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Galaxy Zoo 3D: Identifying Bars, Spirals and Foreground Stars in MaNGA Galaxy Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2023

Karen L. Masters Open the ORCID record for Karen L. Masters [Opens in a new window]
Karen L. Masters*
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Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, USA email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Galaxies, particularly disc galaxies, show a wide variety of internal structures (e.g. spirals, bars, and bulges). Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA, part of the fourth incarnation of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys), obtained spatially resolved spectral maps for 10,010 nearby galaxies. Many results from MaNGA have collapsed this structure into azimuthally averaged radial gradients, or symmetric 2D shapes, but there is significantly more information about the effect internal structures have on the evolution of galaxies available if we can identify different internal structures. One of the simplest ways to identify irregular internal structures in galaxies is by visual inspection. By employing a citizen science technique to ask this question of N independent volunteers we have obtained quantitatively robust masks (and errors) for spirals and bars in MaNGA target galaxies. In addition to internal features the interface asked users to identify foreground stars and foreground/background galaxies.

Keywords

galaxies: structuregalaxies: spiraltechniques: spectroscopicmethods: data analysissurveys
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Contributed Paper
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 17 , Symposium S373: Resolving the Rise and Fall of Star Formation in Galaxies , August 2021 , pp. 39 - 41
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