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We provide classifications for all 143 million non-repeat photometric objects in the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using decision trees trained on 477,068 objects with SDSS spectroscopic data. We demonstrate that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicholas M. Ball , Robert J. Brunner , Adam D. Myers , David Tcheng

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will produce unprecedentedly deep and wide photometric catalogs, enabling transformative studies of faint stellar systems such as the research of ultra-faint dwarf…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-06 M. Gatto , V. Ripepi , M. Bellazzini , C. Tortora , M. Dall'Ora

We present an application of a particular machine-learning method (Boosted Decision Trees, BDTs using AdaBoost) to separate stars and galaxies in photometric images using their catalog characteristics. BDTs are a well established machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-28 Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe , Penélope Etayo-Sotos

We use SDSS photometry of 73 million stars to simultaneously obtain best-fit main-sequence stellar energy distribution (SED) and amount of dust extinction along the line of sight towards each star. Using a subsample of 23 million stars with…

We have applied ClassX, an oblique decision tree classifier optimized for astronomical analysis, to the homogeneous multicolor imaging data base of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), training the software on subsets of SDSS objects whose…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Suchkov , R. J. Hanisch , Bruce Margon

We present a new catalogue of galaxy triplets derived from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. The identification of systems was performed considering galaxies brighter than M_r=-20.5 and imposing constraints over the projected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-01 Ana Laura O'Mill , Fernanda Duplancic , Diego García Lambas , Carlos Valotto , Laerte Sodré

In modern astrophysics, the machine learning has increasingly gained more popularity with its incredibly powerful ability to make predictions or calculated suggestions for large amounts of data. We describe an application of the supervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-26 Yu Bai , JiFeng Liu , Song Wang , Fan Yang

We investigate star-galaxy classification for astronomical surveys in the context of four methods enabling the interpretation of black-box machine learning systems. The first is outputting and exploring the decision boundaries as given by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Xan Morice-Atkinson , Ben Hoyle , David Bacon

We apply a combination of a Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Support Vector Machines (SVM) machine learning algorithm to solve two important problems faced by the astronomical community: star/galaxy separation, and photometric redshift…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 S. Heinis , S. Kumar , S. Gezari , W. S. Burgett , K. C. Chambers , P. W. Draper , H. Flewelling , N. Kaiser , E. A. Magnier , N. Metcalfe , C. Waters

Obtaining accurate photometric redshift estimations is an important aspect of cosmology, remaining a prerequisite of many analyses. In creating novel methods to produce redshift estimations, there has been a shift towards using machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Ben Henghes , Connor Pettitt , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Tony Hey , Ofer Lahav

We apply four statistical learning methods to a sample of $7941$ galaxies ($z<0.06$) from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to test the feasibility of using automated algorithms to classify galaxies. Using $10$ features measured…

In this work, decision tree learning algorithms and fuzzy inferencing systems are applied for galaxy morphology classification. In particular, the CART, the C4.5, the Random Forest and fuzzy logic algorithms are studied and reliable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-06-02 Adam Gauci , Kristian Zarb Adami , John Abela

Random forests and, more generally, (decision\nobreakdash-)tree ensembles are widely used methods for classification and regression. Recent algorithmic advances allow to compute decision trees that are optimal for various measures such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Christian Komusiewicz , Pascal Kunz , Frank Sommer , Manuel Sorge

Methods. We used different galaxy classification techniques: human labeling, multi-photometry diagrams, Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, k-Nearest Neighbors, and k-fold validation. Results. We present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-09 I. B. Vavilova , D. V. Dobrycheva , M. Yu. Vasylenko , A. A. Elyiv , O. V. Melnyk , V. Khramtsov

We investigate the photometric properties of 456 bright galaxies using imaging data recorded during the commissioning phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Morphological classification is carried out by correlating results of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 K. Shimasaku , M. Fukugita , M. Doi , M. Hamabe , T. Ichikawa , S. Okamura , M. Sekiguchi , N. Yasuda

We present a star/galaxy classification for the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS), based on a Machine Learning approach: the Random Forest algorithm. We train the algorithm using the S-PLUS optical photometry up to $r$=21,…

In recent decades, large-scale sky surveys such as Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have resulted in generation of tremendous amount of data. The classification of this enormous amount of data by astronomers is time consuming. To simplify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 Sarvesh Gharat , Yogesh Dandawate

Reliable estimation of stellar surface gravity (log $g$) for a large sample is crucial for evaluating stellar evolution models and understanding galactic structure; However, it is not easy to accomplish due to the difficulty in gathering a…

We present an application of Mathematical Morphology (MM) for the classification of astronomical objects, both for star/galaxy differentiation and galaxy morphology classification. We demonstrate that, for CCD images, 99.3 +/- 3.8 % of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Jason A. Moore , Kevin A. Pimbblet , Michael J. Drinkwater

Distinguishing active galaxies from star-forming galaxies is essential for understanding galaxy evolution. Diagnostic methods like the BPT (Baldwin, Phillips, and Terlevich) diagram use optical emission-line ratios to separate galaxies.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-26 Farideh Mazoochi , Reihaneh Karimi , Mohammad Hossein Zhoolideh Haghighi , Fatemeh Tabatabaei
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