4.7 Article

Galaxy Zoo: morphological classifications for 120 000 galaxies in HST legacy imaging

Journal

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 464, Issue 4, Pages 4176-4203

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2568

Keywords

methods: data analysis; catalogues; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: structure

Funding

  1. US National Science Foundation [AST1413610]
  2. National Aeronautics and Space Administration [PF5-160143, NAS8-03060]
  3. Swiss National Science Foundation [PP00P2_138979/1]
  4. Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J500665/1]
  5. STFC grant [ST/K502236/1]
  6. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  7. Google Global Impact Award
  8. NASA [NAS 5-26555]
  9. National Science Foundation
  10. US Department of Energy
  11. Japanese Monbukagakusho
  12. Max Planck Society
  13. Higher Education Funding Council for England
  14. American Museum of Natural History
  15. Astrophysical Institute Potsdam
  16. University of Basel
  17. University of Cambridge
  18. Case Western Reserve University
  19. University of Chicago
  20. Drexel University
  21. Fermilab
  22. Institute for Advanced Study
  23. Japan Participation Group
  24. Johns Hopkins University
  25. Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics
  26. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
  27. Korean Scientist Group
  28. Chinese Academy of Sciences (LAMOST)
  29. Los Alamos National Laboratory
  30. Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA)
  31. Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA)
  32. New Mexico State University
  33. Ohio State University
  34. University of Pittsburgh
  35. University of Portsmouth
  36. Princeton University
  37. United States Naval Observatory
  38. University of Washington
  39. NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope [GO-10134, GO-09822, GO-09425.01, GO-09583.01, GO- 9500]
  40. AHRC [AH/L007010/1] Funding Source: UKRI
  41. STFC [ST/L000695/1, ST/N003179/1, ST/J500665/1, ST/K502236/1] Funding Source: UKRI
  42. Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/K502236/1, ST/J500665/1] Funding Source: researchfish
  43. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
  44. Division Of Astronomical Sciences [1413610] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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We present the data release paper for the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble (GZH) project. This is the third phase in a large effort to measure reliable, detailed morphologies of galaxies by using crowdsourced visual classifications of colour-composite images. Images in GZH were selected from various publicly released Hubble Space Telescope legacy programmes conducted with the Advanced Camera for Surveys, with filters that probe the rest-frame optical emission from galaxies out to z similar to 1. The bulk of the sample is selected to have m(I814W) < 23.5, but goes as faint as m(I814W) < 26.8 for deep images combined over five epochs. The median redshift of the combined samples is < z > = 0.9 +/- 0.6, with a tail extending out to z similar or equal to 4. The GZH morphological data include measurements of both bulge-and disc-dominated galaxies, details on spiral disc structure that relate to the Hubble type, bar identification, and numerous measurements of clump identification and geometry. This paper also describes a new method for calibrating morphologies for galaxies of different luminosities and at different redshifts by using artificially redshifted galaxy images as a baseline. The GZH catalogue contains both raw and calibrated morphological vote fractions for 119 849 galaxies, providing the largest data set to date suitable for large-scale studies of galaxy evolution out to z similar to 1.

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