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arxiv: 2606.29170 · v1 · pith:6DRPHAVSnew · submitted 2026-06-28 · 🌌 astro-ph.GA

Citizen Science Research with the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO)

Ananda Hota , Pratik Dabhade , M. J. Hardcastle , Stephen Serjeant , C. Konar , Hugh Dickinson , Sabyasachi Pal , Sravani Vaddi
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Sagar Sethi Shubhrangshu Ghosh Arundhati Purohit
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The pith

Citizen science can complement and at times surpass AI/ML pipelines in identifying rare radio features for the SKA.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper reviews two decades of citizen science contributions to extragalactic radio astronomy and argues these methods will grow more important with the Square Kilometre Array's data volumes. It presents Radio Galaxy Zoo and RAD@home as working examples where human volunteers identified complex structures through web-based and training-supported collaboration. The authors propose SKA@home in two modes, one purely web-based and one with national training programmes, to create hybrid human-machine systems. They claim this approach handles big-data challenges by letting people spot rare or unexpected features that automation may overlook. The proposal aligns with existing SKA outreach plans and international statements on public participation in science.

Core claim

The paper establishes that citizen science research, through platforms like Radio Galaxy Zoo and RAD@home, has produced discoveries of episodic wide-angle-tailed radio galaxies, jet-galaxy interactions, collimated synchrotron threads, twin-ring odd radio circles, and large-scale shocks. It proposes SKA@home to extend these methods to SKA data, arguing that citizen science can complement and at times surpass automated AI/ML pipelines, particularly in identifying rare, intricate, or unexpected features, while also building public engagement.

What carries the argument

SKA@home, the proposed citizen science framework with a purely web-based mode and a collaboratory mode using national training programmes, extending Radio Galaxy Zoo and RAD@home to enable hybrid human-machine analysis of SKA data.

If this is right

  • CSR will become increasingly relevant across radio astronomy in the SKA era.
  • Hybrid human-machine frameworks will be suited to big-data challenges.
  • Early discovery potential of SKA data will be enhanced.
  • A deeper connection with society at large will be initiated.
  • SKA construction and outreach plans will support public participation in science.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Citizen science models developed for SKA could be adapted for other large astronomical surveys facing similar data volumes.
  • Volunteer training in the collaboratory mode might generate new methods for teaching complex pattern recognition in science.
  • Rare features first spotted by citizens could supply targeted examples to refine AI training datasets.
  • Global volunteer access to SKA data would require practical solutions for data distribution and quality control.

Load-bearing premise

Citizen science platforms can be effectively scaled and integrated with SKA data volumes through the proposed SKA@home modes.

What would settle it

A study of SKA pilot data showing that all rare, intricate, or unexpected features identified by citizen scientists are also detected by AI/ML pipelines without any human assistance.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.29170 by Ananda Hota, Arundhati Purohit, C. Konar, Hugh Dickinson, M. J. Hardcastle, Pratik Dabhade, Sabyasachi Pal, Sagar Sethi, Shubhrangshu Ghosh, Sravani Vaddi, Stephen Serjeant.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Schematic for the pyramidal structure of the traditional Outreach, Education and Research system based on the number of people involved (left panel). Schematic Venn diagram of modern citizen science, which has significant overlap with all Outreach, Education and Research and large public involvement (middle panel). The image shows how the number of papers mentioning "citizen science" in their abstracts has… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Left panel: Image of the episodic wide-angle tailed radio galaxy (RGZ J082312.9+033301) discovered by the RGZ project from Banfield et al. (2016). Right Panel: A HyMoRS from the same RGZ project displaying FR-I nature on the southern and clear edge-brightened FR-II nature on the northern side from Kapińska et al. (2017). Radio Galaxy Zoo (RGZ) is a CSR project launched in 2013 on the Zooniverse platform to… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Three examples of RAD@home CSR discoveries. Left Panel: A unique case of jet-galaxy interaction in RAD12 from (Hota et al., 2022). Middle Panel: RAD J131346.9+500320, the farthest and most powerful Odd Radio Circle discovered by the RAD@home collaboratory from Hota et al. (2025). Notice the twin intersecting rings embedded inside the extended radio emission. Right panel: A recently discovered unique Bow-an… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Left Panel: Comparison of visual classification by RGZ: LOFAR citizen scientists and expert human inspection with source classification by automated algorithms from Hardcastle et al. (2023). Visual inspection dominates the source identifications for the large, complex sources. Middle panel: As an example, episodic GRG ‘Speca’ from NVSS (cyan), TGSS (magenta) and FIRST (yellow) are plotted in contours on DS… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Over the past two decades, internet-enabled citizen science research (CSR) has contributed to significant discoveries while involving millions of people in the research process. Our review highlights CSR in extragalactic radio astronomy and emphasises that such approaches will become increasingly relevant across radio astronomy in the era of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). As astronomical data volumes grow, CSR is converging with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), creating hybrid human-machine frameworks suited to big-data challenges. Two CSR platforms, Radio Galaxy Zoo and RAD@home, demonstrate success: the former excels in large-scale, web-based catalogue creation, while the latter combines structured training with collaborative discovery. Following this, we propose CSR with the SKA, namely SKA@home, with two modes: one purely web-based and the other in collaboratory mode with national training programmes. We argue that CSR can complement, and at times surpass, automated AI/ML pipelines, particularly in identifying rare, intricate, or unexpected features. Illustrative CSR discoveries include an episodic wide-angle-tailed radio galaxy, a jet-galaxy interaction, a collimated synchrotron thread, a twin-ring odd radio circle, and a large-scale shock ahead of a cluster-infalling galaxy. Consistent with the IAU's recognition of CSR as a driver of Astronomy for Development and the United Nations' affirmation of participation in science as a universal human right, both the SKA construction proposal and outreach strategies show commitment to enabling CSR with SKA. The proposed SKA@home would not only enhance the early discovery potential of SKA data but also initiate a deeper and more meaningful connection with society at large.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript is a review of citizen science research (CSR) in extragalactic radio astronomy, focusing on the successes of Radio Galaxy Zoo and RAD@home. It proposes the SKA@home initiative in two modes (web-based and collaboratory with national training) to integrate CSR with Square Kilometre Array (SKA) data. The central argument is that CSR can complement and at times surpass AI/ML pipelines for identifying rare, intricate, or unexpected features, supported by five illustrative discoveries, while aligning with IAU and UN principles on public participation in science.

Significance. If the conceptual proposal for hybrid human-machine frameworks is realized, the work could help shape data-analysis strategies for the SKA era by highlighting the complementary role of citizen scientists in big-data astronomy, potentially accelerating discovery of rare objects and advancing Astronomy for Development goals.

major comments (2)
  1. [Illustrative CSR discoveries section] The section presenting illustrative CSR discoveries (episodic wide-angle-tailed radio galaxy, jet-galaxy interaction, collimated synchrotron thread, twin-ring odd radio circle, and large-scale shock): these five examples are offered in support of the claim that CSR can 'at times surpass' automated AI/ML pipelines, yet the text provides no systematic comparison, false-negative rates, or metrics showing that the features were missed by existing ML methods; this evidence gap is load-bearing for the central claim in the abstract and final paragraphs.
  2. [SKA@home proposal] The SKA@home proposal (final section): the two modes are described at a high level without any discussion of data-volume scaling, volunteer training throughput, or concrete integration protocols with AI/ML pipelines, leaving the feasibility of the advocated hybrid frameworks unaddressed despite being central to the paper's forward-looking argument.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Title and abstract] The title uses SKAO while the body text consistently uses SKA; a single consistent abbreviation would improve readability.
  2. [Throughout] The manuscript would benefit from explicit cross-references between the cited past discoveries and the proposed SKA@home modes to clarify how lessons from Radio Galaxy Zoo and RAD@home translate to the new framework.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive and detailed report. The comments identify important areas where the manuscript's central claims and forward-looking proposal can be strengthened with greater precision and context. We respond to each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Illustrative CSR discoveries section] The section presenting illustrative CSR discoveries (episodic wide-angle-tailed radio galaxy, jet-galaxy interaction, collimated synchrotron thread, twin-ring odd radio circle, and large-scale shock): these five examples are offered in support of the claim that CSR can 'at times surpass' automated AI/ML pipelines, yet the text provides no systematic comparison, false-negative rates, or metrics showing that the features were missed by existing ML methods; this evidence gap is load-bearing for the central claim in the abstract and final paragraphs.

    Authors: We accept the validity of this observation. The five cases are presented as concrete illustrations of complex or rare morphological features identified through citizen science that were not previously highlighted in automated catalogues or surveys. We do not possess, and the cited literature does not provide, quantitative false-negative rates or head-to-head benchmarks for these specific objects. In the revised manuscript we will (i) rephrase the relevant sentences in the abstract, the discoveries section, and the conclusions to stress complementarity rather than outright surpassing, (ii) add explicit language acknowledging the absence of systematic comparative metrics, and (iii) note that rigorous benchmarking of this kind remains an open research question. These changes constitute a partial revision. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [SKA@home proposal] The SKA@home proposal (final section): the two modes are described at a high level without any discussion of data-volume scaling, volunteer training throughput, or concrete integration protocols with AI/ML pipelines, leaving the feasibility of the advocated hybrid frameworks unaddressed despite being central to the paper's forward-looking argument.

    Authors: We agree that the current description is conceptual and would benefit from additional grounding. In revision we will expand the SKA@home section with (i) order-of-magnitude estimates of data volume per SKA field and how web-based platforms such as Zooniverse have scaled to similar volumes in existing projects, (ii) reference to training throughput achieved by RAD@home-style collaboratories, and (iii) a high-level outline of integration protocols (e.g., AI pre-filtering followed by citizen validation of low-confidence or anomalous sources). Detailed numerical simulations of volunteer capacity or end-to-end pipeline specifications lie beyond the scope of this review and will be flagged as topics for dedicated follow-up studies. This will be a partial revision. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity identified

full rationale

The manuscript is a review and proposal paper with no equations, derivations, quantitative predictions, or fitted parameters. Its central qualitative claim—that CSR can complement or surpass AI/ML for rare features—is supported by citations to independent prior discoveries from Radio Galaxy Zoo and RAD@home rather than any self-referential reduction or self-citation chain. The SKA@home proposal is presented as a forward suggestion without internal validation loops. No load-bearing step reduces to the paper's own inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central proposal rests on the domain assumption that citizen science has been effective in past radio astronomy projects and will remain relevant for SKA-scale data; no free parameters or invented scientific entities are introduced.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Citizen science approaches have contributed to significant discoveries in extragalactic radio astronomy over the past two decades.
    Invoked in the opening of the abstract as background for the proposal.

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