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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has enabled the discovery of a significant population of galaxies at z > 10. Our understanding of the astrophysical properties of these galaxies relies on fitting templates developed using models…

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Barium stars are chemically peculiar stars that exhibit enhancement of s-process elements. Chemical abundance analysis of barium stars can provide crucial clues for the study of the chemical evolution of the Galaxy. The Large Sky Area…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Fengyue Guo , Zhongding Cheng , Xiaoming Kong , Yatao Zhang , Yude Bu , Zhenping Yi , Bing Du , Jingchang Pan

Cosmology and galaxy evolution studies with LSST, \Euclid, and {\it Roman}, will require accurate redshifts for the detected galaxies. In this study, we present improved photometric redshift estimates for galaxies using a template library…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-06 Bomee Lee , Ranga-Ram Chary

Classification of stars and galaxies is a well-known astronomical problem that has been treated using different approaches, most of them relying on morphological information. In this paper, we tackle this issue using the low-resolution…

We present an innovative and widely applicable approach for the detection and classification of stellar clusters, developed for the PHANGS-HST Treasury Program, an $NUV$-to-$I$ band imaging campaign of 38 spiral galaxies. Our pipeline first…

We present the results of a proof-of-concept experiment which demonstrates that deep learning can successfully be used for production-scale classification of compact star clusters detected in HST UV-optical imaging of nearby spiral galaxies…

In the era of huge astronomical surveys, machine learning offers promising solutions for the efficient estimation of galaxy properties. The traditional, `supervised' paradigm for the application of machine learning involves training a model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 A. Humphrey , P. A. C. Cunha , A. Paulino-Afonso , S. Amarantidis , R. Carvajal , J. M. Gomes , I. Matute , P. Papaderos

The stellar haloes of galaxies can currently be studied either through observations of resolved halo stars or through surface photometry. Curiously, the two methods appear to give conflicting results, as a number of surface photometry…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Zackrisson , R. S. de Jong , G. Micheva

Astrometric calibration of images with a small field of view is often inferior to the internal accuracy of the source detections due to the small number of accessible guide stars. One important experiment with such challenges is the Hubble…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Fan Tian , Tamás Budavári , Amitabh Basu , Stephen H. Lubow , Richard L. White

With the development of a series of Galaxy sky surveys in recent years, the observations increased rapidly, which makes the research of machine learning methods for galaxy image recognition a hot topic. Available automatic galaxy image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Xiaohua Ma , Xiangru Li , Ali Luo , Jinqu Zhang , Hui Li

We introduce a new photometric estimator of the HI mass fraction (M_HI/M_*) in local galaxies, which is a linear combination of four parameters: stellar mass, stellar surface mass density, NUV-r colour, and g-i colour gradient. It is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Cheng Li , Guinevere Kauffmann , Jian Fu , Jing Wang , Barbara Catinella , Silvia Fabello , David Schiminovich , Wei Zhang

We present an algorithm designed to identify galaxy (proto)clusters in wide-area photometric surveys by first selecting their dominant galaxy-i.e., the Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) or protoBCG-through the local stellar mass density traced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Marcelo C. Vicentin , Pablo Araya-Araya , Laerte Sodré , Michael A. Strauss

We analyze the clustering of galaxies in the first public data release of the HSC Subaru Strategic Program. Despite the relatively small footprints of the observed fields, the data are an excellent proxy for the deep photometric datasets…

We employ the XGBoost machine learning (ML) method for the morphological classification of galaxies into two (early-type, late-type) and five (E, S0--S0a, Sa--Sb, Sbc--Scd, Sd--Irr) classes, using a combination of non-parametric…

We proposed a machine learning approach to identify and distinguish dusty stellar sources employing supervised and unsupervised methods and categorizing point sources, mainly evolved stars, using photometric and spectroscopic data collected…

Accurate classification of weather conditions in images is essential for enhancing the performance of object detection and classification models under varying weather conditions. This paper presents a comprehensive study on classifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Eden Ship , Eitan Spivak , Shubham Agarwal , Raz Birman , Ofer Hadar

Modern cosmological surveys such as the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey produce a huge volume of low-resolution images of both distant galaxies and dim stars in our own galaxy. Being able to automatically classify these images is a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Imène R. Goumiri , Amanda L. Muyskens , Michael D. Schneider , Benjamin W. Priest , Robert E. Armstrong

Our study aims to recognize M-type stars which are classified as "UNKNOWN" due to bad quality in Large sky Area Multi-Object fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) DR5 V1. A binary nonlinear hashing algorithm based on Multi-Layer Pseudo…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 Y. -X. Guo , A. -L. Luo , S. Zhang , B. Du , Y. -F. Wang , J. -J. Chen , F. Zuo , X. Kong , Y. -H. Hou

The accurate automated classification of variable stars into their respective sub-types is difficult. Machine learning based solutions often fall foul of the imbalanced learning problem, which causes poor generalisation performance in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Zafiirah Hosenie , Robert Lyon , Benjamin Stappers , Arrykrishna Mootoovaloo , Vanessa McBride

Subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) is a popular technique for assigning galaxy mass or luminosity to haloes produced in N-body simulations. The method works by matching the cumulative number functions of the galaxy and halo properties, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-02 Richard Stiskalek , Harry Desmond , Thomas Holvey , Michael G. Jones