Merger or Not: Accounting for Human Biases in Identifying Galactic Merger Signatures
Merger or Not: Accounting for Human Biases in Identifying Galactic Merger Signatures
Significant galaxy mergers throughout cosmic time play a fundamental role in theories of galaxy evolution. The widespread usage of human classifiers to visually assess whether galaxies are in merging systems remains a fundamental component of many morphology studies. Studies that employ human classifiers usually construct a control sample, and rely …