Galaxy Zoo: CANDELS Barred Discs and Bar Fractions

Authors

• B. D. Simmons, Oxford Astrophysics, UK
• Thomas Melvin, University of Portsmouth, UK
• Chris Lintott, Oxford Astrophysics, UK
• Karen L. Masters, University of Portsmouth, UK
• Kyle W. Willett, University of Minnesota
• William C. Keel, University of Alabama
• R. J. Smethurst, Oxford Astrophysics, UK
• Edmond Cheung, University of California - Santa Cruz
• Robert C. Nichol, University of Portsmouth, UK
• Kevin Schawinski, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Michael Rutkowski, University of Minnesota
• Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
• Eric F. Bell, University of Michigan
• Kevin R. V. Casteels, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
• Christopher J. Conselice, University of Nottingham, UK
• Omar Almaini, University of Nottingham, UK
• Henry C. Ferguson, Space Telescope Science Institute
• Lucy Fortson, University of Minnesota
• William Hartley, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Dale D. Kocevski, University of KentuckyFollow
• Anton M. Koekemoer, Space Telescope Science Institute
• Daniel H. McIntosh, University of Missouri - Kansas City
• Alice Mortlock, University of Nottingham, UK
• Jeffrey A. Newman, University of Pittsburgh
• Jamie Owensworth, University of Nottingham, UK
• Steven Bamford, University of Nottingham, UK
• Tomas Dahlen, Space Telescope Science Institute
• Sandra M. Faber, University of California - Santa Cruz
• Steven L. Finkelstein, University of Texas - Austin
• Adriano Fontana, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy
• Audrey Galametz, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy
• N. A. Grogin, Space Telescope Science Institute
• Ruth Grützbauch, University of Nottingham, UK
• Yicheng Guo, University of California - Santa Cruz
• Boris Häußler, Oxford Astrophysics, UK
• Kian J. Jek, Galaxy Zoo
• Sugata Kaviraj, University of Hertfordshire, UK
• Ray A. Lucas, Space Telescope Science Institute
• Michael Peth, Johns Hopkins University
• Mara Salvato, Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Germany
• Tommy Wiklind, European Southern Observatory/Joint ALMA Observatory, Chile
• Stijn Wuyts, Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Germany

Abstract

The formation of bars in disc galaxies is a tracer of the dynamical maturity of the population.

The remainder of the abstract is available at:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1817

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-21-2014

Notes/Citation Information

Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 445, no. 4, p. 3466-3474.

This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2014 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1817

Funding Information

BDS gratefully acknowledges support from the Oxford Martin School, Worcester College and Balliol College, Oxford. TM acknowledges funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council ST/J500665/1. KLM acknowledges funding from The Leverhulme Trust as a 2010 Early Career Fellow. KWW and LF acknowledge funding from the UMN Grant-In-Aid programme. RJS acknowledges funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council ST/K502236/1. RCN acknowledges STFC Rolling Grant ST/I001204/1 to ICG for Survey Cosmology and Astrophysics. KS gratefully acknowledges support from Swiss National Science Foundation Grant PP00P2_138979/1.

The development of Galaxy Zoo was supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Galaxy Zoo was supported by The Leverhulme Trust.

This work is based on observations taken by the CANDELS Multi-Cycle Treasury Program with the NASA/ESA HST, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555.

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This work is based on observations taken by the CANDELS Multi-Cycle Treasury Program with the NASA/ESA HST, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555.

This publication has been made possible by the participation of more than 200 000 volunteers in the Galaxy Zoo project. Their contributions are individually acknowledged at http://authors.galaxyzoo.org/.

Repository Citation

Simmons, B. D.; Melvin, Thomas; Lintott, Chris; Masters, Karen L.; Willett, Kyle W.; Keel, William C.; Smethurst, R. J.; Cheung, Edmond; Nichol, Robert C.; Schawinski, Kevin; Rutkowski, Michael; Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.; Bell, Eric F.; Casteels, Kevin R. V.; Conselice, Christopher J.; Almaini, Omar; Ferguson, Henry C.; Fortson, Lucy; Hartley, William; Kocevski, Dale D.; Koekemoer, Anton M.; McIntosh, Daniel H.; Mortlock, Alice; Newman, Jeffrey A.; Owensworth, Jamie; Bamford, Steven; Dahlen, Tomas; Faber, Sandra M.; Finkelstein, Steven L.; Fontana, Adriano; Galametz, Audrey; Grogin, N. A.; Grützbauch, Ruth; Guo, Yicheng; Häußler, Boris; Jek, Kian J.; Kaviraj, Sugata; Lucas, Ray A.; Peth, Michael; Salvato, Mara; Wiklind, Tommy; and Wuyts, Stijn, "Galaxy Zoo: CANDELS Barred Discs and Bar Fractions" (2014). Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications. 283.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/physastron_facpub/283