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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…

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With increasing amounts of data in astronomy, automated analysis methods have become crucial. Synthetic data are required for developing and testing such methods. Current simulations often suffer from insufficient detail or inaccurate…

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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…

Generation of science-ready data from processed data products is one of the major challenges in next-generation radio continuum surveys with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its precursors, due to the expected data volume and the need…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-26 S. Riggi , G. Umana , C. Trigilio , C. Bordiu , F. Bufano , A. Ingallinera , F. Cavallaro , Y. Gordon , R. P. Norris , G. Gürkan , P. Leto , C. Buemi , S. Loru , A. M. Hopkins , M. D. Filipović , T. Cecconello

In this work, we estimate the intrinsic dimension (iD) of the Radio Galaxy Zoo (RGZ) dataset using a score-based diffusion model. We examine how the iD estimates vary as a function of Bayesian neural network (BNN) energy scores, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Joan Font-Quer Roset , Devina Mohan , Anna Scaife

In this work, we explore the potential of multi-domain multi-branch convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for identifying comparatively rare giant radio galaxies from large volumes of survey data, such as those expected for new-generation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 H. Tang , A. M. M. Scaife , O. I. Wong , S. S. Shabala

We develop a new analysis approach towards identifying related radio components and their corresponding infrared host galaxy based on unsupervised machine learning methods. By exploiting PINK, a self-organising map algorithm, we are able to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 T. J. Galvin , M. Huynh , R. P. Norris , X. R. Wang , E. Hopkins , K. Polsterer , N. O. Ralph , A. N. O'Brien , G. H. Heald

We present a novel natural language processing (NLP) approach to deriving plain English descriptors for science cases otherwise restricted by obfuscating technical terminology. We address the limitations of common radio galaxy morphology…

Understanding morphological types of galaxies is a key parameter for studying their formation and evolution. Neural networks that have been used previously for galaxy morphology classification have some disadvantages, such as not being…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Reza Katebi , Yadi Zhou , Ryan Chornock , Razvan Bunescu

State-of-the-art radio observatories produce large amounts of data which can be used to study the properties of radio galaxies. However, with this rapid increase in data volume, it has become unrealistic to manually process all of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Kevin Brand , Trienko L. Grobler , Waldo Kleynhans , Mattia Vaccari , Matthew Prescott , Burger Becker

Cross-matching catalogues from radio surveys to catalogues of sources at other wavelengths is extremely hard, because radio sources are often extended, often consist of several spatially separated components, and often no radio component is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-13 Dongwei Fan , Tamás Budavári , Ray P. Norris , Amitabh Basu

Modern radio telescopes will daily generate data sets on the scale of exabytes for systems like the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Massive data sets are a source of unknown and rare astrophysical phenomena that lead to discoveries.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-08 Steven Ndung'u , Trienko Grobler , Stefan J. Wijnholds , Dimka Karastoyanova , George Azzopardi

In this study, we examine over 14,000 radio galaxies finely selected from Radio Galaxy Zoo (RGZ) project and provide classifications for approximately 5,900 FRIs and 8,100 FRIIs. We present an analysis of these predicted radio galaxy…

Radiative transfer calculations are essential for modeling planetary atmospheres. However, standard methods are computationally demanding and impose accuracy-speed trade-offs. High computational costs force numerical simplifications in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Isaac Malsky , Tiffany Kataria , Natasha E. Batalha , Matthew Graham

Over the past decades, significant efforts have been devoted to developing sophisticated algorithms for automatically identifying and classifying radio sources in large surveys. However, even the most advanced methods face challenges in…

Foundation models offer a promising route to transferable remote sensing representations, but many current approaches depend on very large pretraining datasets and fixed sensor configurations, limiting their suitability for ecological and…

Sky models used in radio interferometric data processing primarily consist of compact and discrete radio sources. When there is a need to model large scale diffuse structure such as the Galaxy, specialized source models are sought after for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Sarod Yatawatta

Next-generation radio surveys will yield an unprecedented amount of data, warranting analysis by use of machine learning techniques. Convolutional neural networks are the deep learning technique that has proven to be the most successful in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 V. Lukic , M. Brüggen , B. Mingo , J. H. Croston , G. Kasieczka , P. N. Best

We present a novel multimodal dataset developed by expert astronomers to automate the detection and localisation of multi-component extended radio galaxies and their corresponding infrared hosts. The dataset comprises 4,155 instances of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Nikhel Gupta , Zeeshan Hayder , Ray P. Norris , Minh Hyunh , Lars Petersson

Machine learning techniques have been successfully used to classify variable stars on widely-studied astronomical surveys. These datasets have been available to astronomers long enough, thus allowing them to perform deep analysis over…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Patricio Benavente , Pavlos Protopapas , Karim Pichara