It’s sometimes difficult to know which papers will excite other scientists and get them to follow-up what you’ve done. Our peas paper already has seven references to it, so I wasn’t entirely surprised to find a whole paper discussing the peas on astro-ph today. Astro-ph is required reading for all astrophysicists and contains pre-prints of [...]
Our pea hunting observing run is over and, as you will have gathered from previous posts, it has gone very well. We travelled back from La Silla to Santiago last night, for another brief stay at the ESO Guesthouse. Now I’m about to get on the plane back to the UK.
We are thrilled with how [...]
The Chilean Pea hunt continues…
You may have noticed the Galaxy Zoo blog was down over the weekend. Well, it wasn’t the only one to be experiencing technical difficulties. On Sunday night we unfortunately lost four hours of observing time to technical gremlins. First we tried to use a new filter, which resulted [...]
Well, at the start of the night we were a bit nervous that none of our objects would turn out to be Peas. Fortunately, by the end of the night our quick looks at the data indicate that four of the seven i-Pea candidates that we managed to observe are emission line objects at [...]
The continuing adventures of the Pea hunting trip to Chile…
We’ve spent the afternoon finalising our target selection, preparing our observing strategy, and taking calibrations. The sun has now set and we’re already pointing in the right direction for our first target. In a few minutes time we will start our observations. We begin [...]
The continuing adventures of the Pea hunting trip to Chile…
An hour’s flight from Santiago to La Serena, followed by a 2 hour drive, and we arrived at La Silla in time for a tasty lunch (notable lack of peas, though). We then had a meeting with our support astronomer to check our plans for [...]
Greetings from the ESO Guest House, in Santiago de Chile! As I described in a blog post) a while ago, I am here on a mission to hunt for more distant counterparts to the ‘Peas’) which were first identified by Galaxy Zoo participants.
This is the first Galaxy Zoo initiated observing project to use an [...]
Our paper ‘Green Peas in Galaxy Zoo hits the public pre-print archive astro-ph today. If you’d like to see the paper in full detail you can download it here
(click on PDF to get the full paper).
We’ve also summarized the science results and much of the process of writing the paper in a separate blog post. Its now [...]