Galaxy Zoo: Multi-Mergers and the Millennium Simulation by Darg, D, Kaviraj, S, Lintott, C, Schawinski, K, Silk, J, Lynn, S, Bamford, S, Nichol, R

“…We present a catalogue of 39 multiple-mergers found using the mergers catalogue of the Galaxy Zoo project for $z<0.1$ and compare them to corresponding semi-analytical galaxies from the Millennium Simulation. …”

Galaxy Zoo: the fraction of merging galaxies in the SDSS and their morphologies by Darg, D, Kaviraj, S, Lintott, C, Schawinski, K, Sarzi, M, Bamford, S, Silk, J, Proctor, R, Andreescu, D, Murray, P, Nichol, R, Raddick, M, Slosar, A, Szalay, A, Thomas, D, Vandenberg, J

“…We present the largest, most homogeneous catalogue of merging galaxies in the nearby universe obtained through the Galaxy Zoo project - an interface on the world-wide web enabling large-scale morphological classification of galaxies through visual inspection of images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). …”

Galaxy Zoo: The fraction of merging galaxies in the SDSS and their morphologies by Darg, D, Kaviraj, S, Lintott, C, Schawinski, K, Sarzi, M, Bamford, S, Silk, J, Proctor, R, Andreescu, D, Murray, P, Nichol, R, Raddick, M, Slosar, A, Szalay, A, Thomas, D, Vandenberg, J

“…We present the largest, most homogeneous catalogue of merging galaxies in the nearby Universe obtained through the Galaxy Zoo project - an interface on the World Wide Web enabling large-scale morphological classification of galaxies through visual inspection of images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). …”

Galaxy Zoo: Dust and molecular gas in early-type galaxies with prominent dust lanes by Kaviraj, S, Ting, Y, Bureau, M, Shabala, S, Crockett, R, Silk, J, Lintott, C, Smith, A, Keel, W, Masters, K, Schawinski, K, Bamford, S

Galaxy Zoo: dust and molecular gas in early-type galaxies with prominent dust lanes by Kaviraj, S, Ting, Y, Bureau, M, Shabala, S, Crockett, R, Silk, J, Lintott, C, Smith, A, Keel, W, Masters, K, Schawinski, K, Bamford, S

Galaxy Zoo: dust lane early-type galaxies are tracers of recent, gas-rich minor mergers by Shabala, S, Ting, Y, Kaviraj, S, Lintott, C, Crockett, R, Silk, J, Sarzi, M, Schawinski, K, Bamford, S, Edmondson, E

Galaxy Zoo: Dust lane early-type galaxies are tracers of recent, gas-rich minor mergers by Shabala, S, Ting, Y, Kaviraj, S, Lintott, C, Crockett, R, Silk, J, Sarzi, M, Schawinski, K, Bamford, S, Edmondson, E

Galaxy Zoo: The properties of merging galaxies in the nearby Universe - local environments, colours, masses, star-formation rates and AGN activity by Darg, D, Kaviraj, S, Lintott, C, Schawinski, K, Sarzi, M, Bamford, S, Silk, J, Andreescu, D, Murray, P, Nichol, R, Raddick, M, Slosar, A, Szalay, A, Thomas, D, Vandenberg, J

“…Following the study of Darg et al. (2009; hereafter D09a) we explore the environments, optical colours, stellar masses, star formation and AGN activity in a sample of 3003 pairs of merging galaxies drawn from the SDSS using visual classifications from the Galaxy Zoo project. While D09a found that the spiral-to-elliptical ratio in (major) mergers appeared higher than that of the global galaxy population, no significant differences are found between the environmental distributions of mergers and a randomly selected control sample. …”

Galaxy Zoo: The properties of merging galaxies in the nearby Universe - Local environments, colours, masses, star formation rates and AGN activity by Darg, D, Kaviraj, S, Lintott, C, Schawinski, K, Sarzi, M, Bamford, S, Silk, J, Andreescu, D, Murray, P, Nichol, R, Raddick, M, Slosar, A, Szalay, A, Thomas, D, Vandenberg, J

“…Following the study of Darg et al., we explore the environments, optical colours, stellar masses, star formation and active galactic nucleus activity in a sample of 3003 pairs of merging galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using visual classifications from the Galaxy Zoo project. While Darg et al. found that the spiral-to-elliptical ratio in (major) mergers appeared higher than that of the global galaxy population, no significant differences are found between the environmental distributions of mergers and a randomly selected control sample. …”

Pattern Recognition in Astrophysics and the Anthropic Principle by Darg, D

“…We first try solving the pattern-recognition problem of locating mergers using the Galaxy Zoo database and produce the largest homogenous merger catalogue to date. …”