Science

Information about the science for Galaxy Zoo Quench.

29 conversations

• Characterising classification biases

  19 posts / 5 participants

  Last post November 29, 2013 7:14 PM by JeanTate

• Core Questions for GZ Quench

  7 posts / 4 participants

  Last post October 11, 2013 12:47 PM by zutopian

• Sample Selection: Post-quenched galaxy and control galaxy

  82 posts / 7 participants

  Last post January 3, 2014 10:48 PM by mlpeck

• Companions: how to tell when they're part of a merger?

  6 posts / 2 participants

  Last post October 26, 2014 6:36 PM by JeanTate

• QS and QC objects as radio sources

  2 posts / 1 participants

  Last post October 19, 2014 4:07 AM by ivywong

• What is a "BPT diagram"? Why do astronomers like to use them?

  5 posts / 3 participants

  Last post March 9, 2014 1:42 AM by JeanTate

• Signal to Noise Cuts on Sample Selection

  3 posts / 2 participants

  Last post March 6, 2014 12:43 AM by JeanTate

• How to tell how much dust there is in a QS (or QC) galaxy, from the spectroscopic (or photometric) data in the catalogs?

  25 posts / 4 participants

  Last post October 18, 2013 11:28 AM by zutopian

• How to use TOPCAT to match catalogs like GZ1 and GZ2 and sort?

  2 posts / 1 participants

  Last post October 18, 2013 10:53 AM by JeanTate

• What did you expect of Phase 2 of the Quench project? Hope? Wish? The 'doing' of science: perception vs reality ...

  7 posts / 3 participants

  Last post October 2, 2013 12:31 PM by JeanTate

• Control Sample

  10 posts / 2 participants

  Last post September 23, 2013 8:55 PM by JeanTate

• "Post-Quenched" = "E+A" = "K+A"?

  10 posts / 4 participants

  Last post September 23, 2013 7:12 AM by zutopian

• New Classifications Needed

  11 posts / 4 participants

  Last post August 29, 2013 4:41 PM by trouille

• Discussions *about* the Quench project? About the Stage 2 and Stage 3 processes?

  1 posts / 1 participants

  Last post August 18, 2013 4:01 PM by JeanTate

• What are the bumps in this spectrum?

  5 posts / 1 participants

  Last post August 12, 2013 2:07 AM by JeanTate

• Is the aperture that fed the SDSS spectrograph fibers 3" in diameter, or 3" in radius?

  2 posts / 2 participants

  Last post August 9, 2013 8:29 PM by jtmendel

• The Cosmic BPT Diagram: Confronting Theory with Observations - relevant to us?

  5 posts / 3 participants

  Last post August 9, 2013 7:57 PM by JeanTate

• A Dichotomy in Satellite Quenching Around L* Galaxies - relevant to us?

  1 posts / 1 participants

  Last post August 6, 2013 3:00 PM by JeanTate

• "Our goal is to complete Stage 1 in 2 weeks (by August 1st)" - Achieved!

  1 posts / 1 participants

  Last post August 2, 2013 2:17 PM by JeanTate

• How does DR10 (and GZ2) being made public change things, for the Quench project?

  3 posts / 2 participants

  Last post August 1, 2013 8:11 PM by JeanTate

• "Reliable masses"?

  4 posts / 3 participants

  Last post August 1, 2013 8:09 PM by JeanTate

• What is "color"?

  1 posts / 1 participants

  Last post August 1, 2013 5:19 PM by JeanTate

• Any tutorial(s) on the tools?

  4 posts / 4 participants

  Last post August 1, 2013 12:12 AM by trouille

• #galaxy

  3 posts / 3 participants

  Last post August 1, 2013 12:12 AM by trouille

• Hα in spectra.

  7 posts / 3 participants

  Last post July 31, 2013 4:53 PM by JeanTate

• Sequential drop-out of forbidden nebular lines, with 'star-burst fade'?

  1 posts / 1 participants

  Last post July 25, 2013 10:11 PM by JeanTate

• Galaxy star formation

  3 posts / 3 participants

  Last post July 24, 2013 8:19 PM by astropixie

• What does "6.7% done!" mean?

  8 posts / 3 participants

  Last post July 23, 2013 4:33 PM by JeanTate

• Galaxy Zoo Quench is Live!

  1 posts / 1 participants

  Last post July 18, 2013 4:37 PM by trouille