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A Citizen-Science-enabled Comprehensive Search for XUV-disk Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2017

David A. Thilker
David A. Thilker*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA email: dthilker@jhu.edu
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Abstract

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Initial efforts to identify extended UV disk (XUV-disk) galaxies were confined to nearby targets using image products from early in the GALEX mission. We developed a beta Zooniverse-based citizen science project to address this issue, specifically (1) allowing a dramatically larger galaxy sample by crowd-sourcing blink comparison UV-optical image inspection to volunteers, and (2) incorporating all archived GALEX data for each target considered. We aim to widely deploy this project to the public within the upcoming year.

Keywords

galaxies: structuregalaxies: evolutionultraviolet: galaxiesmethods: data analysis

References

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