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We present the data release for Galaxy Zoo 2 (GZ2), a citizen science project with more than 16 million morphological classifications of 304,122 galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Morphology is a powerful probe for…

Morphological classification is a key piece of information to define samples of galaxies aiming to study the large-scale structure of the universe. In essence, the challenge is to build up a robust methodology to perform a reliable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-05 P. H. Barchi , R. R. de Carvalho , R. R. Rosa , R. Sautter , M. Soares-Santos , B. A. D. Marques , E. Clua , T. S. Gonçalves , C. de Sá-Freitas , T. C. Moura

The universe is composed of galaxies that have diverse shapes. Once the structure of a galaxy is determined, it is possible to obtain important information about its formation and evolution. Morphologically classifying galaxies means…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-23 N. M. Cardoso , G. B. O. Schwarz , L. O. Dias , C. R. Bom , L. Sodré , C. Mendes de Oliveira

The classification of galaxies as spirals or ellipticals is a crucial task in understanding their formation and evolution. With the arrival of large-scale astronomical surveys, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), astronomers now…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Anusha Guruprasad

Measuring the morphological parameters of galaxies is a key requirement for studying their formation and evolution. Surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have resulted in the availability of very large collections of images,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-25 Sander Dieleman , Kyle W. Willett , Joni Dambre

The classification of galaxy morphologies is an important step in the investigation of theories of hierarchical structure formation. While human expert visual classification remains quite effective and accurate, it cannot keep up with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-13 Matthew J. Baumstark , Giuseppe Vinci

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 task of morphological classification is complex for simple parameterization, but important for research in the galaxy evolution field. Future galaxy surveys (e.g. EUCLID) will collect data about more than a $10^9$ galaxies. To obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Andrey Soroka , Alex Meshcheryakov , Sergey Gerasimov

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…

Galaxy morphology is a fundamental quantity, that is essential not only for the full spectrum of galaxy-evolution studies, but also for a plethora of science in observational cosmology. While a rich literature exists on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Garreth Martin , Sugata Kaviraj , Alex Hocking , Shaun C. Read , James E. Geach

Methods. We used different galaxy classification techniques: human labeling, multi-photometry diagrams, Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, k-Nearest Neighbors, and k-fold validation. Results. We present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-09 I. B. Vavilova , D. V. Dobrycheva , M. Yu. Vasylenko , A. A. Elyiv , O. V. Melnyk , V. Khramtsov

We present a morphological catalogue for $\sim$ 670,000 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in two flavours: T-Type, related to the Hubble sequence, and Galaxy Zoo 2 (GZ2 hereafter) classification scheme. By combining accurate existing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 H. Domínguez Sánchez , M. Huertas-Company , M. Bernardi , D. Tuccillo , J. L. Fischer

The classification of galaxy morphology plays a crucial role in understanding galaxy formation and evolution. Traditionally, this process is done manually. The emergence of deep learning techniques has given room for the automation of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Ezra Fielding , Clement N. Nyirenda , Mattia Vaccari

There are several supervised machine learning methods used for the application of automated morphological classification of galaxies; however, there has not yet been a clear comparison of these different methods using imaging data, or a…

We present an enhanced unsupervised machine learning (UML) module within our previous \texttt{USmorph} classification framework featuring two components: (1) hierarchical feature extraction via a pre-trained ConvNeXt convolutional neural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Guanwen Fang , Shiwei Zhu , Jun Xu , Shiying Lu , Chichun Zhou , Yao Dai , Zesen Lin , Xu Kong

We apply four statistical learning methods to a sample of $7941$ galaxies ($z<0.06$) from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to test the feasibility of using automated algorithms to classify galaxies. Using $10$ features measured…

We use Bayesian convolutional neural networks and a novel generative model of Galaxy Zoo volunteer responses to infer posteriors for the visual morphology of galaxies. Bayesian CNN can learn from galaxy images with uncertain labels and…

We present an automated morphological classification in 4 types (E,S0,Sab,Scd) of ~700.000 galaxies from the SDSS DR7 spectroscopic sample based on support vector machines. The main new property of the classification is that we associate to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Marc Huertas-Company , J. A. L Aguerri , M. Bernardi , S. Mei , J. Sánchez Almeida

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
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