New results on the exotic galaxy `Speca' and discovering many more Specas with RAD@home network
Ananda Hota (1, 2), Judith H. Croston (3), Youichi Ohyama (4), C. S., Stalin (5), Martin J. Hardcastle (6), Chiranjib Konar (4), R.P. Aravind (2),, Sheena M. Agarwal (2), Sai Arun Dharmik Bhoga (2), Pratik A. Dabhade (2),, Amit A. Kamble (2), Pradeepta K. Mohanty (2)

TL;DR
This paper reports on the RAD@home citizen-science project in India that has discovered new radio galaxies, including Speca-like galaxies, using free archival data, demonstrating a cost-effective model for resource-limited research.
Contribution
It introduces the RAD@home network, a novel citizen-science platform that enables large-scale astronomical discoveries without significant funding or infrastructure.
Findings
Discovered 10 candidate episodic radio galaxies.
Identified Speca-like massive spiral-host radio galaxies.
Early follow-up suggests Speca is a massive, star-forming disk galaxy in a cluster.
Abstract
We present the first report on an innovative new project named "RAD@home", a citizen-science research collaboratory built on free web-services like Facebook, Google, Skype, NASA Skyview, NED, TGSS etc.. This is the first of its kind in India, a zero-funded, zero-infrastructure, human-resource network to educate and directly involve in research, hundreds of science-educated under-graduate population of India, irrespective of their official employment and home-location with in the country. Professional international collaborators are involved in follow up observation and publication of the objects discovered by the collaboratory. We present here ten newly found candidate episodic radio galaxies, already proposed to GMRT, and ten more interesting cases which includes, bent-lobe radio galaxies located in new Mpc-scale filaments, likely tracing cosmological cluster accretion from the cosmic…
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TopicsComputational Physics and Python Applications · Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation · Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications
