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We present a method for automated classification of galaxies with low signal-to-noise (S/N) spectra typical of redshift surveys. We develop spectral simulations based on the parameters for the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, and with these…

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In this paper, the fourth version the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-4), Data Release 16 dataset was used to classify the SDSS dataset into galaxies, stars, and quasars using machine learning and deep learning architectures. We efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Sabeesh Ethiraj , Bharath Kumar Bolla

In the context of radio galaxy classification, most state-of-the-art neural network algorithms have been focused on single survey data. The question of whether these trained algorithms have cross-survey identification ability or can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Hongming Tang , Anna M. M. Scaife , J. P. Leahy

We analyse the relationships between galaxy morphology, colour, environment and stellar mass using data for over 100,000 objects from Galaxy Zoo, the largest sample of visually classified morphologies yet compiled. We conclusively show that…

By applying our previously developed two-step scheme for galaxy morphology classification, we present a catalog of galaxy morphology for H-band selected massive galaxies in the COSMOS-DASH field, which includes 17292 galaxies with stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-07 Yao Dai , Jun Xu , Jie Song , Guanwen Fang , Chichun Zhou , Shuo Ba , Yizhou Gu , Zesen Lin , Xu Kong

We present a method for automatic detection and classification of galaxies which includes a novel data-augmentation procedure to make trained models more robust against the data taken from different instruments and contrast-stretching…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-07 Roberto E. González , Roberto P. Muñoz , Cristian A. Hernández

The cosmological redshift of a galaxy's light is inferable from its observable properties in images. Because imaging is much easier to acquire than spectroscopic observations that would allow the identification of distinct line features,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Luca Tortorelli , Daniel Grün

Context: The huge and still rapidly growing amount of galaxies in modern sky surveys raises the need of an automated and objective classification method. Unsupervised learning algorithms are of particular interest, since they discover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Rene Andrae , Peter Melchior , Matthias Bartelmann

Understanding how galaxies trace the underlying matter density field is essential for characterizing the influence of the large-scale structure on galaxy formation, being therefore a key ingredient in observational cosmology. This…

Classification of young stellar objects (YSOs) into different evolutionary stages helps us to understand the formation process of new stars and planetary systems. Such classification has traditionally been based on spectral energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 Oskari Miettinen

Classification will be an important first step for upcoming surveys that will detect billions of new sources such as LSST and Euclid, as well as DESI, 4MOST and MOONS. The application of traditional methods of model fitting and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 Crispin Logan , Sotiria Fotopoulou

We present a classification of galaxies in the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) 3$\pi$ survey based on their recent star formation history and morphology. Specifically, we train and test two Random Forest (RF) classifiers using photometric features…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 A. Baldeschi , A. Miller , M. Stroh , R. Margutti , D. L. Coppejans

We measure the influence of image augmentations and training dataset size when training a deep neural network to classify galaxy morphology. Data augmentation is an integral step when training machine learning models and often astronomers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Leon H. Butterworth , Ashley Spindler

Semi-analytic models are a widely used approach to simulate galaxy properties within a cosmological framework, relying on simplified yet physically motivated prescriptions. They have also proven to be an efficient alternative for generating…

As very large studies of complex neuroimaging phenotypes become more common, human quality assessment of MRI-derived data remains one of the last major bottlenecks. Few attempts have so far been made to address this issue with machine…

The measurement of galaxy morphological parameters from astronomical images features in a wide range of modern analyses, including galaxy evolution and cosmological weak lensing studies. The precision and accuracy of morphological parameter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Samuel Kahn , Ryan Hausen , Hubert Bretonnière , Nicole Drakos , Brant Robertson

We present detailed morphology measurements for 8.67 million galaxies in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (DECaLS, MzLS, and BASS, plus DES). These are automated measurements made by deep learning models trained on Galaxy Zoo volunteer…

We present a convolutional neural network to classify distinct cosmological scenarios based on the statistically similar weak-lensing maps they generate. Modified gravity (MG) models that include massive neutrinos can mimic the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Austin Peel , Florian Lalande , Jean-Luc Starck , Valeria Pettorino , Julian Merten , Carlo Giocoli , Massimo Meneghetti , Marco Baldi

The increasingly large amount of cosmological data coming from ground-based and space-borne telescopes requires highly efficient and fast enough data analysis techniques to maximise the scientific exploitation. In this work, we explore the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Niccolò Veronesi , Federico Marulli , Alfonso Veropalumbo , Lauro Moscardini

Modern astronomy relies on massive databases collected by robotic telescopes and digital sky surveys, acquiring data in a much faster pace than what manual analysis can support. Among other data, these sky surveys collect information about…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-29 Evan Kuminski , Lior Shamir