New results on the exotic galaxy `Speca' and discovering many more
  Specas with RAD@home network
  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 web. Two new Speca-like
rare spiral-host large radio galaxies have also been been reported here. Early
analyses from our follow up observations with the Subaru and XMM-Newton
telescopes have revealed that Speca is likely a new entry to the cluster and is
a fast rotating, extremely massive, star forming disk galaxy. Speca-like
massive galaxies with giant radio lobes, are possibly remnants of luminous
quasars in the early Universe or of first supermassive black holes with in
first masssve galaxies. As discoveries of Speca-like galaxies did not require
new data from big telescopes, but free archival radio-optical data, these early
results demonstrate the discovery potential of RAD@home and how it can help
resource-rich professionals, as well as demonstrate a model of academic-growth
for resource-poor people in the underdeveloped regions via Internet.
