"Do-it-ourselves science" - status?

[zookeeperJordan]

Hi all,

As I mentioned in today's Zooniverse Blogpost, Zookeeper Geza and I are trying to get ourselves organized to provide more support to what's become known as "Do-it-ourselves science" projects. These are projects where you all have gone above and beyond classifying galaxies into doing research projects on your own. Our first step is to get a handle on what research is going on right now.

For each project, I've given a short description of what the project is, the status as I last remember it, and a contact person that Geza and I can go to for initial questions. Obviously many people are involved in each of these, but the contact person is the one I've corresponded with the most. In some places, I was highly unsure, so I just put a question mark.

A few questions:

1) Did I get the details right?
2) Did I forget any projects?

Voorwerp
Description: The discovery of a strange blue object near to a galaxy.
Status: One paper has been written, and the Zookeepers are now following up with spectra with large telescopes to write further papers.
Contact people: Hanny and Kevin?

Peas
Description: A new class of galaxies discovered and studied by Zooites.
Status: One paper has been written, not sure what is being studied now.
Contact person: Carie

Irreguars
Description: A survey of irregular galaxies found in the Zoo
Status: Much study and graphing has been done, a paper is almost ready to be written?
Contact person: Waveney

Overlapping Spirals
Description: A study of spirals that overlap, meaning that the rear galaxy can be used as a torch to study the front galaxy's dust distribution
Status: ?
Contact person: Bill

Hypervelocity Stars
Description: Study of stars moving
Status: All 10 examples available in SDSS data have been found. Warren Brown is interested in participating. The study is holding right now while waiting for more data?
Contact person: Aida

Voorwerpjes
Description: ?
Status: ?
Contact person: ?

Void Galaxies
Description: characterizing the lonely galaxies that live in parts of the universe where there isn't much
Status: ?
Contact person: Tom Jennings


Cheers,
Jordan

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[Gargleblaster]

Hi Jordon

As far as the HVS are concerned everything look ok to me, but I am sure Aida will confirm.

Regards

Tony

Hi all,

As I mentioned in today's Zooniverse Blogpost, Zookeeper Geza and I are trying to get ourselves organized to provide more support to what's become known as "Do-it-ourselves science" projects. These are projects where you all have gone above and beyond classifying galaxies into doing research projects on your own. Our first step is to get a handle on what research is going on right now.

For each project, I've given a short description of what the project is, the status as I last remember it, and a contact person that Geza and I can go to for initial questions. Obviously many people are involved in each of these, but the contact person is the one I've corresponded with the most. In some places, I was highly unsure, so I just put a question mark.

A few questions:

1) Did I get the details right?
2) Did I forget any projects?

Voorwerp
Description: The discovery of a strange blue object near to a galaxy.
Status: One paper has been written, and the Zookeepers are now following up with spectra with large telescopes to write further papers.
Contact people: Hanny and Kevin?

Peas
Description: A new class of galaxies discovered and studied by Zooites.
Status: One paper has been written, not sure what is being studied now.
Contact person: Carie

Irreguars
Description: A survey of irregular galaxies found in the Zoo
Status: Much study and graphing has been done, a paper is almost ready to be written?
Contact person: Waveney

Overlapping Spirals
Description: A study of spirals that overlap, meaning that the rear galaxy can be used as a torch to study the front galaxy's dust distribution
Status: ?
Contact person: Bill

Hypervelocity Stars
Description: Study of stars moving
Status: All 10 examples available in SDSS data have been found. Warren Brown is interested in participating. The study is holding right now while waiting for more data?
Contact person: Aida

Voorwerpjes
Description: ?
Status: ?
Contact person: ?

Void Galaxies
Description: characterizing the lonely galaxies that live in parts of the universe where there isn't much
Status: ?
Contact person: Tom Jennings


Cheers,
Jordan

P.S. temporarily stickied

[Hanny]

1) Did I get the details right?
2) Did I forget any projects?

Voorwerp
Description: The discovery of a strange blue object near to a galaxy.
Status: One paper has been written, and the Zookeepers are now following up with spectra with large telescopes to write further papers.
Contact people: Hanny and Kevin?

Voorwerpjes
Description: ?
Status: ?
Contact person: ?

Hiya Jordan,

Bill should be on both of these as well me thinks.

[MyDogMilo]

I just started one called nearby peas devoted to finding peas near ourselves. this will help us know if peas still survive in the universe. how do we know how close they are to us? by also finding the redshift of the galaxy.