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The Reliability of Galaxy Classifications by Citizen Scientists
Chemistry and Physics Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures
  • Lennox Francis, Nova Southeastern University
  • Stefan Kautsch, Nova Southeastern University
  • Dmitry V. Bizyaev, Apache Point Observatory
Event Name/Location
229th American Astronomical Society Meeting, Grapevine, Texas, January 3-7, 2017
Presentation Date
1-1-2017
Document Type
Poster
Description

Citizen scientists are becoming more and more important in helping professionals working through big data. An example in astronomy is crowdsourced galaxy classification. But how reliable are these classifications for studies of galaxy evolution? We present a tool in order to investigate those morphological classifications and test it on a diverse population on our campus. We observe a slight offset towards earlier Hubble types in the crowdsourced morphologies, when compared to professional classifications.

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©2017: American Astronomical Society

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Citation Information
Lennox Francis, Stefan Kautsch and Dmitry V. Bizyaev. "The Reliability of Galaxy Classifications by Citizen Scientists" (2017)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/stefan-kautsch/48/