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astro-ph.GA2017★ 4 cited
SpArcFiRe: morphological selection effects due to reduced visibility of tightly winding arms in distant spiral galaxies
Tianrui, Peng, John Edward English +3
The Galaxy Zoo has provided morphological data on many galaxies. Several biases have been identified in the Galaxy Zoo data. Here we report on a newly discovered selection effect:…
astro-ph.GA2016★ 41 cited
On the nature and correction of the spurious S-wise spiral galaxy winding bias in Galaxy Zoo 1
Wayne Hayes, Darren Davis, Pedro Silva
The Galaxy Zoo 1 catalog displays a bias towards the S-wise winding direction in spiral galaxies which has yet to be explained. The lack of an explanation confounds our attempts to…
astro-ph.GA2014★ 62 cited
Scalable Automated Detection of Spiral Galaxy Arm Segments
Darren R. Davis, Wayne B. Hayes
Given an approximately centered image of a spiral galaxy, we describe an entirely automated method that finds, centers, and sizes the galaxy and then automatically extracts structu…