Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

We present an on-going citizen science project, GALAXY CRUISE. GALAXY CRUISE aims to identify interacting galaxies based on imaging data taken with the Subaru Telescope, and it differs from previous citizen science projects in a few key aspects; unprecedented image quality, efficient tutorial based on public experiments, gamified user interface, and two-way communications. We believe that even elementary school students will find GALAXY CRUISE interesting. More than 1.5 million classifications have been collected in 1.5 years after the launch of the project, and interesting results are being unveiled and are shared with the participants. We also discuss future prospects of GALAXY CRUISE, including machine-learning.

About Masayuki Tanaka

Masayuki Tanaka is an associate professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. He has studied galaxies near and far to understand how galaxies form and evolve using the largest telescopes in the world for more than 15 years. He is one of the leading researchers of an on-going massive imaging survey at Subaru, and his science project on interacting galaxies evolved to GALAXY CRUISE. He is a 'captain' of GALAXY CRUISE and enjoys cruising the vast universe with the crew members from all over the world.

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