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Far-infrared imaging surveys of Galactic star-forming regions with Herschel have shown that a substantial part of the cold interstellar medium appears as a fascinating web of omnipresent filamentary structures. This highly anisotropic…

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We investigate the quality of associations of astronomical sources from multi-wavelength observations using simulated detections that are realistic in terms of their astrometric accuracy, small-scale clustering properties and selection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Sebastien Heinis , Tamas Budavari , Alexander S. Szalay

Photometric redshifts, which have become the cornerstone of several of the largest astronomical surveys like PanStarrs, DES, J-PAS or the LSST, require precise measurements of galaxy photometry in different bands using a consistent physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 Y. Jiménez-Teja , N. Benítez , A. Molino , C. A. C. Fernandes

The slitless spectroscopic method employed by missions such as Euclid and the Chinese Space-station Survey Telescope (CSST) faces a fundamental challenge: spectroscopic redshifts derived from their data are susceptible to emission-line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-18 Hui Peng , Yu Yu , Yiyang Guo , Yizhou Gu , Run Wen , Yunkun Han , Jipeng Sui , Hu Zou , Xiaohu Yang , Pengjie Zhang , Xian Zhong Zheng , Hong Guo , Yipeng Jing , Cheng Li , Hu Zhan , Gongbo Zhao

We present a routinized and reliable method to obtain source catalogs from the $\textit{Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array}$ ($\textit{NuSTAR}$) extragalactic surveys of the Extended $\textit{Chandra}$ Deep Field-South (E-CDF-S) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-29 Tianyi Zhang , Yongquan Xue

Current image retrieval systems often face domain specificity and generalization issues. This study aims to overcome these limitations by developing a computationally efficient training framework for a universal feature extractor that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Morris Florek , David Tschirschwitz , Björn Barz , Volker Rodehorst

Point source detection at low signal-to-noise is challenging for astronomical surveys, particularly in radio interferometry images where the noise is correlated. Machine learning is a promising solution, allowing the development of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 A. Vafaei Sadr , Etienne. E. Vos , Bruce A. Bassett , Zafiirah Hosenie , N. Oozeer , Michelle Lochner

Aims. In astronomy, machine learning has been successful in various tasks such as source localisation, classification, anomaly detection, and segmentation. However, feature regression remains an area with room for improvement. We aim to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 F. Stoppa , R. Ruiz de Austri , P. Vreeswijk , S. Bhattacharyya , S. Caron , S. Bloemen , G. Zaharijas , G. Principe , V. Vodeb , P. J. Groot , E. Cator , G. Nelemans

Codecs using spectral-spatial transforms efficiently compress raw camera images captured with a color filter array (CFA-sampled raw images) by changing their RGB color space into a decorrelated color space. This study describes two types of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Taizo Suzuki , Liping Huang

We present T-PHOT, a publicly available software aimed at extracting accurate photometry from low-resolution images of deep extragalactic fields, where the blending of sources can be a serious problem for the accurate and unbiased…

Panchromatic spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting is a critical tool for determining the physical properties of distant galaxies, such as their stellar mass and star formation rate. One widely used method is the publicly available…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 Daniel J. B. Smith , Christopher C. Hayward

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite performed the first and only large-area UV survey, which in tandem with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has facilitated modeling of the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of low-redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-27 Chandler Osborne , Samir Salim , Mederic Boquien , Mark Dickinson , Stephane Arnouts

We present a study of spatially-resolved star formation histories (SFHs) for 60 $z\sim2.3$ main-sequence, star-forming galaxies selected from the MOSDEF spectroscopic survey in the GOODS-N field, with median stellar mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-29 Sam E. Cutler , Mauro Giavalisco , Zhiyuan Ji , Yingjie Cheng

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…

The completeness of source detection is critical for analyzing the photometric and spatial properties of the population of interest observed by astronomical imaging. We present a software package $\mathtt{ComEst}$, which calculates the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-24 I-Non Chiu , Shantanu Desai , Jiayi Liu

Optimal error estimation is key to achieve accurate photometry and astrometry. Stellar fluxes and positions in high angular resolution images are typically measured with PSF fitting routines, such as StarFinder. However, the formal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-12 E. Gallego-Cano , R. Schödel , A. T. Gallego-Calvente , A. M. Ghez

We present a multi-wavelength catalog in the Subaru-XMM Deep Field (SXDF) as part of the Spitzer Large Area Survey with Hyper-Suprime-Cam (SPLASH). We include the newly acquired optical data from the Hyper-Suprime Cam Subaru Strategic…

Not only source catalogs are extracted from astronomy observations. Their sky coverage is always carefully recorded and used in statistical analyses, such as correlation and luminosity function studies. Here we present a novel method for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-20 Dongwei Fan , Tamás Budavári , Alexander S. Szalay , Chenzhou Cui , Yongheng Zhao

Galaxy model subtraction removes the smooth light of nearby galaxies so that fainter sources (e.g., stars, star clusters, background galaxies) can be identified and measured. Traditional approaches (isophotal or parametric fitting) are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 Rongrong Liu , Eric W. Peng , Kaixiang Wang , Laura Ferrarese , Patrick Côté