Radio Galaxy Zoo Highlights from 2015
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a relaxing break. Radio Galaxy Zoo had a couple of highlights over the last year with new discoveries that will be out later this year. Well done everyone!
We now have over 1.45 million classifications and are at 48% complete.
Here are a few of our notable highlights:
Papers
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Our first paper “Radio Galaxy Zoo: host galaxies and radio morphologies derived from visual inspection” was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) in September;
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upon the recommendation of our referee, our paper on hybrid morphology radio sources will be split into two papers; and
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the giant wide angle tail (WAT) discovery paper will be available soon.
Surprises
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progress on the giant WAT is continuing to bring up more interesting information including our JVLA data – potentially 3 additional papers;
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we obtained 4 hours to obtain a spectrum for four of our green DRAGN with the observations scheduled for March 2016; and
- with all your work, RGZ has discovered over 100 new giant radio galaxies!
We are continuing to work away on the data that keeps coming in. Keep your eye out for our next few projects:
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matching of RGZ classifications to SDSS;
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merging Galaxy Zoo data with Radio Galaxy Zoo data;
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our observations with the JVLA on the hybrid radio sample is complete with 60 hours of observing time; and
- we are working with the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to get the RGZ name official.
A big welcome to our new team members:
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Martin Hardcastle (Hertfordshire)
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Sarah White (ICRAR/Curtin)
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Francesco de Gasperin (Leiden)
All of this could not have been accomplished without all of you – big THANK YOU! Looking forward to a great 2016!
Julie, Ivy and the RGZ team
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- - January 11, 2016
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bonne année 2016 et plein d’étoiles
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:25:04 +0000 To: alaindi30@hotmail.com
Hello! My name is Zarah and I have been a long time user of galaxy zoo! I was wondering if the Galaxy zoo radio labeled data sets will ever be released to the general public?