The Milky Way Project First Data Release: a bubblier Galactic disc
By R. Simpson, M. Povich, S. Kendrew, Chris J. Lintott, E. Bressert, K. Arvidsson, C. Cyganowski, S. Maddison, Kevin Schawinski, R. Sherman and 2 more. 2012
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We present a new catalogue of 5106 infrared bubbles created through visual classification via the online citizen science website ‘The Milky Way Project’. Bubbles in the new catalogue have been independently measured by at least five individuals, producing consensus parameters for their position, radius, thickness, eccentricity and position angle. Citizen scientists – volunteers recruited online and taking part in this research – have independently rediscovered the locations of at least 86 per cent of three widely used catalogues of bubbles and H ii regions whilst finding an order of magnitude more objects. 29 per cent of the Milky Way Project catalogue bubbles lie on the rim of a larger bubble, or have smaller bubbles located within them, opening up the possibility of better statistical studies of triggered star formation. Also outlined is the creation of a ‘heat map’ of star formation activity in the Galactic plane. This online resource provides a crowd-sourced map of bubbles and arcs in the Milky Way, and will enable better statistical analysis of Galactic star formation sites.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Spectroscopy
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In Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Kevin Schawinski
- Robert Nichol
- Chris J. Lintott
- Kyle W. Willett
- Steven Bamford
- R. Skibba
- S. Kaviraj
- M. Jordan Raddick
In Spectroscopy
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- Galaxy Zoo 2: detailed morphological classifications for 304,122 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2013, background): “Since then, this method has been expanded beyond galaxy morphologies to include supernova identification (Smith et al. 2011), exoplanet discovery (Fischer et al. 2012; Schwamb et al. 2012) and a census of bubbles associated with star formation in the Milky Way (Simpson et al. 2012; Kendrew et al. 20”
- THE WISE CATALOG OF GALACTIC H ii REGIONS (2013, background): “Star formation is deficient in the Galactic center relative to the amount of molecular material available (Longmore et al. 2013, see also Beuther et al. (2012); Simpson et al. (2012)).”
- The second data release of the INT Photometric Hα Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (IPHAS DR2) (2014, background): “…which have only recently started to become revealed by efforts to catalogue the wealth of ‘bubbles’ detected at mid-infrared wavelengths (Churchwell et al. 2006; Simpson et al. 2012), and by efforts to catalogue previously unknown clusters seen in the near-infrared (e.g. Bica et al. 2003).”