3 papers
astro-ph.GA2026
Linking enhanced star formation and quenching to faint tidal features in galaxies
Alexander J. Gordon, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Robert G. Mann +1
Galaxy mergers and interactions have long been suggested as a significant driver of galaxy evolution. However, the exact extent to which mergers enhance star formation and AGN acti…
astro-ph.IM2025
Galaxy Zoo Evo: 1 million human-annotated images of galaxies
Mike Walmsley, Steven Bamford, Hugh Dickinson +17
We introduce Galaxy Zoo Evo, a labeled dataset for building and evaluating foundation models on images of galaxies. GZ Evo includes 104M crowdsourced labels for 823k images from fo…
astro-ph.GA2024
Uncovering Tidal Treasures: Automated Classification of Faint Tidal Features in DECaLS Data
Alexander J. Gordon, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Robert G. Mann
Tidal features are a key observable prediction of the hierarchical model of galaxy formation and contain a wealth of information about the properties and history of a galaxy. Moder…