- Galaxy Zoo is a
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The original Galaxy Zoo project ran from July 2007 until February 2009, before being replaced by Galaxy Zoo 2 and then, in turn by Galaxy Zoo: Hubble. Volunteers were asked to classify SDSS galaxies as belonging to one of six categories - elliptical, clockwise spiral, anticlockwise spiral, edge-on galaxies, 'star/don't know' or merger.
This webpage allows anyone to download the resulting classifications of nearly 900,000 galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
The project is described in Lintott et al., 2008, MNRAS, 389, 1179 and the data release is described in Lintott et al. 2010. Anyone making use of the data should cite at least one of these papers in any resulting publications.
Table 2 gives classifications of galaxies which have spectra included in SDSS Data Release 7. The fraction of the vote in each of the six categories is given, along with debiased votes in elliptical and spiral categories and flags identifying systems as classified as spiral, elliptical or uncertain.
Table 3 gives classifications of galaxies included in the Galaxy Zoo sample which did not have spectra available in SDSS Data Release 7. It is not possible to estimate the bias in the sample, and so only the fraction of the vote in each of the six categories is given.
Table 4 gives a series of measures of classification confidence.
Tables 5 and 6 give the results from the bias study that introduced mirrored (table 5) and monochrome (table 6) images.
Table 7 gives the fraction of votes in each of the six categories, combining results from the main and bias studies.
These tables are also accessible via CASjobs. They can be queried via:
public.galaxyzoo.GalaxyZoo1_DR_table2
public.galaxyzoo.GalaxyZoo1_DR_table3
public.galaxyzoo.GalaxyZoo1_DR_table4
public.galaxyzoo.GalaxyZoo1_DR_table5
public.galaxyzoo.GalaxyZoo1_DR_table6
public.galaxyzoo.GalaxyZoo1_DR_table7
This sample is presented in the Galaxy Zoo 1 paper on AGN host galaxies (Schawinski et al., 2010, ApJ, 711, 284). It is a volume-limited sample of galaxies (0.02 < z < 0.05, M_z < -19.5 AB) with emission line classifications, stellar masses, velocity dispersions and GZ1 morphological classifications. When using this sample, please cite Schawinski et al. 2010 and Lintott et al. 2008, 2011.
Download here: http://galaxy-zoo-1.s3.amazonaws.com/schawinski_GZ_2010_catalogue.fits.gz
Column definitions are as follows:
OBJID - SDSS object ID
RA, DEC - RA and Dec in J2000
REDSHIFT - SDSS spectroscopic redshift
GZ1_MORPHOLOGY - Galaxy Zoo 1 morphology according to the Land et al. (2008) "clean" criterion. GZ_morphology is an integer where 1-early type, 4-late type, 0-indeterminate, 3-merger
BPT_CLASS - 0-no emission lines, 1-SF, 2-Composite, 3-Seyfert and 4-LINER (see Schawinski et al. 2010 for details)
U,G,R,I,Z -SDSS modelMag extinction corrected but not k-corrected
SIGMA, SIGMA_ERR - Stellar velocity dispersion measured using GANDALF
LOG_MSTELLAR - log of stellar mass
L_O3 - Extinction-corrected [OIII] luminosity