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This paper follows series of our works on the applicability of various machine learning methods to the morphological galaxy classification (Vavilova et al., 2021, 2022). We exploited the sample of 315776 SDSS DR9 galaxies with absolute…

Galaxy clustering is a sensitive probe of the expansion history and growth of structure of the universe, and key degeneracies can be broken by combining these data with measurements of cosmic shear and galaxy-galaxy lensing (a so-called…

We present a novel method to differentiate stream-like and shell-like tidal remnants of stellar systems in galactic halos using the density-based approach of the clustering algorithm AstroLink. While previous studies lean on observation,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-17 Viraj Ekanayaka , Smrithi Gireesh Babu , William H. Oliver , Geraint F. Lewis

We present an optimisation method for the assignment of photometric galaxies into a chosen set of redshift bins. This is achieved by combining simulated annealing, an optimisation algorithm inspired by solid-state physics, with an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Benjamin Stölzner , Benjamin Joachimi , Andreas Korn , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

We present sDBSCAN, a scalable density-based clustering algorithm in high dimensions with cosine distance. Utilizing the neighborhood-preserving property of random projections, sDBSCAN can quickly identify core points and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haochuan Xu , Ninh Pham

Numerous methods for finding clusters at moderate to high redshifts have been proposed in recent years, at wavelengths ranging from radio to X-rays. In this paper we describe a new method for detecting clusters in two-band optical/near-IR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael D. Gladders , H. K. C. Yee

The paper presents the algorithm for clustering a dataset by grouping the optimal, from the point of view of the BIC criterion, number of Gaussian clusters into the optimal, from the point of view of their statistical separability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Oleg I. Berngardt

We present the construction of an image similarity retrieval engine for the morphological classification of galaxies using the Convolutional AutoEncoder (CAE). The CAE is trained on 90,370 preprocessed Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxy images…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-04 Eunsuk Seo , Suk Kim , Youngdae Lee , Sang-Il Han , Hak-Sub Kim , Soo-Chang Rey , Hyunmi Song

Cluster analysis, or clustering, plays a crucial role across numerous scientific and engineering domains. Despite the wealth of clustering methods proposed over the past decades, each method is typically designed for specific scenarios and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-22 Siyi Wang , Alexandre Leblanc , Paul D. McNicholas

We describe an automated method for detecting clusters of galaxies in imaging and redshift galaxy surveys. The Adaptive Matched Filter (AMF) method utilizes galaxy positions, magnitudes, and---when available---photometric or spectroscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-04 Jeremy Kepner , Xiaohui Fan , Neta Bahcall , James Gunn , Robert Lupton , Guohong Xu

This work identifies the orientation of galaxies in the Galaxy zoo data set. The images are first identified by the number of principal components required to represent 99 percent of the variance of the image. K means clustering is used to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-27 Vijay Shankar A

Clustering analysis identifies samples as groups based on either their mutual closeness or homogeneity. In order to detect clusters in arbitrary shapes, a novel and generic solution based on boundary erosion is proposed. The clusters are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Cheng-Hao Deng , Wan-Lei Zhao

In general, a similarity threshold (i.e., a vigilance parameter) for a node learning process in Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART)-based algorithms has a significant impact on clustering performance. In addition, an edge deletion threshold in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Naoki Masuyama , Takanori Takebayashi , Yusuke Nojima , Chu Kiong Loo , Hisao Ishibuchi , Stefan Wermter

This paper presents a batch-wise density-based clustering approach for local outlier detection in massive-scale datasets. Unlike the well-known traditional algorithms, which assume that all the data is memory-resident, our proposed method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Sayyed Ahmad Naghavi Nozad , Maryam Amir Haeri , Gianluigi Folino

Density-based clustering is the task of discovering high-density regions of entities (clusters) that are separated from each other by contiguous regions of low-density. DBSCAN is, arguably, the most popular density-based clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Stiphen Chowdhury , Renato Cordeiro de Amorim

We use the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey data to compile catalogues of superclusters for the Northern and Southern regions of the 2dFGRS, altogether 543 superclusters at redshifts 0.009 < z < 0.2. We analyse methods of compiling supercluster…

Cluster analysis which focuses on the grouping and categorization of similar elements is widely used in various fields of research. Inspired by the phenomenon of atomic fission, a novel density-based clustering algorithm is proposed in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Shizhan Lu

We describe the scientific motivation behind, and the methodology of, the Stanford Cluster Search (StaCS), a program to compile a catalog of optically selected clusters of galaxies at intermediate and high (0.3 < z < 1) redshifts. The…

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

The Six Degree Field Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) is a spectroscopic survey of the southern sky, which aims to provide positions and velocities of galaxies in the nearby Universe. We present here the adaptive tiling algorithm developed to place…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 Lachlan Campbell , Will Saunders , Matthew Colless