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Help us determine if we've correctly selected all the individual arms of spiral galaxies traced by Spiral Graph volunteers. This will allow us to better measure how tightly wound the arm structure is and potentially find rare intermediate mass black holes!
Spiral Graph: Cluster BusterAbout Spiral Graph: Cluster Buster
The goal of this project is to untangle tracings of spiral galaxy arms produced by Spiral Graph volunteers, a previous project led by this research team on the Zooniverse platform. Our algorithm clusters, or groups, tracings together to indicate individual arms, but it's not always correct. We need you to tell us if the algorithm has been successful or not so we can improve its accuracy.
The research team is affiliated with the Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and the Department of Computing Sciences at Coastal Carolina University.
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