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Future photometric supernova surveys will produce vastly more candidates than can be followed up spectroscopically, highlighting the need for effective classification methods based on lightcurves alone. Here we introduce boosting and kernel…

We discuss the construction of a photometric redshift catalogue of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), emphasizing the principal steps necessary for constructing such a catalogue -- (i) photometrically…

Accurate estimation of photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) is crucial in studies of both galaxy evolution and cosmology using current and future large sky surveys. In this study, we employ Random Forest (RF), a machine learning algorithm, to…

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We introduce a framework for the enhanced estimation of photometric redshifts using Self-Organising Maps (SOMs). Our method projects galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) onto a two-dimensional map, identifying regions that are…

Large-scale surveys make huge amounts of photometric data available. Because of the sheer amount of objects, spectral data cannot be obtained for all of them. Therefore it is important to devise techniques for reliably estimating physical…

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Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a robust machine learning algorithm with broad applications in classification, regression, and outlier detection. SVM requires tuning the regularization parameter (RP) which controls the model capacity and…

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Support vector machine (SVM) is a powerful classification method that has achieved great success in many fields. Since its performance can be seriously impaired by redundant covariates, model selection techniques are widely used for SVM…

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This work presents an approach for automating the discretization and approximation procedures in constructing digital representations of composites from Micro-CT images featuring intricate microstructures. The proposed method is guided by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Yanran Wang , Jonghyuk Baek , Yichun Tang , Jing Du , Mike Hillman , J. S. Chen

Improving distance measurements in large imaging surveys is a major challenge to better reveal the distribution of galaxies on a large scale and to link galaxy properties with their environments. Photometric redshifts can be efficiently…

Photometric redshift estimation is a key requirement for modern large-area surveys, where spectroscopic measurements are observationally prohibitive. Seyfert II galaxies provide a particularly challenging test case due to the combined…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-23 Uzay Aydin

We use N-body/photometric galaxy simulations to examine the impact of sample variance of spectroscopic redshift samples on the accuracy of photometric redshift (photo-z) determination and calibration of photo-z errors. We estimate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-02 Carlos E. Cunha , Dragan Huterer , Michael T. Busha , Risa H. Wechsler

Context: In astronomy, new approaches to process and analyze the exponentially increasing amount of data are inevitable. While classical approaches (e.g. template fitting) are fine for objects of well-known classes, alternative techniques…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-08 S. D. Kügler , K. Polsterer , M. Hoecker

The need to analyze the available large synoptic multi-band surveys drives the development of new data-analysis methods. Photometric redshift estimation is one field of application where such new methods improved the results, substantially.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Antonio D'Isanto , Kai Lars Polsterer

We apply the spectroscopy-based stellar-color regression (SCR) method to perform an accurate photometric re-calibration of the second data release from the SkyMapper Southern Survey (SMSS DR2). From comparison with a sample of over 200,000…

We investigate the performance of some common machine learning techniques in identifying BHB stars from photometric data. To train the machine learning algorithms, we use previously published spectroscopic identifications of BHB stars from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Kester W. Smith , Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones , Rainer J. Klement , Xiang-Xiang Xue

Machine learning techniques, specifically the k-nearest neighbour algorithm applied to optical band colours, have had some success in predicting photometric redshifts of quasi-stellar objects (QSOs): Although the mean of differences between…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 S. J. Curran

This work investigates symbolic regression (SR) as an interpretable alternative to black-box machine learning for the classification of stars, galaxies, and quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 17 (SDSS DR17). We conduct a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Rachit Deshpande , Shantanu Desai

Photometric redshifts of galaxies obtained by multi-wavelength data are widely used in photometric surveys because of its high efficiency. Although various methods have been developed, template fitting is still adopted as one of the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Yicheng Li , Liping Fu , Zhu Chen , Zhijian Luo , Wei Du , Yan Gong , Xianmin Meng , Junhao Lu , Zhirui Tang , Pengfei Chen , Shaohua Zhang , Chenggang Shu , Xingchen Zhou , Zuhui Fan

We propose a new method to estimate the photometric redshift of galaxies by using the full galaxy image in each measured band. This method draws from the latest techniques and advances in machine learning, in particular Deep Neural…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-16 Ben Hoyle

A novel kernel-based support vector machine (SVM) for graph classification is proposed. The SVM feature space mapping consists of a sequence of graph convolutional layers, which generates a vector space representation for each vertex,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Padraig Corcoran