DATA MINING THE GALAXY ZOO MERGERS
DATA MINING THE GALAXY ZOO MERGERS

STEVEN BAEHR*, ARUN VEDACHALAM*, KIRK BORNE*, AND DANIEL SPONSELLER*

Abstract. Collisions between pairs of galaxies usually end in the coalescence (merger) of the two
galaxies. Collisions and mergers are rare phenomena, yet they may signal the ultimate fate of
most galaxies, …