New Bar Paper Submitted to MNRAS
Updated: 2011-11-07 08:00:33
I’m happy to report that this week we submitted a new paper (to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society) using your bar classifications from Galaxy Zoo 2. The paper appears on astroph this morning (paper link here). The title of the paper is shown below. Ramin Skibba (who wrote one of the early [...]
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