The Milky Way Project Second Data Release: Bubbles and Bow Shocks. (arXiv:1905.12625v1 [astro-ph.GA])

The Milky Way Project Second Data Release: Bubbles and Bow Shocks. (arXiv:1905.12625v1 [astro-ph.GA])
<a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Jayasinghe_T/0/1/0/all/0/1">Tharindu Jayasinghe</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Dixon_D/0/1/0/all/0/1">Don Dixon</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Povich_M/0/1/0/all/0/1">Matthew S. Povich</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Binder_B/0/1/0/all/0/1">Breanna Binder</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Velasco_J/0/1/0/all/0/1">Jose Velasco</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Lepore_D/0/1/0/all/0/1">Denise M. Lepore</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Xu_D/0/1/0/all/0/1">Duo Xu</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Offner_S/0/1/0/all/0/1">Stella Offner</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Kobulnicky_H/0/1/0/all/0/1">Henry A. Kobulnicky</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Anderson_L/0/1/0/all/0/1">Loren D. Anderson</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Kendrew_S/0/1/0/all/0/1">Sarah Kendrew</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Simpson_R/0/1/0/all/0/1">Robert J. Simpson</a>

Citizen science has helped astronomers comb through large data sets to
identify patterns and objects that are not easily found through automated
processes. The Milky Way Project (MWP), a citizen science initiative on the
Zooniverse platform, presents internet users with infrared (IR) images from
Spitzer Space Telescope Galactic plane surveys. MWP volunteers make
classification drawings on the images to identify targeted classes of
astronomical objects. We present the MWP second data release (DR2) and an
updated data reduction pipeline written in Python. We aggregate ${sim}3$
million classifications made by MWP volunteers during the years 2012-2017 to
produce the DR2 catalogue, which contains 2600 IR bubbles and 599 candidate
bow-shock driving stars. The reliability of bubble identifications, as assessed
by comparison to visual identifications by trained experts and scoring by a
machine-learning algorithm, is found to be a significant improvement over DR1.
We assess the reliability of IR bow shocks via comparison to expert
identifications and the colours of candidate bow-shock driving stars in the
2MASS point-source catalogue. We hence identify highly-reliable subsets of 1394
DR2 bubbles and 453 bow-shock driving stars. Uncertainties on object
coordinates and bubble size/shape parameters are included in the DR2 catalog.
Compared with DR1, the DR2 bubbles catalogue provides more accurate shapes and
sizes. The DR2 catalogue identifies 311 new bow shock driving star candidates,
including three associated with the giant HII regions NGC 3603 and RCW 49.

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