- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/435/2835
- Title:
- Morphological types from Galaxy Zoo 2
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/435/2835
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the data release for Galaxy Zoo 2 (GZ2), a citizen science project with more than 16 million morphological classifications of 304122 galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Morphology is a powerful probe for quantifying a galaxy's dynamical history; however, automatic classifications of morphology (either by computer analysis of images or by using other physical parameters as proxies) still have drawbacks when compared to visual inspection. The large number of images available in current surveys makes visual inspection of each galaxy impractical for individual astronomers. GZ2 uses classifications from volunteer citizen scientists to measure morphologies for all galaxies in the DR7 Legacy survey with m_r_>17, in addition to deeper images from SDSS Stripe 82. While the original GZ2 project identified galaxies as early-types, late-types or mergers, GZ2 measures finer morphological features. These include bars, bulges and the shapes of edge-on discs, as well as quantifying the relative strengths of galactic bulges and spiral arms. This paper presents the full public data release for the project, including measures of accuracy and bias. The majority (>90 per cent) of GZ2 classifications agree with those made by professional astronomers, especially for morphological T-types, strong bars and arm curvature. Both the raw and reduced data products can be obtained in electronic format at http://data.galaxyzoo.org .
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/410/166
- Title:
- Morphological types from Galaxy Zoo 1
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/410/166
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Morphology is a powerful indicator of a galaxy's dynamical and merger history. It is strongly correlated with many physical parameters, including mass, star formation history and the distribution of mass. The Galaxy Zoo project collected simple morphological classifications of nearly 900000 galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, contributed by hundreds of thousands of volunteers. This large number of classifications allows us to exclude classifier error, and measure the influence of subtle biases inherent in morphological classification. This paper presents the data collected by the project, alongside measures of classification accuracy and bias. The data are now publicly available and full catalogues can be downloaded in electronic format from http://data.galaxyzoo.org .
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/376/125
- Title:
- Morphologies and photometry in A2218
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/376/125
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a study of the stellar populations and morphologies of galaxies in the core of the galaxy cluster Abell 2218. Integral field spectroscopy (IFS) observations were performed using PMAS in the PPAK mode covering a field of view of ~74x64arcsec^2^ centred on the core of the cluster, in order to obtain spectroscopy of an unbiased flux-limited sample of cluster galaxies. 43 objects were detected in the IFS data, 31 of them with enough signal-to-noise ratio to derive the redshift, all of them brighter than I<21.5mag. 28 are at the redshift of the cluster (17 with previously unknown redshift). Individual spectra of the cluster members were extracted and compared with single stellar population models to derive the luminosity-weighted ages and metallicities. In addition, deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/ACS F475W-, F555W-, F625W- and F850LP-band images centred on the cluster core were obtained from the HST archive (zlim~28mag). A detailed morphological analysis of all the galaxies within the field of view of these images down to zlim<22.5mag was performed classifying them as late-type, intermediate and early-type, on the basis of their Sersic indices. The literature was scanned to look for spectroscopically confirmed cluster members located within the field of view of the ACS image. The final sample of 59 galaxies comprises our reported sample of 28 galaxies in the core, and 31 additional galaxies in the outer regions. In addition, multiband broad-band photometry was extracted from the literature for all objects.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/107/1
- Title:
- Morphologies of distant galaxies II
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/107/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The morphological properties of high-redshift galaxies are investigated using a sample of 507 objects (I<22.0mag) from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Medium Deep Survey. Independent visual morphological classifications for each galaxy are used to quantify the statistical uncertainties in the galaxy classifications. Visual classifications are found to agree well for I<21mag. Fainter than I=21mag significant disagreements are seen in the independent visual classifications of late-type systems with T>7, merging systems, and peculiar galaxies. The classifications of these systems are shown to be somewhat subjective. Objective classifications based upon measurements of central concentration and asymmetry for the Medium Deep Survey sample are presented. These classifications are calibrated using measurements of structural parameters for an artificially redshifted sample of local objects. Morphologically segregated number counts using both sets of visual classifications and objective classifications support the conclusion that the observed galaxy counts agree with no-evolution predictions for the elliptical and spiral populations, as reported in Glazebrook et al. (1995MNRAS.275L..19G). A major conclusion is that the large overdensity of merging/ peculiar/ irregular galaxies relative to the predictions of no-evolution models (reported by Glazebrook et al. 1995MNRAS.275L..19G) is confirmed. However, the shape of the faint-end (I>21.0mag) number count relation for peculiar objects is sensitive to the large systematic uncertainties inherent in the visual classification of these objects. Despite this caveat, the frequency of objects showing clear evidence for tidal interactions (e.g., tidal tails) in the HST sample is at least 50% larger than it is among nearby galaxies, at the 2{sigma} level. Relatively few "chain galaxies" are seen among the sample of peculiar objects, suggesting that these systems do not form a large component of the peculiar galaxy population at I<22mag.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/140/533
- Title:
- Morphologies of selected AGN
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/140/533
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate the optical morphologies of candidate active galaxies identified at radio, X-ray, and mid-infrared wavelengths. We use the Advanced Camera for Surveys General Catalog (ACS-GC) to identify 372, 1360, and 1238 active galactic nucleus (AGN) host galaxies from Very Large Array, XMM-Newton, and Spitzer Space Telescope observations of the COSMOS field, respectively. We investigate both quantitative (GALFIT) and qualitative (visual) morphologies of these AGN host galaxies, split by brightness in their selection band.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/444/3015
- Title:
- Morphologies of S4G galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/444/3015
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalogue and images of visually detected features, such as asymmetries, extensions, warps, shells, tidal tails, polar rings, and obvious signs of mergers or interactions, in the faint outer regions (at and outside of R_25_) of nearby galaxies. This catalogue can be used in future quantitative studies that examine galaxy evolution due to internal and external factors. We are able to reliably detect outer region features down to a brightness level of 0.03MJy/sr/pixel at 3.6{mu}m in the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G). We also tabulate companion galaxies. We find asymmetries in the outer isophotes in 22+/-1% of the sample. The asymmetry fraction does not correlate with galaxy classification as an interacting galaxy or merger remnant, or with the presence of companions. We also compare the detected features to similar features in galaxies taken from cosmological zoom re-simulations. The simulated images have a higher fraction (33%) of outer disc asymmetries, which may be due to selection effects and an uncertain star formation threshold in the models. The asymmetries may have either an internal (e.g. lopsidedness due to dark halo asymmetry) or external origin.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/219/15
- Title:
- Morphologies of z=0-10 galaxies with HST data
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/219/15
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the redshift evolution of the galaxy effective radius r_e_ obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) samples of ~190000 galaxies at z=0-10. Our HST samples consist of 176152 photo-z galaxies at z=0-6 from the 3D-HST+CANDELS catalog (Skelton+, 2014, J/ApJS/214/24) and 10454 Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at z=4-10 identified in the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS), HUDF 09/12, and HFF parallel fields, (Harikane+, 2015, in prep) providing the largest data set to date for galaxy size evolution studies. We derive r_e_ with the same technique over the wide redshift range of z=0-10, evaluating the optical-to-UV morphological K correction and the selection bias of photo-z galaxies+LBGs as well as the cosmological surface-brightness dimming effect.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/217/27
- Title:
- Morphologies of z<0.01 SDSS-DR7 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/217/27
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The morphological types of 5836 galaxies were classified by a visual inspection of color images using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 to produce a morphology catalog of a representative sample of local galaxies with z<0.01. The sample galaxies are almost complete for galaxies brighter than r_pet_=17.77. Our classification system is basically the same as that of the Third Reference Catalog of Bright Galaxies with some simplifications for giant galaxies. On the other hand, we distinguish the fine features of dwarf elliptical (dE)-like galaxies to classify five subtypes: dE, blue-cored dwarf ellipticals, dwarf spheroidals (dSph), blue dwarf ellipticals (dE_blue_), and dwarf lenticulars (dS0). In addition, we note the presence of nucleation in dE, dSph, and dS0. Elliptical galaxies and lenticular galaxies contribute only ~1.5 and 4.9% of local galaxies, respectively, whereas spirals and irregulars contribute ~32.1 and ~42.8%, respectively. The dE_blue_ galaxies, which are a recently discovered population of galaxies, contribute a significant fraction of dwarf galaxies. There seem to be structural differences between dSph and dE galaxies. The dSph galaxies are fainter and bluer with a shallower surface brightness gradient than dE galaxies. They also have a lower fraction of galaxies with small axis ratios (b/a<~0.4) than dE galaxies. The mean projected distance to the nearest neighbor galaxy is ~260 kpc. About 1% of local galaxies have no neighbors with comparable luminosity within a projected distance of 2Mpc.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/146/151
- Title:
- Morphology catalog of nearby galaxies from SDSS DR7
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/146/151
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the statistical properties of a volume-limited sample of 7429 nearby (z=0.033-0.044) galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. Our database includes morphology distribution as well as the structural and spectroscopic properties of each morphology type based on the recent remeasurements of spectral line strengths by Oh and collaborators. Our database does not include galaxies that are apparently smaller and flatter because morphology classification of them turned out to be difficult. Our statistics confirmed the up-to-date knowledge of galaxy populations, e.g., correlations between morphology and line strengths as well as the derived ages. We hope that this database will be useful as a reference.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/652/1068
- Title:
- Morphology of cool and warm infrared galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/652/1068
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have analyzed a sample of nearby cool and warm infrared (IR) galaxies using photometric and structural parameters. The set of measures include far-infrared color [C=log(S_60um_/S_100um_)], total IR luminosity (L_FIR_), radio surface brightness, and radio, near-infrared, and optical sizes.
