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

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 rele...

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Veröffentlicht in:Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2017-02, Vol.464 (4), p.4176-4176
Hauptverfasser: Willett, Kyle W, Galloway, Melanie A, Bamford, Steven P, Lintott, Chris J, Masters, Karen L, Scarlata, Claudia, Simmons, B D, Beck, Melanie, Cardamone, Carolin N, Cheung, Edmond, Edmondson, Edward M, tson, Lucy F, Griffith, Roger L, Haeu beta ler, Boris, Han, Anna, Hart, Ross, Melvin, Thomas, Parrish, Michael, Schawinski, Kevin, Smethurst, R J, Smith, Arfon M
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Zusammenfassung: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 ~ 1. The bulk of the sample is selected to have mI814W < 23.5, but goes as faint as mI814W < 26.8 for deep images combined over five epochs. The median redshift of the combined samples is = 0.9 plus or minus 0.6, with a tail extending out to z ... 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 ~ 1. (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae/symbols omitted.)
ISSN:0035-8711
1365-2966
DOI:10.1093/mnras/stw2568