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Radio Galaxy Zoo

(RGZ)
(crowd-sourced classification of radio galaxies)

Radio Galaxy Zoo (RGZ) was one of the follow-ons to Galaxy Zoo, specifically a Zooniverse project to classify (by crowd-sourcing) the radio morphology of radio galaxies, using both infrared and radio images. From this, evidence was gathered regarding whether a classified galaxy shows radio evidence of a supermassive black hole (SMBH), i.e., signs of AGN activity. In 2025, Radio Galaxy Zoo data release 1, a catalog of RGZ classifications was published. Though the crowd-source RGZ classification is currently in "retired" status, projects continue using the RGZ classifications. Results from a number of radio surveys underwent the RGZ crowd-sourced classification. The resulting classifications are of value in their own right, but also have provided fodder for testing and generating automated methods of radio galaxy classification.


(survey,galaxies,radio,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Galaxy_Zoo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Zoo#Radio_Galaxy_Zoo
http://radio.galaxyzoo.org/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015MNRAS.453.2326B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ASPC..495...81P/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015fers.confE...8W/abstract
https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02645
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016MNRAS.460.2376B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017AJ....154..253K/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017MNRAS.472..636C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018MNRAS.476..246L/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018MNRAS.478.5547A/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019PASP..131j8011R/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019PASP..131j8009G/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AJ....157..126G/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.482.1211W/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020MNRAS.499...68T/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021Univ....7..211W/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.510.4504T/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.514.2599S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023PASA...40...51C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024RASTI...3...19S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRAS.536.3488W/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRAS.544.4062B/abstract
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16138
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19787
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11490
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