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most citedGalaxy Zoo : Morphologies derived from visual inspection of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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Galaxy Zoo: Motivations of Citizen Scientists

M. Jordan Raddick, Georgia Bracey, Pamela L. Gay +6

Citizen science, in which volunteers work with professional scientists to conduct research, is expanding due to large online datasets. To plan projects, it is important to understa…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 69 cited

Galaxy Zoo: building the low-mass end of the red sequence with local post-starburst galaxies

O. Ivy Wong, K. Schawinski, S. Kaviraj +12

We present a study of local post-starburst galaxies (PSGs) using the photometric and spectroscopic observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the results from the Ga…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 749 cited

Galaxy Zoo 1 : Data Release of Morphological Classifications for nearly 900,000 galaxies

Chris Lintott, Kevin Schawinski, Steven Bamford +11

Morphology is a powerful indicator of a galaxy's dynamical and merger history. It is strongly correlated with many physical parameters, including mass, star formation history and t…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 148 cited

Galaxy Zoo: Dust in Spirals

Karen L. Masters, Robert C. Nichol, Steven Bamford +12

We investigate the effect of dust on spiral galaxies by measuring the inclination-dependence of optical colours for 24,276 well-resolved SDSS galaxies visually classified in Galaxy…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 195 cited

Galaxy Zoo: The fundamentally different co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their early- and late-type host galaxies

Kevin Schawinski, C. Megan Urry, Shanil Virani +18

We use data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and visual classifications of morphology from the Galaxy Zoo project to study black hole growth in the nearby Universe (z < 0.05) and…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 256 cited

Galaxy Zoo: Passive Red Spirals

Karen L. Masters, Moein Mosleh, A. Kathy Romer +14

We study the spectroscopic properties and environments of red spiral galaxies found by the Galaxy Zoo project. By carefully selecting face-on, disk dominated spirals we construct a…