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Edge-on galaxies have many important applications in galactic astrophysics, but they can be difficult to identify in vast amounts of astronomical data. To facilitate the search for them, we have developed a deep learning algorithm designed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-04 Z. Chrobakova , V. Kresnakova , R. Nagy , J. Gazdova , P. Butka

We describe the application of the `shapelet' linear decomposition of galaxy images to multi-wavelength morphological classification using the $u,g,r,i,$ and $z$-band images of 1519 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We utilize…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. C. Kelly , T. A. McKay

We present detailed morphology measurements for 8.67 million galaxies in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (DECaLS, MzLS, and BASS, plus DES). These are automated measurements made by deep learning models trained on Galaxy Zoo volunteer…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) with a step-by-step introduction of inputs, which is constructed by imitating the somatosensory system in human body, known as SpinalNet have been implemented in this work on a Galaxy Zoo dataset. The input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Dim Shaiakhmetov , Remudin Reshid Mekuria , Ruslan Isaev , Fatma Unsal

Establishing accurate morphological measurements of galaxies in a reasonable amount of time for future big-data surveys such as EUCLID, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope or the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope is a challenge. Because…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 D. Tuccillo , M. Huertas-Company , E. Decenciere , S. Velasco-Forero

The classification of galaxy morphology is a hot issue in astronomical research. Although significant progress has been made in the last decade in classifying galaxy morphology using deep learning technology, there are still some…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Guangping Li , Tingting Xu , Liping Li , Xianjun Gao , Zhijing Liu , Jie Cao , Mingcun Yang , Weihong Zhou

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 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

This paper presents machine learning experiments performed over results of galaxy classification into elliptical (E) and spiral (S) with morphological parameters: concetration (CN), assimetry metrics (A3), smoothness metrics (S3), entropy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-22 P. H. Barchi , F. G. da Costa , R. Sautter , T. C. Moura , D. H. Stalder , R. R. Rosa , R. R. de Carvalho

We describe application of the `shapelet' linear decomposition of galaxy images to morphological classification using images of $\sim$ 3000 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. After decomposing the galaxies we perform a principal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Brandon C. Kelly , Timothy A. McKay

It has recently been demonstrated that one can accurately derive galaxy morphology from particular primary and secondary isophotal shape estimates in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging catalog. This was accomplished by applying Machine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. J. Way

The ring structures of disk galaxies are vital for understanding galaxy evolution and dynamics. However, due to the scarcity of ringed galaxies and challenges in their identification, traditional methods often struggle to efficiently obtain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-11 Jianzhen Chen , Zhijian Luo , Cheng Cheng , Jun Hou , Shaohua Zhang , Chenggang Shu

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).…

A full ring is a form of galaxy morphology that is not associated with a specific stage on the Hubble sequence. Digital sky surveys can collect many millions of galaxy images, and therefore even rare forms of galaxies are expected to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-27 Lior Shamir

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…

In this study, we investigate the morphology of galaxies in the TNG100 simulation by applying mock observation techniques and compare the results with the observational data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). By employing a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-01 Jun-Yu Gong , Weipeng Lin , Lin Tang , Yanyao Lan

Classification of galaxies is traditionally associated with their morphologies through visual inspection of images. The amount of data to come renders this task inhuman and Machine Learning (mainly Deep Learning) has been called to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-14 Didier Fraix-Burnet

We present morphological classifications obtained using machine learning for objects in SDSS DR6 that have been classified by Galaxy Zoo into three classes, namely early types, spirals and point sources/artifacts. An artificial neural…

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 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…