Research Article

Reanalysis of the Spin Direction Distribution of Galaxy Zoo SDSS Spiral Galaxies

Table 1

The distribution of galaxies spinning clockwise and counterclockwise in the entire dataset. The values are the one-tailed binomial distribution probabilities when assuming a 0.5 probability of a galaxy to spin clockwise or counterclockwise.

Spiral galaxy selection

None135,166135,8971.0050.079
None (mirrored)137,641133,6670.972
GZ1 40%84,81285,0171.0020.308
GZ1 40% (mirrored)85,77284,2730.9820.0001
GZ1 50%76,33076,4611.0020.367
GZ1 50% (mirrored)75,74777,1620.9980.0001
GZ1 80%44,13244,7331.0140.022
GZ1 80% (mirrored)43,87744,9830.9860.0001
GZ1 95%16,86117,3051.0260.008
GZ1 95% (mirrored)16,85017,3390.9720.004
Computer69,04369,8971.0120.01
Computer (mirrored)70,74369,1800.9771.5