTC (575 KB)
