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    • Galaxy zoo 2 : Detailed morphological classifications for 304,122 galaxies from the sloan digital sky survey 

      Willett, K.W.; Lintott, C.J.; Bamford, S.P.; Masters, K.L.; Simmons, B.D.; Casteels, K.R.V.; Edmondson, E.M.; Fortson, L.F.; Kaviraj, S.; Keel, W.C.; Melvin, T.; Nichol, R.C.; Jordan Raddick, M.; Schawinski, K.; Simpson, R.J.; Skibba, R.A.; Smith, A.M.; Thomas, D. (2013-11-01)
      We present the data release for Galaxy Zoo 2 (GZ2), a citizen science project with more than 16 million morphological classifications of 304,122 galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).Morphology is a ...

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

      Wong, O.I.; Schawinski, K.; Kaviraj, S.; Lintott, C.; Darg, D.; Masters, K.L.; Nichol, R.C.; Thomas, D.; Keel, W.C.; Bamford, S.P.; Andreescu, D.; Murray, P.; Raddick, M.J.; Szalay, A.; Vandenberg, J. (2012-02-01)
      We present a study of local post-starburst galaxies (PSGs) using the photometric and spectroscopic observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the results from the Galaxy Zoo project. We find that the majority of ...

    • Galaxy Zoo : Dust and molecular gas in early-type galaxies with prominent dust lanes 

      Kaviraj, S.; Ting, Y. S.; Bureau, M.; Shabala, S.S.; Crockett, R.M.; Silk, J.; Lintott, C.; Smith, A.; Keel, W.C.; Masters, K.L.; Schawinski, K.; Bamford, S.P. (2012-06-01)
      We explore the properties of dust and associated molecular gas in 352 nearby (0.01 <z <0.07) early-type galaxies (ETGs) with prominent dust lanes, drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Two-thirds of these 'dusty ...

    • Galaxy Zoo : Dust lane early-type galaxies are tracers of recent, gas-rich minor mergers 

      Shabala, S.S.; Ting, Y. S.; Kaviraj, S.; Lintott, C.; Crockett, R.M.; Silk, J.; Sarzi, M.; Schawinski, K.; Bamford, S.P.; Edmondson, E. (2012-06-01)
      We present the second of two papers concerning the origin and evolution of local early-type galaxies exhibiting dust features. We use optical and radio data to examine the nature of active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity ...

    • Galaxy Zoo : the dependence of the star formation-stellar mass relation on spiral disk morphology 

      Willett, Kyle W.; Schawinski, Kevin; Simmons, Brooke D.; Masters, Karen L.; Skibba, Ramin A.; Kaviraj, Sugata; Melvin, Thomas; Wong, O. Ivy; Nichol, Robert C.; Cheung, Edmond; Lintott, Chris J.; Fortson, Lucy (2015-03-19)
      We measure the stellar mass-star formation rate relation in star-forming disk galaxies at z1. Of the galaxies lying significantly above the M-SFR relation in the local Universe, more than 50% are mergers. We interpret this ...

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

      Schawinski, K.; Urry, C.M.; Virani, S.; Coppi, P.; Cardamone, C.N.; Bamford, S.P.; Treister, E.; Lintott, C.J.; Kaviraj, S.; Sarzi, M.; Keel, W.C.; Masters, K.L.; Nichol, R.C.; Thomas, D.; Ross, N.P.; Andreescu, D.; Murray, P.; Raddick, M.J.; Szalay, A.S.; Vandenberg, J.; Slosar, A. (2010-01-01)
      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 to break down the active galactic nucleus ...

    • Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: discovery of a class of compact extremely star-forming galaxies 

      Cardamone, C.; Schawinski, K.; Sarzi, M.; Bamford, S.; Bennert, N.; Urry, C.M.; Lintott, C.; Keel, W.; Parejko, J.; Nichol, R.C.; Thomas, D.; Andreescu, D.; Murray, P.; Raddick, M.J.; Slosar, A.; Szalay, A.; Vandenberg, J. (2009)
      We investigate a class of rapidly growing emission line galaxies, known as 'Green Peas', first noted by volunteers in the Galaxy Zoo project because of their peculiar bright green colour and small size, unresolved in Sloan ...

    • Galaxy Zoo: a sample of blue early-type galaxies at low redshift 

      Schawinski, K.; Lintott, C.; Kaviraj, S.; Khochfar, S.; Land, K.; Thomas, D.; Bamford, S. P.; Nichol, R.C.; Sarzi, M.; Andreescu, D.; Murray, P.; Raddick, M.J.; Szalay, A.; Vandenberg, J.; Slosar, A.; Yi, S.K. (2009)
      We report the discovery of a population of nearby, blue early-type galaxies with high star formation rates (0.5 < SFR < 50 M⊙ yr−1) . They are identified by their visual morphology as provided by Galaxy Zoo for Sloan Digital ...

    • Galaxy Zoo: Bulgeless galaxies with growing black holes 

      Simmons, B.; Lintott, C.; Kaviraj, S.; Schawinski, K.; Han, A.; Urry, C.M.; Moran, E.C.; Masters, K.L.; Nichol, R.C.; Willett, K.W.; Bamford, S.P. (2013-03)
      The growth of supermassive black holes appears to be driven by galaxy mergers, violent merger-free processes and/or 'secular' processes. In order to quantify the effects of secular evolution on black hole growth, we study ...

    • Galaxy Zoo: CANDELS barred discs and bar fractions 

      Simmons, Brooke D.; Melvin, Thomas; Lintott, Chris J.; Masters, Karen L.; Willett, Kyle W.; Keel, William C.; Smethurst, R. J.; Cheung, Edmond; Nichol, Robert C.; Schawinski, Kevin; Rutkowski, Michael; Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.; Bell, Eric F.; Casteels, Kevin R. V.; Conselice, Christopher J.; Almaini, Omar; Ferguson, Henry C.; Fortson, Lucy; Hartley, William; Kocevski, Dale; Koekemoer, Anton M.; McIntosh, Daniel H.; Mortlock, Alice; Newman, Jeffrey A.; Ownsworth, Jamie; Bamford, Steven P.; Dahlen, Tomas; Faber, Sandra M.; Finkelstein, Steven L.; Fontana, Adriano; Galametz, Audrey; Grogin, N. A.; Grützbauch, Ruth; Guo, Yicheng; Häußler, Boris; Jek, Kian J.; Kaviraj, Sugata; Lucas, Ray A.; Peth, Michael; Salvato, Mara; Wiklind, Tommy; Wuyts, Stijn (2014-12-21)
      The formation of bars in disc galaxies is a tracer of the dynamical maturity of the population. Previous studies have found that the incidence of bars in discs decreases from the local Universe to z ~ 1, and by z > 1 ...

    • Galaxy Zoo: evidence for Diverse Star Formation Histories through the Green Valley 

      Smethurst, R. J.; Lintott, C. J.; Simmons, B. D.; Schawinski, K.; Marshall, P. J.; Bamford, S.; Fortson, L.; Kaviraj, S.; Masters, K. L.; Melvin, T.; Nichol, R. C.; Skibba, R. A.; Willett, K. W. (2015-04-17)
      Does galaxy evolution proceed through the green valley via multiple pathways or as a single population? Motivated by recent results highlighting radically different evolutionary pathways between early- and late-type galaxies, ...

    • Galaxy Zoo: Hanny's Voorwerp, a quasar light echo? 

      Lintott, C.; Schawinski, K.; Keel, W.; Van Arkel, H.; Bennert, N.; Edmondson, E.; Thomas, D.; Smith, Daniel; Herbert, P.D.; Jarvis, M.J.; Virani, S.; Andreescu, D.; Bamford, S.; Land, K.; Murray, P.; Nichol, R.C.; Raddick, M.J.; Slosar, A.; Szalay, A.; Vandenberg, J. (2009)
      We report the discovery of an unusual object near the spiral galaxy IC 2497, discovered by visual inspection of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) as part of the Galaxy Zoo project. The object, known as Hanny's Voorwerp, ...

    • Galaxy Zoo: major galaxy mergers are not a significant quenching pathway 

      Weigel, Anna K.; Schawinski, Kevin; Caplar, Neven; Carpineti, Alfredo; Hart, Ross E.; Kaviraj, Sugata; Keel, William C.; Kruk, Sandor J.; Lintott, Chris J.; Nichol, Robert C.; Simmons, Brooke D.; Smethurst, Rebecca J. (2017-08-21)
      We use stellar mass functions to study the properties and the significance of quenching through major galaxy mergers. In addition to SDSS DR7 and Galaxy Zoo 1 data, we use samples of visually selected major galaxy mergers ...

    • Galaxy Zoo: Multimergers and the Millennium Simulation 

      Darg, D.W.; Kaviraj, S.; Lintott, C.J.; Silk, J.; Lynn, S.; Schawinski, K.; Bamford, S.; Nichol, R.C. (2011-09)
      We present a catalogue of 39 multiple mergers, found using the mergers catalogue of the Galaxy Zoo project for z <0.1, and compare them to corresponding semi-analytical galaxies from the Millennium Simulation. We estimate ...

    • Galaxy Zoo: Quantitative Visual Morphological Classifications for 48,000 galaxies from CANDELS 

      Simmons, B. D.; Lintott, Chris; Willett, Kyle W.; Masters, Karen L.; Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.; Häußler, Boris; Kaviraj, Sugata; Krawczyk, Coleman; Kruk, S. J.; McIntosh, Daniel H.; Smethurst, R. J.; Nichol, Robert C.; Scarlata, Claudia; Schawinski, Kevin; Conselice, Christopher J.; Almaini, Omar; Ferguson, Henry C.; Fortson, Lucy; Hartley, William; Kocevski, Dale; Koekemoer, Anton M.; Mortlock, Alice; Newman, Jeffrey A.; Bamford, Steven P.; Grogin, N. A.; Lucas, Ray A.; Hathi, Nimish P.; McGrath, Elizabeth; Peth, Michael; Pforr, Janine; Rizer, Zachary; Wuyts, Stijn; Barro, Guillermo; Bell, Eric F.; Castellano, Marco; Dahlen, Tomas; Ownsworth, Avishai Dekel Jamie; Faber, Sandra M.; Finkelstein, Steven L.; Fontana, Adriano; Galametz, Audrey; Grützbauch, Ruth; Koo, David; Lotz, Jennifer; Mobasher, Bahram; Mozena, Mark; Salvato, Mara; Wiklind, Tommy (2017-02-01)
      We present quantified visual morphologies of approximately 48,000 galaxies observed in three Hubble Space Telescope legacy fields by the Cosmic And Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) and classified ...

    • Galaxy Zoo: the fraction of merging galaxies in the SDSS and their morphologies 

      Darg, D.W.; Kaviraj, S.; Lintott, C.J.; Silk, J.; Schawinski, K.; Sarzi, M.; Bamford, S.; Proctor, R.; Andreescu, D.; Murray, P.; Nichol, R.C.; Thomas, D.; Raddick, M.J.; Szalay, A.S.; Vandenberg, J.; Slosar, A. (2010)
      We present the largest, most homogeneous catalogue of merging galaxies in the nearby Universe obtained through the Galaxy Zoo project – an interface on the World Wide Web enabling large-scale morphological classification ...

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

      Schawinski, K.; Urry, C.M.; Virani, S.; Coppi, P.; Bamford, S.; Treister, E.; Lintott, C.; Sarzi, M.; Keel, W.; Kaviraj, S.; Cardamone, C.; Masters, K.L.; Ross, N.P.; Andreescu, D.; Murray, P.; Nichol, R.C.; Raddick, M.J.; Slosar, A.; Szalay, A.; Thomas, D.; Vandenberg, J. (2010)
      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 to break down the active galactic nucleus ...

    • Galaxy Zoo: The properties of merging galaxies in the nearby Universe - Local environments, colours, masses, star formation rates and AGN activity 

      Darg, D.W.; Kaviraj, S.; Lintott, C.J.; Silk, J.; Schawinski, K.; Sarzi, M.; Bamford, S.; Andreescu, D.; Murray, P.; Nichol, R.C.; Thomas, D.; Raddick, M.J.; Szalay, A.S.; Vandenberg, J.; Slosar, A. (2010)
      Following the study of Darg et al., we explore the environments, optical colours, stellar masses, star formation and active galactic nucleus activity in a sample of 3003 pairs of merging galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital ...

    • Galaxy-cluster gas-density distributions of the Representative XMM-Newton Cluster Structure Survey (REXCESS) 

      Croston, J.H.; Pratt, G.W.; Boehringer, H.; Arnaud, M.; Pointecouteau, E.; Ponman, T.J.; Sanderson, A.J.R.; Temple, R.F.; Bower, R.; Donahue, M. (2008)

    • GALEV evolutionary synthesis models – I. Code, input physics and web interface 

      Kotulla, R.; Fritze, U.; Weilbacher, P.; Anders, P. (2009)
      galev (GALaxy EVolution) evolutionary synthesis models describe the evolution of stellar populations in general, of star clusters as well as of galaxies, both in terms of resolved stellar populations and of integrated light ...