http://www.galaxyzooblog.org The official blog of the Galaxy Zoo project Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:50:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back in March I was speaking to a colleague of mine in Nottingham, Seb Foucaud, about the Galaxy Zoo Peas, and showing him Carie's paper. Seb works primarily on very distant (high redshift) massive galaxies, often using data from the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey. He quickly noticed that ... http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2009/07/03/more-peas/ Writing the Peas paper has been a great experience for me. I’m still new to the process; its only my 3rd paper and my first with Galaxy Zoo. Kevin and Jordan suggested that I use my experience here to talk a little bit about the process of writing a ... http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2009/07/02/the-story-of-the-peas-writing-a-scientific-paper/ Sometimes in scientific research opportunities collide and lead to rather busy days. Yesterday I had such a day, and since it involved me giving two presentations about Galaxy Zoo I thought you might be interested to hear about it. In the morning I gave a talk "Galaxy Evolution in the Galaxy ... http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2009/07/02/a-busy-galaxy-zoo-day/ We are happy to announce that our paper, "Galaxy Zoo: Disentangling the Environmental Dependence of Morphology and Colour", has been accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the RAS. We showed that much, but not all, of the correlation between a galaxy's morphology and its large-scale environment can ... http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2009/07/01/latest-galaxy-zoo-paper-accepted/ Alice Sheppard has had various jobs in administration, environment, teaching and writing whenever she can - but as soon as she started moderating the Galaxy Zoo Forum nearly 2 years ago, she knew that this was her real work. She'd been hooked on astronomy and science since she was very ... http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2009/07/01/shes-an-astronomer-alice-sheppard/ The Galaxy Zoo AGN host galaxies paper is nearing the final draft stage. Note to self: when converting a document from British to American spelling, do not just automatically replace all instances of `ise' with `ize!' http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2009/06/30/finishing-that-paper-ii/ I'm delighted to announce that the fifth Galaxy Zoo paper - the one that discusses Hanny's Voorwerp - has now been accepted for publication by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. It's somewhat of a relief to say that, as it was way back in August of last year that ... http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2009/06/29/voorwerps-everywhere/ A group of young cosmology researchers at the University of Portsmouth (where a number of Zoo people work) are trying to start a video podcast outreach project. The working title is "Our Universe" and the idea is that these would be short video podcasts, probably released on You Tube which ... http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2009/06/23/questions-about-cosmology/ When you start to write a paper for publication, you generally think that it will take a fortnight, at most. Naturally, that's almost always a highly optimistic estimate and it can take months to get a paper into shape for submission to a journal.  I'm currently working on the Galaxy Zoo paper ... http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2009/06/20/finishing-that-paper/ My colleagues and I are happy to say that the eleventh Galaxy Zoo paper has now been submitted to the journal Astronomy Education Review. The paper is called "Galaxy Zoo: Exploring the Motivations of Citizen Science Volunteers," and the authors are myself, Georgia Bracey, Pamela, and Chris, Phil, Kevin, Alex, ... http://www.galaxyzooblog.org/2009/06/18/eleventh-galaxy-zoo-paper-submitted/