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 $z\sim 1$. 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 5 epochs. The median redshift of the combined samples is $z=0.9\pm 0.6$, with a tail extending out to $z\sim 4$. 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 $z\sim 1$.

32 pages, 14 figures. Accepted to MNRAS. Full data tables are available electronically from journal or https://data.galaxyzoo.org

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