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We present a machine-learning framework to accurately characterize morphologies of Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) host galaxies within $z<1$. We first use PSFGAN to decouple host galaxy light from the central point source, then we invoke the…

We explore unsupervised machine learning for galaxy morphology analyses using a combination of feature extraction with a vector-quantised variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE) and hierarchical clustering (HC). We propose a new methodology that…

We present a novel quantitative scheme of cluster classification based on the morphological properties that are manifested in X-ray images. We use a conventional radial surface brightness concentration parameter (c_{SB}) as defined…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Nurgaliev , M. McDonald , B. A. Benson , E. D. Miller , C. W. Stubbs , A. Vikhlinin

Morphology and structure of galaxies reflect their star formation and assembly histories. We use the framework of mutual information ($\mathrm{MI}$) to quantify interdependence among several structural variables and to rank them according…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Hassen M. Yesuf , Luis C. Ho , S. M. Faber

We present results exploring the role that probabilistic deep learning models can play in cosmology from large scale astronomical surveys through estimating the distances to galaxies (redshifts) from photometry. Due to the massive scale of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Evan Jones , Tuan Do , Bernie Boscoe , Yujie Wan , Zooey Nguyen , Jack Singal

Handling big data has largely been a major bottleneck in traditional statistical models. Consequently, when accurate point prediction is the primary target, machine learning models are often preferred over their statistical counterparts for…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-02 Arindam Fadikar , Stefan M. Wild , Jonas Chaves-Montero

We use the Random Forest (RF) algorithm to develop a tool for automated activity classification of galaxies into 5 different classes: Star-forming (SF), AGN, LINER, Composite, and Passive. We train the algorithm on a combination of mid-IR…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-22 Elias Kyritsis , Charalampos Daoutis , Andreas Zezas , Konstantinos Kouroumpatzakis

We address the problem of morphological classification of galaxies from the Galaxy Zoo DECaLS dataset using classical machine learning techniques. Our approach employs a dimensionality reduction method followed by a classical classifier to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-23 Vasyl Semenov , Vitalii Tymchyshyn , Volodymyr Bezguba , Maksym Tsizh , Andrii Khlevniuk

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…

Galaxy morphology, a key tracer of the evolution of a galaxy's physical structure, has motivated extensive research on machine learning techniques for efficient and accurate galaxy classification. The emergence of quantum computers has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-08 Mohammad Hassan Hassanshahi , Marcin Jastrzebski , Sarah Malik , Ofer Lahav

We use the Galaxy Morphology Posterior Estimation Network (GaMPEN) to estimate morphological parameters and associated uncertainties for $\sim 8$ million galaxies in the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Wide survey with $z \leq 0.75$ and $m \leq…

Mass loss is a key aspect of stellar evolution, particularly in evolved massive stars, yet episodic mass loss remains poorly understood. To investigate this, we need evolved massive stellar populations across various galactic environments.…

We describe an image analysis supervised learning algorithm that can automatically classify galaxy images. The algorithm is first trained using a manually classified images of elliptical, spiral, and edge-on galaxies. A large set of image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Lior Shamir

The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is a project to map $\sim9300$ sq deg of the sky using twelve bands (seven narrow and five broadbands). Observations are performed with the T80-South telescope, a robotic telescope…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-31 Fabio R. Herpich , Felipe Almeida-Fernandes , Gustavo B. Oliveira Schwarz , Erik V. R. Lima , Lilianne Nakazono , Javier Alonso-García , Marcos A. Fonseca-Faria , Marilia J. Sartori , Guilherme F. Bolutavicius , Gabriel Fabiano de Souza , Eduardo A. Hartmann , Liana Li , Luna Espinosa , Antonio Kanaan , William Schoenell , Ariel Werle , Eduardo Machado-Pereira , Luis A. Gutiérrez-Soto , Thaís Santos-Silva , Analia V. Smith Castelli , Eduardo A. D. Lacerda , Cassio L. Barbosa , Hélio D. Perottoni , Carlos E. Ferreira Lopes , Raquel Ruiz Valença , Pierre Augusto Re Martho , Clecio R. Bom , Charles J. Bonatto , Maiara S. Carvalho , Vitor Cernic , Roberto Cid Fernandes , Paula Coelho , Ariana Cortesi , Barbara Cubillos Palma , Lia Doubrawa , Vincenzo Sivero Ferreira Alberice , Fredi Quispe Huaynasi , Gabriel Jacob Perin , Marcelo Jaque Arancibia , Angela Krabbe , Ciria Lima-Dias , Luis Lomelí-Núñez , Raimundo Lopes de Oliveira , Amanda R. Lopes , André Luiz Figueiredo , Elismar Lösch , Felipe Navarete , Julia Mello de Oliveira , Roderik Overzier , Vinicius M. Placco , Fernando V. Roig , Mariana Rubet , André Santos , Victor Hugo Sasse , Julia Thaina-Batista , Sergio Torres-Flores , Timothy C. Beers , Alvaro Alvarez-Candal , Stavros Akras , Swayamtrupta Panda , Guilherme Limberg , José Luis Nilo Castellón , Eduardo Telles , Paulo Afranio Lopes , Gissel Dayana Pardo Montaguth , Leandro Beraldo e Silva , Pedro K. Humire , Marcelo Borges Fernandes , Vinícius Cordeiro , Tiago Ribeiro , Claudia Mendes de Oliveira

We propose a new method to estimate the photometric redshift of galaxies by using the full galaxy image in each measured band. This method draws from the latest techniques and advances in machine learning, in particular Deep Neural…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-16 Ben Hoyle

In the era of large sky surveys, photometric redshifts (photo-z) represent crucial information for galaxy evolution and cosmology studies. In this work, we propose a new Machine Learning (ML) tool called Galaxy morphoto-Z with neural…

Accurate estimation of photometric redshifts (photo-$z$s) is crucial for cosmological surveys. Various methods have been developed for this purpose, such as template fitting methods and machine learning techniques, each with its own…

We study the potential of weak lensing surveys to detect clusters of galaxies, using a fast Particle Mesh cosmological N-body simulation algorithm specifically tailored to investigate the statistics of these mass-selected clusters. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joseph F. Hennawi , David N. Spergel

Traditional photometric redshift methods use only color information about the objects in question to estimate their redshifts. This paper introduces a new method utilizing colors, luminosity, surface brightness, and radial light profile to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James J. Wray , James E. Gunn

We present a supervised neural network approach to the determination of photometric redshifts. The method was tuned to match the characteristics of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and it exploits the spectroscopic redshifts provided by this…