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GALAXY CRUISE: Accessible Big Data of the Subaru Telescope for Citizen Astronomers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2021

Kumiko Usuda-Sato Open the ORCID record for Kumiko Usuda-Sato [Opens in a new window] ,
Masayuki Tanaka ,
Michitaro Koike ,
Junko Shibata ,
Seiichiro Naito  and
Hitoshi Yamaoka
Kumiko Usuda-Sato
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, JAPAN email: kumiko.usuda@nao.ac.jp
Masayuki Tanaka
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, JAPAN email: kumiko.usuda@nao.ac.jp
Michitaro Koike
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, JAPAN email: kumiko.usuda@nao.ac.jp
Junko Shibata
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, JAPAN email: kumiko.usuda@nao.ac.jp
Seiichiro Naito
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, JAPAN email: kumiko.usuda@nao.ac.jp
Hitoshi Yamaoka
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, JAPAN email: kumiko.usuda@nao.ac.jp
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Abstract

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The Universe is full of galaxies of various shapes; some galaxies have spiral arms and others don’t. Why do galaxies show such diversity? How were galaxies formed and evolved? Galaxies are thought to grow by interacting and merging with other galaxies, and the galaxy mergers may be the key process creating the variety. GALAXY CRUISE is the first citizen science project conducted by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) to unlock galaxies’ secrets using the big observational data. We made the superior quality big data taken by the Subaru Telescope accessible to the public and invited them to participate in data classification. Here we report how we designed the website and its first-year progress.

Keywords

Citizen ScienceBig DataOnline Resources
Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 15 , Symposium S367: Education and Heritage in the Era of Big Data in Astronomy , December 2019 , pp. 218 - 222
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of International Astronomical Union

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Usuda-Sato, K., Agata, H., Fujiwara, H., Horiuchi, T., Koike, M., Miyazaki, S., Naito, S., Tanaka, M., Yaji, K., & Yamaoka, H. 2018b, in: Canas, L. et al. (eds.), Proc. Communicating Astronomy with the Public Conference 2018 (NAOJ), p. 68 Google Scholar