Dataciencia

Colección SciELO Chile

Identification of ram pressure stripping features in galaxies using citizen science

Indexado

WoS	WOS:001421982100035
Scopus	SCOPUS_ID:85218136592

DOI

10.1051/0004-6361/202450371

Año

2025

Tipo

artículo de investigación

Citas Totales

Autores Afiliación Chile

Instituciones Chile

% Participación
Internacional

Autores
Afiliación Extranjera

Instituciones
Extranjeras

Abstract

Context. Ram pressure stripped galaxies are rare cases of environmental evolution in action. However, our ability to understand these transforming galaxies is limited by the small number of identified galaxies experiencing ram pressure stripping (RPS). Aims. Our aim is to explore the efficacy of citizen science classifications in identifying ram pressure stripped galaxies, and use this to aid in motivating new potential samples of ram pressure stripped candidates. Methods. We compiled a sample of over 200 known ram pressure stripped galaxies from the existing literature, with morphological classifications obtained from Galaxy Zoo. We compared these galaxies with magnitude and redshift-matched comparison cluster and field galaxies. Additionally, we created a sample of SDSS cluster galaxies, with morphological classifications similar to known ram pressure stripped galaxies, and compared the fraction of potential new RPS candidates against control samples. Results. We find that ram pressure stripped galaxies exhibit a higher proportion of 'odd' and 'irregular' morphological classifications compared to field and cluster comparison samples. This trend is particularly pronounced in galaxies displaying strong optical ram pressure stripping features, but absent from galaxies with only radio tails. We find that SDSS galaxies with Galaxy Zoo classifications consistent with the known RPS galaxies have a higher fraction of visible ram pressure stripping features (19%) compared with other cluster galaxies (12%) when classified by experts. We identify 101 new ram pressure stripping candidate galaxies through these expert classifications. Conclusions. We demonstrate that indirect morphological classifications from citizen science projects can increase the efficiency with which new stripping candidates are found. Projects such as Galaxy Zoo can aid in the identification of ram pressure stripped galaxies that are key to understanding galaxy evolution in clusters.

Revista

Revista	ISSN
Astronomy & Astrophysics	0004-6361

Métricas Externas

PlumX	Altmetric	Dimensions

Muestra métricas de impacto externas asociadas a la publicación. Para mayor detalle:

Plumx: https://plumanalytics.com/learn/about-metrics/
Altmetric: https://www.altmetric.com/about-altmetrics/what-are-altmetrics/
Dimensions: https://www.dimensions.ai/why-dimensions/

Disciplinas de Investigación

WOS
Astronomy & Astrophysics

Scopus
Sin Disciplinas

SciELO
Sin Disciplinas

Muestra la distribución de disciplinas para esta publicación.

Publicaciones WoS (Ediciones: ISSHP, ISTP, AHCI, SSCI, SCI), Scopus, SciELO Chile.

Colaboración Institucional

Muestra la distribución de colaboración, tanto nacional como extranjera, generada en esta publicación.

Autores - Afiliación

Ord.	Autor	Género	Institución - País
1	Crossett, Jacob P.	Hombre	Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Chile Universidad de Valparaíso - Chile
2	Jaffe, Yara L.	-	Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Chile Universidad de Valparaíso - Chile
3	McGee, Sean L.	Hombre	Univ Birmingham - Reino Unido University of Birmingham - Reino Unido
4	Smith, R.	-	Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Chile
5	Bellhouse, C.	Hombre	INAF Astron Observ Padova - Italia Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova - Italia
6	Bettoni, Daniela	-	INAF Astron Observ Padova - Italia Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova - Italia
7	Vulcani, Benedetta	Mujer	INAF Astron Observ Padova - Italia Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova - Italia
8	Kelkar, K.	-	Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - Chile Vera C Rubin Observ - Chile Vera C. Rubin Observatory - Chile
9	Lourenco, Ana C. C.	-	Universidad de Valparaíso - Chile European Southern Obervatory ESO - Chile European Southern Observatory Santiago - Chile

Muestra la afiliación y género (detectado) para los co-autores de la publicación.

Financiamiento

Fuente
National Science Foundation
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico
Chinese Academy of Sciences
U.S. Department of Energy
American Museum of Natural History
Ohio State University
Science and Technology Facilities Council
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Johns Hopkins University
New Mexico State University
University of Portsmouth
Princeton University
University of Washington
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
University of Chicago
University of Cambridge
Higher Education Funding Council for England
University of Pittsburgh
Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics
Institute for Advanced Study
Case Western Reserve University
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Drexel University
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
LAMOST
U.S. Naval Observatory
Comite Mixto ESO-Gobierno de Chile
Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, University of Basel
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo
Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik
Agenția Națională pentru Cercetare și Dezvoltare

Muestra la fuente de financiamiento declarada en la publicación.

Agradecimientos

Agradecimiento
The authors thank the referee for their comments that enhanced the quality of manuscript. The authors thank Bianca Poggianti for helpful discussions and classifications for this work. The authors also wish to thank Alessandro Omizzolo, Matilde Mingozzi, Paula Calder\u00F3n-Castillo, Koshy George, and Stephanie Tonnesen for help with expert classifications. JPC acknowledges financial support from ANID through FONDECYT Postdoctorado Project 3210709, as well as support from Comit\u00E9 Mixto ESO-Gobierno de Chile. YLJ acknowledges support from the Agencia Nacional de Investigaci\u00F3n y Desarrollo (ANID) through Basal project FB210003, FONDECYT Regular projects 1241426 and 123044, and Millennium Science Initiative Program NCN2024_112. SLM acknowledges support from the Science and Technology Facilities Council through grant number ST/N021702/1. KK acknowledges full financial support from ANID through FONDECYT Postdoctrorado Project 3200139. ACCL thanks the financial support of the National Agency for research and Development (ANID)/Scholarship Program/DOCTORADO BECAS CHILE/2019-21190049. This publication has been made possible by the participation of hundreds of thousands of volunteers in the galaxy Zoo project on Zooniverse.org. The efforts from each volunteer is acknowledged at https://authors.galaxyzoo.org/authors.html. Funding for the SDSS and SDSS-II has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, the Max Planck Society, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The SDSS Web Site is http://www.sdss.org/. The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are the American Museum of Natural History, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, University of Basel, University of Cambridge, Case Western Reserve University, University of Chicago, Drexel University, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, the Korean Scientist Group, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (LAMOST), Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), New Mexico State University, Ohio State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the United States Naval Observatory, and the University of Washington.

Agradecimiento

The authors thank the referee for their comments that enhanced the quality of manuscript. The authors thank Bianca Poggianti for helpful discussions and classifications for this work. The authors also wish to thank Alessandro Omizzolo, Matilde Mingozzi, Paula Calder\u00F3n-Castillo, Koshy George, and Stephanie Tonnesen for help with expert classifications. JPC acknowledges financial support from ANID through FONDECYT Postdoctorado Project 3210709, as well as support from Comit\u00E9 Mixto ESO-Gobierno de Chile. YLJ acknowledges support from the Agencia Nacional de Investigaci\u00F3n y Desarrollo (ANID) through Basal project FB210003, FONDECYT Regular projects 1241426 and 123044, and Millennium Science Initiative Program NCN2024_112. SLM acknowledges support from the Science and Technology Facilities Council through grant number ST/N021702/1. KK acknowledges full financial support from ANID through FONDECYT Postdoctrorado Project 3200139. ACCL thanks the financial support of the National Agency for research and Development (ANID)/Scholarship Program/DOCTORADO BECAS CHILE/2019-21190049. This publication has been made possible by the participation of hundreds of thousands of volunteers in the galaxy Zoo project on Zooniverse.org. The efforts from each volunteer is acknowledged at https://authors.galaxyzoo.org/authors.html. Funding for the SDSS and SDSS-II has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, the Max Planck Society, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The SDSS Web Site is http://www.sdss.org/. The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are the American Museum of Natural History, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, University of Basel, University of Cambridge, Case Western Reserve University, University of Chicago, Drexel University, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, the Korean Scientist Group, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (LAMOST), Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), New Mexico State University, Ohio State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the United States Naval Observatory, and the University of Washington.