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By applying our previously developed two-step scheme for galaxy morphology classification, we present a catalog of galaxy morphology for H-band selected massive galaxies in the COSMOS-DASH field, which includes 17292 galaxies with stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-07 Yao Dai , Jun Xu , Jie Song , Guanwen Fang , Chichun Zhou , Shuo Ba , Yizhou Gu , Zesen Lin , Xu Kong

Aims: Following the study already presented in our previous paper, based on the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) sample, which consists of five clusters of galaxies within the redshift range 0.18 $\leq$ z $\leq$ 0.25, imaged in the central…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 B. Ascaso , J. A. L Aguerri , M. Moles , R. Sánchez-Janssen , D. Bettoni

We train three convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to classify galaxies with Galaxy Zoo 2 dataset and extract the activations from the last fully connected layer or the last average pooling layer of CNNs to study the high-dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-17 Jia-Ming Dai , Jizhou Tong

Using traditional morphological classifications of galaxies in 10 intermediate-redshift (z~0.5) clusters observed with WFPC-2 on the Hubble Space Telescope, we derive relations between morphology and local galaxy density similar to that…

[abridged] New near-infrared surveys, using the HST, offer an unprecedented opportunity to study rest-frame optical galaxy morphologies at z>1 and to calibrate automated morphological parameters that will play a key role in classifying…

In order to establish an objective framework for studying galaxy morphology, we have developed a quantitative two-parameter description of galactic structure that maps closely on to Hubble's original tuning fork. Any galaxy can be placed in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roberto G. Abraham , Michael R. Merrifield

Morphological classification conveys abundant information on the formation, evolution, and environment of galaxies. In this work, we refine the two-step galaxy morphological classification framework ({\tt\string USmorph}), which employs a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-25 Jie Song , GuanWen Fang , Shuo Ba , Zesen Lin , Yizhou Gu , Chichun Zhou , Tao Wang , Cai-Na Hao , Guilin Liu , Hongxin Zhang , Yao Yao , Xu Kong

The Galactic bulge, that is the prominent out-of-plane over-density present in the inner few kiloparsecs of the Galaxy, is a complex structure, as the morphology, kinematics, chemistry and ages of its stars indicate. To understand the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-06 P. Di Matteo

The Hubble tuning fork diagram, based on morphology and established in the 1930s, has always been the preferred scheme for classification of galaxies. However, the current large amount of data up to higher and higher redshifts asks for more…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-03 Didier Fraix-Burnet

We present the results of a series of numerical simulations aimed to study the evolution of a disc galaxy within the global tidal field of a group environment. Both the disc galaxy and the group are modelled as multi-component,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Álvaro Villalobos , Gabriella De Lucia , Stefano Borgani , Giuseppe Murante

In recent decades, large-scale sky surveys such as Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have resulted in generation of tremendous amount of data. The classification of this enormous amount of data by astronomers is time consuming. To simplify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 Sarvesh Gharat , Yogesh Dandawate

The results of morphological galaxy classifications performed by humans and by automated methods are compared. In particular, a comparison is made between the eyeball classifications of 454 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicholas M. Ball

We present a preliminary study exploring whether the stellar orbital circularity of simulated galaxies, available from precomputed catalogs in the IllustrisTNG project, can be used as a proxy for broad morphological classification. We focus…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-26 Katarina Baucalo , Ana Mitrašinović

We examine morphology-separated color-mass diagrams to study the quenching of star formation in $\sim 100,000$ ($z\sim0$) Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and $\sim 20,000$ ($z\sim1$) Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-29 Aritra Ghosh , C. Megan Urry , Zhengdong Wang , Kevin Schawinski , Dennis Turp , Meredith C. Powell

The origin of S0 galaxies is discussed in the framework of early mergers in a Cold Dark Matter cosmology, and in a scenario where S0s are assumed to be former spirals stripped of gas. From an analysis of 127 early-type disk galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Laurikainen , H. Salo , R. Buta , J. H. Knapen

One of the most outstanding questions in contemporary astrophysics is: What is the significance of galaxy morphology? What physical processes underlier the morphologies we observe and is a galaxy's internal structure driving its evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Louis Quilley , Matthew D. Lehnert , Valérie de Lapparent

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

The morphology of a galaxy has been shown to encode the evolutionary history and correlates strongly with physical properties such as stellar mass, star formation rates and past merger events. While the majority of galaxies in the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-23 Clár-Bríd Tohill , Steven Bamford , Christopher Conselice

The study of galaxy morphology is fundamental to understand the physical processes driving the structural evolution of galaxies. It has long been known that dense environments host high fractions of early-type galaxies and low fractions of…

Massive galaxies at higher redshifts ($\emph{z}$ $>$ 2) show different characteristics from their local counterparts: They are compact and most likely have a disk. In this study, we trace the evolution of local massive galaxies by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-15 Roozbeh H. Davari , Luis C. Ho , Bahram Mobasher , Gabriela Canalizo