Twelve years of Galaxy Zoo
Abstract
The Galaxy Zoo 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.
- Publication:
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Galactic Dynamics in the Era of Large Surveys
- Pub Date:
- 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921319008615
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1910.08177
- Bibcode:
- 2020IAUS..353..205M
- Keywords:
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- galaxies:fundamental parameters;
- galaxies:kinematics and dynamics;
- galaxies: evolution;
- galaxies:statistics;
- catalogs;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- Invited Review Talk at the IAU Symposium No. 353: "Galactic Dynamics in the Era of Large Surveys". 8 pages