Radio galaxy zoo EMU: towards a semantic radio galaxy morphology taxonomy

Micah Bowles; Hongming Tang; Eleni Vardoulaki; Emma L. Alexander; Yan Luo; Lawrence Rudnick; Mike Walmsley; Fiona Porter; Anna M.~M. Scaife; Inigo Val Slijepcevic; Elizabeth A.~K. Adams; Alexander Drabent; Thomas Dugdale; Gülay Gürkan; Andrew M. Hopkins; Eric F. Jimenez-Andrade; Denis A. Leahy; Ray P. Norris; Syed Faisal ur Rahman; Xichang Ouyang; Gary Segal; Stanislav S. Shabala; O. Ivy Wong

doi:10.1093/mnras/stad1021

Radio galaxy zoo EMU: towards a semantic radio galaxy morphology taxonomy

Micah Bowles
, Hongming Tang
, Eleni Vardoulaki
, Emma L. Alexander
, Yan Luo
, Lawrence Rudnick
, Mike Walmsley
, Fiona Porter
, Anna M.~M. Scaife
, Inigo Val Slijepcevic
, Elizabeth A.~K. Adams
, Alexander Drabent
, Thomas Dugdale
, Gülay Gürkan
, Andrew M. Hopkins
, Eric F. Jimenez-Andrade
, Denis A. Leahy
, Ray P. Norris
, Syed Faisal ur Rahman
, Xichang Ouyang

Gary Segal, Stanislav S. Shabala, O. Ivy Wong

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Abstract

We present a novel natural language processing (NLP) approach to deriving plain English descriptors for science cases otherwise restricted by obfuscating technical terminology. We address the limitations of common radio galaxy morphology classifications by applying this approach. We experimentally derive a set of semantic tags for the Radio Galaxy Zoo EMU (Evolutionary Map of the Universe) project and the wider astronomical community. We collect 8486 plain English annotations of radio galaxy morphology, from which we derive a taxonomy of tags. The tags are plain English. The result is an extensible framework, which is more flexible, more easily communicated, and more sensitive to rare feature combinations, which are indescribable using the current framework of radio astronomy classifications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2584-2600
Number of pages	17
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)
Volume	522
Issue number	2
Early online date	11 Apr 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1021
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2023

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standards
methods: statistical
catalogues
galaxies: statistics
radio continuum: galaxies
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
galaxies
statistics-radio continuum
statistical-catalogues-galaxies
standards-methods

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Bowles, M., Tang, H., Vardoulaki, E., Alexander, E. L., Luo, Y., Rudnick, L., Walmsley, M., Porter, F., Scaife, A. M. M., Slijepcevic, I. V., Adams, E. A. K., Drabent, A., Dugdale, T., Gürkan, G., Hopkins, A. M., Jimenez-Andrade, E. F., Leahy, D. A., Norris, R. P., Rahman, S. F. U., ... Wong, O. I. (2023). Radio galaxy zoo EMU: towards a semantic radio galaxy morphology taxonomy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), 522(2), 2584-2600. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1021

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