Galaxy Zoo: the fraction of merging galaxies in the SDSS and their morphologies
Galaxy Zoo: the fraction of merging galaxies in the SDSS and their morphologies
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). The method converts a set …