karen masters: astronomy outreach with galaxy zoo and the zooniverse

Astronomy Outreach with

Karen Masters

ICG Portsmouth, UK

Galaxy Zoo

Scientific Impact of Galaxy Zoo

Galaxy Zoo papers (including submitted) since 2007: 61

Number of non-GZ papers mentioning “Galaxy Zoo” since 2007: 603

Citations to 1st Galaxy Zoo project paper (Lintott+08): 277

Total citations to all Galaxy Zoo papers: >2,000

Getting others to use your data & your science: priceless

www.zooniverse.org/publications

Karen Masters: Galaxy Zoo, 4th August 2015 @KarenLMasters

8 years of Galaxy Zoo

July 2007: Galaxy Zoo 1: 1 million SDSS galaxies

Feb 2009: Galaxy Zoo 2: detailed morphology, 0.25 million SDSS

Galaxy Zoo Bar Lengths: Bar

lengths, widths for 3000 GZ2 bars

Apr 2010: Galaxy Zoo Hubble: Public optical HST surveys COSMOS, GOODS etc.

Aug 2012: Galaxy Zoo 4: new software, HST CANDELS and SDSS DR8

Galaxy Zoo Quench: Small project,

more engagement

Oct 2013: UKIDSS: 70,000 UKIDSS images of SDSS galaxies (+FERENGI redshifted images, SDSS DR8,

CANDELS)

Jan 2014: Radio: Cross-matching IR and radio images of galaxies

Now: more CANDELS/HST images, SDSS single filter

Soon: Illustrius, DECaLS (DES we hope) …… and more

Karen Masters: Galaxy Zoo, 4th August 2015 @KarenLMasters

8 years of Galaxy Zoo

July 2007: Galaxy Zoo 1: 1 million SDSS galaxies

Feb 2009: Galaxy Zoo 2: detailed morphology, 0.25 million SDSS

Galaxy Zoo Bar Lengths: Bar

lengths, widths for 3000 GZ2 bars

Apr 2010: Galaxy Zoo Hubble: Public optical HST surveys COSMOS, GOODS etc.

Aug 2012: Galaxy Zoo 4: new software, HST CANDELS and SDSS DR8

Galaxy Zoo Quench: Small project,

more engagement

Oct 2013: UKIDSS: 70,000 UKIDSS images of SDSS galaxies (+FERENGI redshifted images, SDSS DR8,

CANDELS)

Jan 2014: Radio: Cross-matching IR and radio images of galaxies

Now: more CANDELS/HST images, SDSS single filter

Soon: Illustrius, DECaLS (DES we hope) …… and more

2010: launch of Zooniverse

• www.zooniverse.org

• 1.3 million users

• more than 30 projects

• from ancient papyrus, to WW1 diaries,

whale song and penguin watching

~30 active projects

1.4 million volunteers

Karen Masters: Galaxy Zoo, 4th August 2015 @KarenLMasters

The Zooites (A Human Computer)

(Raddick et al. 2009 astroph/0909.2925)

In 2015:

~15,000 classifications per week

Galaxy Zoo for Educators

Galaxy Zoo for Educators

Galaxy Zoo Navigator

Galaxy Zoo Navigator

Galaxy Zoo Navigator

Zooteach

Zooniverse.org

Zooniverse Project Builder

Zooniverse Project Builder

Zooniverse.org

Galaxy Zoo for Outreach

Building Your Own Project

Making it real….

“Hands on, minds on science”

“Thrill of possible discovery””

“Teaches that not everything has been

discovered”

education.zooniverse.org

Victoria Talkington, Middle

School Teacher

www.sdss.org

outreach@sdss.org

www.galaxyzoo.org

@galaxyzoo

www.zooniverse.org

@the_zooniverse

www.zooteach.org

@zooteach

karen.masters@port.ac.uk

@KarenLMasters