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Traditional spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting codes used to derive galaxy physical properties are often uncertain at the factor of a few level owing to uncertainties in galaxy star formation histories and dust attenuation curves.…

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We determine the stellar population properties - age, metallicity, dust reddening, stellar mass and the star formation history - for all spectra classified as galaxies that were published by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS data release…

The spectral energy distribution (SED) of galaxies is essential for deriving fundamental properties like stellar mass and star formation history (SFH). However, conventional methods, including both parametric and non-parametric approaches,…

The classification of radio galaxies is central to understanding galaxy evolution, active galactic nuclei dynamics, and the large-scale structure of the universe. However, traditional manual techniques are inadequate for processing the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Theophilus Ansah-Narh , Jordan Lontsi Tedongmo , Joseph Bremang Tandoh , Nia Imara , Ezekiel Nii Noye Nortey

Accurate measurements of statistical properties, such as the star formation rate and the lifetime of young stellar objects (YSOs) in different stages, is essential for constraining star formation theories. However, it is a difficult task to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-04 Yi-Lung Chiu , Chi-Ting Ho , Daw-Wei Wang , Shih-Ping Lai

The star formation history (SFH) of galaxies allow us to investigate when galaxies formed their stars and assembled their mass. We can constrain the SFH with high level of precision from galaxies with resolved stellar populations, since we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-18 Maria Argudo-Fernández , Médéric Boquien , Shiyin Shen , Fangting Yuan , Jun Yin , Ruixiang Chang , Lei Hao

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

We present a full-spectrum linear fitting method, SEW, for stellar population synthesis based on equivalent widths (EWs) to extract galaxy properties from observed spectra. This approach eliminates the need for prior assumptions about dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-25 Jiafeng Lu , Xi Kang , Shiyin Shen

Narrowband galaxy surveys have recently gained interest as a promising method to achieve the necessary accuracy on the photometric redshift estimate of individual galaxies for stage-IV cosmological surveys. One key advantage is the ability…

Training Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) with Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) frequently encounters difficulties, including substantial computing expense and the risk of converging to local optima, attributable to its dependence on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Gautam Siddharth Kashyap , Md Tabrez Nafis , Samar Wazir

The primary method for inferring the stellar mass ($M_*$) of a galaxy is through spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling. However, the technique rests on assumptions such as the galaxy star formation history and dust attenuation law…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-24 Sidney Lower , Desika Narayanan , Joel Leja , Benjamin D. Johnson , Charlie Conroy , Romeel Davé

The population-based optimization algorithms have provided promising results in feature selection problems. However, the main challenges are high time complexity. Moreover, the interaction between features is another big challenge in FS…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Motahare Namakin , Modjtaba Rouhani , Mostafa Sabzekar

(Abridged) In a recent work we explored the dependence of galaxy stellar population properties derived from broad-band spectral energy distribution fitting on the fitting parameters, e.g. SFHs, age grid, metallicity, IMF, dust reddening,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Janine Pforr , Claudia Maraston , Chiara Tonini

Parameter estimation in astrophysics often requires the use of complex physical models. In this paper we study the problem of estimating the parameters that describe star formation history (SFH) in galaxies. Here, high-dimensional spectral…

Applications · Statistics 2012-03-21 Joseph W. Richards , Ann B. Lee , Chad M. Schafer , Peter E. Freeman

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

We present a fast and accurate method to select an optimal set of parameters in semi-analytic models of galaxy formation and evolution (SAMs). Our approach compares the results of a model against a set of observables applying a stochastic…

Fitness Dependent Optimizer (FDO) is a recent metaheuristic algorithm that mimics the reproduction behavior of the bee swarm in finding better hives. This algorithm is similar to Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) but it works differently.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Hardi M. Mohammed , Tarik A. Rashid

3-SAT problem is of great importance to many technical and scientific applications. This paper presents a new hybrid evolutionary algorithm for solving this satisfiability problem. 3-SAT problem has the huge search space and hence it is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-06-24 Nasser Lotfi , Jamshid Tamouk , Mina Farmanbar

We have developed a powerful method for crystal structure prediction from "scratch" through particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm within the evolutionary scheme. PSO technique is dramatically different with the genetic algorithm and…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-11 Yanchao Wang , Jian Lv , Li Zhu , Yanming Ma

We explore the ability of four different inverse population synthesis codes to recover the physical properties of galaxies from their spectra by SED fitting. Three codes, DynBaS, TGASPEX, and GASPEX, have been implemented by the authors and…