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We present and describe a catalog of galaxy photometric redshifts (photo-z's) for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Coadd Data. We use the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique to calculate photo-z's and the Nearest Neighbor Error…

We extend the real-space mapping method developed in Shi et at. (2016) so that it can be applied to flux-limited galaxy samples. We use an ensemble of mock catalogs to demonstrate the reliability of this extension, showing that it allows…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Feng Shi , Xiaohu Yang , Huiyuan Wang , Youcai Zhang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch , Wentao Luo , Dylan Tweed , Shijie Li , Chengze Liu , Yi Lu , Lei Yang

We present a new, objectively defined catalog of candidate galaxy clusters based on the galaxy catalogs from the Digitized Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (DPOSS). This cluster catalog, derived from the best calibrated plates in the…

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

The two-step galaxy morphology classification framework {\tt USmorph} successfully combines unsupervised machine learning (UML) with supervised machine learning (SML) methods. To enhance the UML step, we employed a dual-encoder architecture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Xiaolei Yin , Guanwen Fang , Shiying Lu , Zesen Lin , Yao Dai , Chichun Zhou

We present a preliminary study exploring whether the stellar orbital circularity of simulated galaxies, available from precomputed catalogs in the IllustrisTNG project, can be used as a proxy for broad morphological classification. We focus…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-26 Katarina Baucalo , Ana Mitrašinović

Galaxy physical properties-such as star formation rate (SFR), stellar mass, and gas-phase metallicity-are essential for population studies and evolutionary analyses. Deriving these quantities for billions of galaxies in modern imaging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-20 Shirui Wei , Changhua Li , Yanxia Zhang , Chenzhou Cui , Jinghang Shi , Wujun Shao , Zihan Kang , Yongheng Zhao , Maoyuan Huang

We present the development of a photometrically selected massive galaxy catalog, targeting Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) and massive blue galaxies at redshifts $z\geq 0.55$. Massive galaxy candidates are selected using infrared/optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Carolina Núñez , David N. Spergel , Shirley Ho

This paper presents a morphology classification catalog of spiral and ring features of 59,854 magnitude-limited galaxies ($r<17.8$ mag, and additional 628,005 subsamples down to $r=20$ mag) at $z=0.01-0.3$ based on the Third Public Data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-05 Rhythm Shimakawa , Masayuki Tanaka , Kei Ito , Makoto Ando

We search for and find fossil evidence that the distribution of the spin axes of galaxies in cosmic web filaments relative to their host filaments are not randomly distributed. This would indicate that the action of large scale tidal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Bernard J. T. Jones , Rien van de Weygaert , Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo

Multi-band images of galaxies reveal a huge amount of information about their morphology and structure. However, inferring properties of the underlying stellar populations such as age, metallicity or kinematics from those images is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-03 Tobias Buck , Steffen Wolf

Utilizing the SDSS-DR13 spectroscopic dataset, we create a new publicly-available catalog of 1,800 galaxy clusters (GalWeight cluster catalog, $\mathtt{GalWCat19}$) and a corresponding catalog of 34,471 identified member galaxies. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Mohamed H. Abdullah , Gillian Wilson , Anatoly Klypin , Lyndsay Old , Elizabeth Praton , Gamal Ali

The morphological classification of galaxies is considered a relevant issue and can be approached from different points of view. The increasing growth in the size and accuracy of astronomical data sets brings with it the need for the use of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-01 M. S. Rosito , L. A. Bignone , P. B. Tissera , S. E. Pedrosa

Because of the 3D nature of galaxies, an algorithm for constructing spatial density distribution models of galaxies on the basis of galaxy images has many advantages over surface density distribution approximations. We present a method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 E. Tempel , A. Tamm , R. Kipper , P. Tenjes

Encoded within the morphological structure of galaxies are clues related to their formation and evolutionary history. Recent advances pertaining to the statistics of galaxy morphology include sophisticated measures of concentration (C),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 K. M. Hambleton , B. K. Gibson , C. B. Brook , G. S. Stinson , C. J. Conselice , J. Bailin , H. Couchman , J. Wadsley

We construct a catalogue for filaments using a novel approach called SCMS (subspace constrained mean shift; Ozertem & Erdogmus 2011; Chen et al. 2015). SCMS is a gradient-based method that detects filaments through density ridges (smooth…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Yen-Chi Chen , Shirley Ho , Jon Brinkmann , Peter E. Freeman , Christopher R. Genovese , Donald P. Schneider , Larry Wasserman

Quantifying galaxy morphology is a challenging yet scientifically rewarding task. As the scale of data continues to increase with upcoming surveys, traditional classification methods will struggle to handle the load. We present a solution…

We present an optical group catalog between 0.1 < z < 1 based on 16,500 high-quality spectroscopic redshifts in the completed zCOSMOS-bright survey. The catalog published herein contains 1498 groups in total and 192 groups with more than…

We present a catalog of bulge, disk, and total stellar mass estimates for ~660,000 galaxies in the Legacy area of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. These masses are based on a homogeneous catalog of g- and r-band photometry…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Trevor Mendel , Luc Simard , Michael Palmer , Sara L. Ellison , David R. Patton

Here we present the New York University Value-Added Galaxy Catalog (NYU-VAGC), a catalog of local galaxies (mostly below a redshift of about 0.3) based on a set of publicly-released surveys (including the 2dFGRS, 2MASS, PSCz, FIRST, and…