Galaxy Zoo: Morphological Classifications for 120,000 Galaxies in HST Legacy Imaging
Abstract
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 programs conducted with the Advanced Camera for Surveys, with filters that probe the rest-frame optical emission from galaxies out to . The bulk of the sample is selected to have ,but goes as faint as for deep images combined over 5 epochs. The median redshift of the combined samples is , with a tail extending out to . The GZH morphological data include measurements of both bulge- and disk-dominated galaxies, details on spiral disk 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 dataset to date suitable for large-scale studies of galaxy evolution out to .
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@article{arxiv.1610.03068,
title = {Galaxy Zoo: Morphological Classifications for 120,000 Galaxies in HST Legacy Imaging},
author = {Kyle W. Willett and Melanie A. Galloway and Steven P. Bamford and Chris J. Lintott and Karen L. Masters and Claudia Scarlata and B. D. Simmons and Melanie Beck and Carolin N. Cardamone and Edmond Cheung and Edward M. Edmondson and Lucy F. Fortson and Roger L. Griffith and Boris Haeussler and Anna Han and Ross Hart and Thomas Melvin and Michael Parrish and Kevin Schawinski and R. J. Smethurst and Arfon M. Smith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.03068},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
32 pages, 14 figures. Accepted to MNRAS. Full data tables are available electronically from journal or https://data.galaxyzoo.org