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We conduct a comprehensive study of the effects of incorporating galaxy morphology information in photometric redshift estimation. Using machine learning methods, we assess the changes in the scatter and catastrophic outlier fraction of…

The optical morphology of galaxies is strongly related to galactic environment, with the fraction of early-type galaxies increasing with local galaxy density. In this work we present the first analysis of the galaxy morphology-density…

The first SRG/eROSITA all-sky X-ray survey, eRASS1, resulted in a catalogue of over twelve thousand optically-confirmed galaxy groups and clusters in the western Galactic hemisphere. Using the eROSITA images of these objects, we measure and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 J. S. Sanders , Y. E. Bahar , E. Bulbul , V. Ghirardini , A. Liu , N. Clerc , M. E. Ramos-Ceja , T. H. Reiprich , F. Balzer , J. Comparat , M. Kluge , F. Pacaud , X. Zhang

We use an approach to estimate galaxy morphologies based on an ellipticity (e) vs. Bulge-to-Total ratio (B/T) plane. We have calibrated this plane by comparing with Dressler's classifications. With the aid of our calibration, we have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Christopher Añorve , Omar López-Cruz , Hector Ibarra-Medel , Jonathan León-Tavares

We investigate machine learning (ML) techniques for predicting the number of galaxies (N_gal) that occupy a halo, given the halo's properties. These types of mappings are crucial for constructing the mock galaxy catalogs necessary for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Xiaoying Xu , Shirley Ho , Hy Trac , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos , Michelle Ntampaka

Modern radio telescope surveys, capable of detecting billions of galaxies in wide-field surveys, have made manual morphological classification impracticable. This applies in particular when the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-09 Philipp Denzel , Manuel Weiss , Elena Gavagnin , Frank-Peter Schilling

The detection of objects that are multi-oriented is a difficult pattern recognition problem. In this paper, we propose to evaluate the performance of different families of descriptors for the classification of galaxy morphologies. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Hubert Cecotti

We present a new method for inferring galaxy star formation histories (SFH) using machine learning methods coupled with two cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. We train Convolutional Neural Networks to learn the relationship between…

The classification of galaxy clusters according to their X-ray appearance is a powerful tool to discriminate between regular clusters (associated to relaxed objects) and disturbed ones (linked to dynamically active systems). The compilation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-29 Elena Rasia , Massimo Meneghetti , Stefano Ettori

Astronomers have typically set out to solve supervised machine learning problems by creating their own representations from scratch. We show that deep learning models trained to answer every Galaxy Zoo DECaLS question learn meaningful…

We present a quantitative analysis of the morphologies for 199 nearby galaxies as parameterized with measurements of the concentration, asymmetry, and clumpiness (CAS) parameters at wavelengths from 0.15-0.85 micrometers. We find that these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Violet Taylor-Mager , Christopher Conselice , Rogier Windhorst , Rolf Jansen

We present the largest, most homogeneous catalogue of merging galaxies in the nearby universe obtained through the Galaxy Zoo project - an interface on the world-wide web enabling large-scale morphological classification of galaxies through…

We present a catalog of visual like H-band morphologies of $\sim50.000$ galaxies ($H_{f160w}<24.5$) in the 5 CANDELS fields (GOODS-N, GOODS-S, UDS, EGS and COSMOS). Morphologies are estimated with Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets).…

Quantifying the morphology of galaxies has been an important task in astrophysics to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. In recent years, the data size has been dramatically increasing due to several on-going and upcoming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-07 Joshua Yao-Yu Lin , Song-Mao Liao , Hung-Jin Huang , Wei-Ting Kuo , Olivia Hsuan-Min Ou

We describe a simple and fast method to correct ellipticity measurements of galaxies from the distortion by the instrumental and atmospheric point spread function (PSF), in view of weak lensing shear measurements. The method performs a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-01 M. Tewes , N. Cantale , F. Courbin , T. D. Kitching , G. Meylan

The measurement of galaxy morphological parameters from astronomical images features in a wide range of modern analyses, including galaxy evolution and cosmological weak lensing studies. The precision and accuracy of morphological parameter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Samuel Kahn , Ryan Hausen , Hubert Bretonnière , Nicole Drakos , Brant Robertson

The formation of Hoag-type galaxies with central spheroidal galaxies and outer stellar rings has yet to be understood in astronomy. We consider that these unique objects were formed from the past interaction between elliptical galaxies and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-08 Eleanor Leung , Kenji Bekki , Lyndon While

Modern astronomy relies on massive databases collected by robotic telescopes and digital sky surveys, acquiring data in a much faster pace than what manual analysis can support. Among other data, these sky surveys collect information about…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-29 Evan Kuminski , Lior Shamir

We present a machine learning analysis of five labelled galaxy catalogues from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The SersicCatVIKING and SersicCatUKIDSS catalogues containing morphological features, the GaussFitSimple catalogue…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-22 Aleke Nolte , Lingyu Wang , Maciej Bilicki , Benne Holwerda , Michael Biehl

We revisit the evolution of galaxy morphology in the COSMOS field over the redshift range $0.2\leq z \leq 1$, using a large and complete sample of 33,605 galaxies with a stellar mass of log($M_{\ast}$/M$_{\odot} )>9.5$ with significantly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-29 Jian Ren , Nan Li , F. S. Liu , Qifan Cui , Mingxiang Fu , Xian Zhong Zheng