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Galaxy morphology is a fundamental quantity, that is essential not only for the full spectrum of galaxy-evolution studies, but also for a plethora of science in observational cosmology. While a rich literature exists on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Garreth Martin , Sugata Kaviraj , Alex Hocking , Shaun C. Read , James E. Geach

The morphology of a galaxy has been shown to encode the evolutionary history and correlates strongly with physical properties such as stellar mass, star formation rates and past merger events. While the majority of galaxies in the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-23 Clár-Bríd Tohill , Steven Bamford , Christopher Conselice

Galaxy morphology offers significant insights into the evolutionary pathways and underlying physics of galaxies. As astronomical data grows with surveys such as Euclid and Vera C. Rubin , there is a need for tools to classify and analyze…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-18 I. Kolesnikov , V. M. Sampaio , R. R. de Carvalho , C. Conselice , S. B. Rembold , C. L. Mendes , R. R. Rosa

We explore unsupervised machine learning for galaxy morphology analyses using a combination of feature extraction with a vector-quantised variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE) and hierarchical clustering (HC). We propose a new methodology that…

Galaxy morphology reflects structural properties which contribute to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. Deep convolutional networks have proven to be very successful in learning hidden features that allow for unprecedented…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Shoulin Wei , Yadi Li , Wei Lu , Nan Li , Bo Liang , Wei Dai , Zhijian Zhang

In recent years, large scale data intensive astronomical surveys have resulted in more detailed images being produced than scientists can manually classify. Even attempts to crowd-source this work will soon be outpaced by the large amount…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Ezra Fielding , Clement N. Nyirenda , Mattia Vaccari

Morphological classification is a key piece of information to define samples of galaxies aiming to study the large-scale structure of the universe. In essence, the challenge is to build up a robust methodology to perform a reliable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-05 P. H. Barchi , R. R. de Carvalho , R. R. Rosa , R. Sautter , M. Soares-Santos , B. A. D. Marques , E. Clua , T. S. Gonçalves , C. de Sá-Freitas , T. C. Moura

We present an unsupervised machine learning technique that automatically segments and labels galaxies in astronomical imaging surveys using only pixel data. Distinct from previous unsupervised machine learning approaches used in astronomy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Alex Hocking , James E. Geach , Yi Sun , Neil Davey

Galaxy morphologies play an essential role in the study of the evolution of galaxies. The determination of morphologies is laborious for a large amount of data giving rise to machine learning-based approaches. Unfortunately, most of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Zhuo Cao , Lena Krieger , Hanno Scharr , Ira Assent

Classification of galaxies is traditionally associated with their morphologies through visual inspection of images. The amount of data to come renders this task inhuman and Machine Learning (mainly Deep Learning) has been called to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-14 Didier Fraix-Burnet

Galaxies of rare morphology are of paramount scientific interest, as they carry important information about the past, present, and future universe. Once a rare galaxy is identified, studying it more effectively requires a set of galaxies of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 Lior Shamir

The large number of galaxies imaged by digital sky surveys reinforces the need for computational methods for analyzing galaxy morphology. While the morphology of most galaxies can be associated with a stage on the Hubble sequence,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-17 Lior Shamir , Anthony Holincheck , John Wallin

Galaxy morphology classification plays a crucial role in understanding the structure and evolution of the universe. With galaxy observation data growing exponentially, machine learning has become a core technology for this classification…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-29 Zhijian Luo , Jianzhen Chen , Zhu Chen , Shaohua Zhang , Liping Fu , Hubing Xiao , Chenggang Shu

This paper is the third which examines galaxy morphology from the point of view of comprehensive de Vaucouleurs revised Hubble-Sandage (CVRHS) classification, a variation on the original de Vaucouleurs classification volume that accounts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-26 Ronald J. Buta

Classification of galaxy morphology is a challenging but meaningful task for the enormous amount of data produced by the next-generation telescope. By introducing the adaptive polar coordinate transformation, we develop a rotationally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-11 G. W. Fang , S. Ba , Y. Z. Gu , Z. S. Lin , Y. J. Hou , C. X. Qin , C. C. Zhou , J. Xu , Y. Dai , J. Song , X. Kong

In order to obtain morphological information of unlabeled galaxies, we present an unsupervised machine-learning (UML) method for morphological classification of galaxies, which can be summarized as two aspects: (1) the methodology of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-02 C. C. Zhou , Y. Z. Gu , G. W. Fang , Z. S. Lin

The study of the morphology of galaxies is important in order to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies and their sub-components as a function of luminosity, environment, and star-formation and galaxy assembly over cosmic time.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-12 Yogesh Wadadekar

The morphological classification of galaxies provides vital physical information about the orbital motions of stars in galaxies, and correlates in interesting ways with star formation history, and other physical properties. Galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-14 Karen Masters

The task of morphological classification is complex for simple parameterization, but important for research in the galaxy evolution field. Future galaxy surveys (e.g. EUCLID) will collect data about more than a $10^9$ galaxies. To obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Andrey Soroka , Alex Meshcheryakov , Sergey Gerasimov

In this work we explore the possibility of applying machine learning methods designed for one-dimensional problems to the task of galaxy image classification. The algorithms used for image classification typically rely on multiple costly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 F. Tarsitano , C. Bruderer , K. Schawinski , W. G. Hartley
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