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TY - JOUR
T1 - Gems of the Galaxy Zoos—A Wide-ranging Hubble Space Telescope Gap-filler Program*
AU - Keel, William C.
AU - Tate, Jean
AU - Wong, O. Ivy
AU - Banfield, Julie K.
AU - Lintott, Chris J.
AU - Masters, Karen L.
AU - Simmons, Brooke D.
AU - Scarlata, Claudia
AU - Cardamone, Carolin
AU - Smethurst, Rebecca
AU - Fortson, Lucy
AU - Shanahan, Jesse
AU - Kruk, Sandor
AU - Garland, Izzy L.
AU - Hancock, Colin
AU - O’Ryan, David
PY - 2022/4/1
Y1 - 2022/4/1
N2 - We describe the Gems of the Galaxy Zoos (Zoo Gems) project, a gap-filler project using short windows in the Hubble Space Telescope's schedule. As with previous snapshot programs, targets are taken from a pool based on position; we combine objects selected by volunteers in both the Galaxy Zoo and Radio Galaxy Zoo citizen-science projects. Zoo Gems uses exposures with the Advanced Camera for Surveys to address a broad range of topics in galaxy morphology, interstellar-medium content, host galaxies of active galactic nuclei, and galaxy evolution. Science cases include studying galaxy interactions, backlit dust in galaxies, post-starburst systems, rings and peculiar spiral patterns, outliers from the usual color–morphology relation, Green Pea compact starburst systems, double radio sources with spiral host galaxies, and extended emission-line regions around active galactic nuclei. For many of these science categories, final selection of targets from a larger list used public input via a voting process. Highlights to date include the prevalence of tightly wound spiral structure in blue, apparently early-type galaxies, a nearly complete Einstein ring from a group lens, redder components at lower surface brightness surrounding compact Green Pea starbursts, and high-probability examples of spiral galaxies hosting large double radio sources.
AB - We describe the Gems of the Galaxy Zoos (Zoo Gems) project, a gap-filler project using short windows in the Hubble Space Telescope's schedule. As with previous snapshot programs, targets are taken from a pool based on position; we combine objects selected by volunteers in both the Galaxy Zoo and Radio Galaxy Zoo citizen-science projects. Zoo Gems uses exposures with the Advanced Camera for Surveys to address a broad range of topics in galaxy morphology, interstellar-medium content, host galaxies of active galactic nuclei, and galaxy evolution. Science cases include studying galaxy interactions, backlit dust in galaxies, post-starburst systems, rings and peculiar spiral patterns, outliers from the usual color–morphology relation, Green Pea compact starburst systems, double radio sources with spiral host galaxies, and extended emission-line regions around active galactic nuclei. For many of these science categories, final selection of targets from a larger list used public input via a voting process. Highlights to date include the prevalence of tightly wound spiral structure in blue, apparently early-type galaxies, a nearly complete Einstein ring from a group lens, redder components at lower surface brightness surrounding compact Green Pea starbursts, and high-probability examples of spiral galaxies hosting large double radio sources.
U2 - 10.3847/1538-3881/ac517d
DO - 10.3847/1538-3881/ac517d
M3 - Journal article
VL - 163
JO - The Astronomical Journal
JF - The Astronomical Journal
SN - 0004-6256
IS - 4
M1 - 150
ER -