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Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is a promising technique to constrain the global distribution of galaxy properties. To combine LIM experiments probing different tracers with traditional galaxy surveys and fully exploit the scientific potential…

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We study the spectral classification of emission-line galaxies as star-forming galaxies or Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) high quality data, we define an improved classification to be used for high…

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Galaxy surveys targeting emission lines are characterising the evolution of star-forming galaxies, but there is still little theoretical progress in modelling their physical properties. We predict nebular emission from star-forming galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Alvaro Orsi , Nelson Padilla , Brent Groves , Sofia Cora , Tomas Tecce , Ignacio Gargiulo , Andres Ruiz

In this paper we discuss an application of machine learning based methods to the identification of candidate AGN from optical survey data and to the automatic classification of AGNs in broad classes. We applied four different machine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-14 Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Raffaele D'Abrusco , Giuseppe Longo , Maurizio Paolillo

We use the chemical evolution predictions of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations with our latest theoretical stellar population synthesis, photoionization and shock models to predict the strong line evolution of ensembles of galaxies from…

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Optical emission-line diagnostic diagrams, such as the classical BPT, are widely used to identify ionisation mechanisms in galaxies but often suffer from degeneracies, especially when multiple sources coexist. We critically evaluate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 S. F. Sánchez , C. Muñoz-Tuñón , J. Sánchez Almeida , O. González-Martín , E. Pérez

Classification of intermediate redshift ($z$ = 0.3--0.8) emission line galaxies as star-forming galaxies, composite galaxies, active galactic nuclei (AGN), or low-ionization nuclear emission regions (LINERs) using optical spectra alone was…

Current methods of identifying the ionizing source of nebular emission in galaxies are well defined for the era of single fiber spectroscopy, but still struggle to differentiate the complex and overlapping ionization sources in some…

We propose a new soft clustering scheme for classifying galaxies in different activity classes using simultaneously 4 emission-line ratios; log([NII ]/Ha), log([SII]/Ha), log([OI]/Ha) and log([OIII]/Hb). We fit 20 multivariate Gaussian…

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The standard picture of galaxy formation motivates the decomposition of the Milky Way into 3--4 stellar populations with distinct kinematic and elemental abundance distributions: the thin disk, thick disk, bulge, and stellar halo. To test…

A significant fraction of observed galaxies in the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will overlap at least one other galaxy along the same line of sight, in a so-called "blend." The current standard method of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-20 James J. Buchanan , Michael D. Schneider , Robert E. Armstrong , Amanda L. Muyskens , Benjamin W. Priest , Ryan J. Dana

Machine learning, algorithms to extract empirical knowledge from data, can be used to classify data, which is one of the most common tasks in observational astronomy. In this paper, we focus on Bayesian data classification algorithms using…

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To better characterize the upper end of the galaxy stellar mass range, the MUSE Most Massive Galaxies (M3G) Survey targeted the most massive galaxies (M$>10^{12}$ M$_{\odot}$) found in the densest known clusters of galaxies at $z\sim0.046$.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-12 I. Pagotto , D. Krajnović , M. den Brok , E. Emsellem , J. Brinchmann , P. M. Weilbacher , W. Kollatschny , M. Steinmetz

We introduce a novel galaxy classification methodology based on the visible spectra of a sample of over 68,000 nearby ($z\leq 0.1$) Sloan Digital Sky Survey lenticular (S0) galaxies. Unlike traditional diagnostic diagrams, which rely on a…

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The JWST and ALMA have detected emission lines from the ionized interstellar medium (ISM) in some of the first galaxies at $z \gtrsim 6$. These measurements present an opportunity to better understand galaxy assembly histories and may allow…

Detection of point sources in images is a fundamental operation in astrophysics, and is crucial for constraining population models of the underlying point sources or characterizing the background emission. Standard techniques fall short in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Tansu Daylan , Stephen K. N. Portillo , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

In this paper we present a classification of emission-line galaxies at intermediate and high redshifts (0.52.5 for near-infrared spectra), using the Dn(4000) index as a supplementary diagnostic. Our goal is to complement the diagnostic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-16 Julien Marocco , Emeric Hache , Fabrice Lamareille

In the absence of the two emission lines H$\alpha$ and [NII] (6584\AA) in a BPT diagram, we show that other spectral information is sufficiently informative to distinguish AGN galaxies from star-forming galaxies. We use pattern recognition…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Hossen Teimoorinia , Jared Keown

Emission line diagnostic diagrams probing the ionization sources in galaxies, such as the Baldwin-Phillips-Terlevich (BPT) diagram, have been used extensively to distinguish AGN from purely star-forming galaxies. Yet, they remain poorly…

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