{"id":1885,"date":"2012-05-01T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2016-06-20T15:17:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T15:17:20","slug":"a-zoo-of-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/a-zoo-of-galaxies\/","title":{"rendered":"A Zoo of Galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"style21\" align=\"center\"><span class=\"style22\">Lauren Nicholson with Idit Zehavi<\/span><span class=\"style22\">,<\/span> <span class=\"style22\">Dept. of Astronomy<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><span class=\"style21\"><span class=\"style20\"><em><u>A Zoo of Galaxies<\/u><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p align=\"center\"><span class=\"style21\"><a href=\"\/physics-senior-projects\/files\/2012\/05\/Nicholson_Zehavi.pdf\">Poster <\/a><a href=\"\/physics-senior-projects\/files\/2012\/05\/Nicholson_Zehavi-1.pdf\">Paper<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I will be investigating and quantifying the morphological properties of a group of strongly clustered galaxies found in the Galaxy Zoo project and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey&#8217;s Data Release 7. Galaxy Zoo is an interactive project that utilizes the public to classify the millions of galaxies found in the SDSS, which I can use to pair the observations of the galaxies with the data that is normally considered in order to learn more about these faint red smudges. I will also be working with the Shafran Planetarium at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, designing and encoding a planetarium show using the Galaxy Zoo project and results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Nicholson with Idit Zehavi, Dept. of Astronomy<em>A Zoo of Galaxies<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/physics-senior-projects\/files\/2012\/05\/Nicholson_Zehavi.pdf\">Poster <\/a><a href=\"\/physics-senior-projects\/files\/2012\/05\/Nicholson_Zehavi-1.pdf\">Paper<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I will be investigating and quantifying the morphological properties of a group of strongly clustered galaxies found in the Galaxy Zoo project and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey&#8217;s Data Release 7. Galaxy Zoo is an interactive project that utilizes the public to classify the millions of galaxies found in the SDSS, which I can use to pair the observations of the galaxies with the data that is normally considered in order to learn more about these faint red smudges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/a-zoo-of-galaxies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Zoo of Galaxies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[46,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2836,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}