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Machine learning (ML) techniques, in particular supervised regression algorithms, are a promising new way to use multiple observables to predict a cluster's mass or other key features. To investigate this approach we use the \textsc{MACSIS}…

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Stellar astrophysics relies on diverse observational modalities-primarily photometric light curves and spectroscopic data from which fundamental stellar properties are inferred. While machine learning (ML) has advanced analysis within…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 Ilay Kamai , Alex M. Bronstein , Hagai B. Perets

Unsupervised machine learning, and in particular data clustering, is a powerful approach for the analysis of datasets and identification of characteristic features occurring throughout a dataset. It is gaining popularity across scientific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Maria El Abbassi , Jan Overbeck , Oliver Braun , Michel Calame , Herre S. J. van der Zant , Mickael L. Perrin

Most existing star-galaxy classifiers use the reduced summary information from catalogs, requiring careful feature extraction and selection. The latest advances in machine learning that use deep convolutional neural networks allow a machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 Edward J. Kim , Robert J. Brunner

Forthcoming surveys such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) and Euclid necessitate automatic and efficient identification methods of strong lensing systems. We present a strong lensing identification approach that utilizes a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Camille Avestruz , Nan Li , Hanjue Zhu , Matthew Lightman , Thomas E. Collett , Wentao Luo

A detailed study of stellar populations in Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxies remains an observational challenge due to their faintness and fewer spectroscopically confirmed member stars. We use unsupervised machine learning methods to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Devika K Divakar , Pallavi Saraf , Sivarani Thirupathi , Vijayakumar H Doddamani

We present a photometric method for identifying stars, galaxies and quasars in multi-color surveys, which uses a library of >65000 color templates. The method aims for extracting the information content of object colors in a statistically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 C. Wolf , K. Meisenheimer , H. -J. Röser

The Pan-STARRS1 survey is obtaining multi-epoch imaging in 5 bands (gps rps ips zps yps) over the entire sky North of declination -30deg. We describe here the implementation of the Photometric Classification Server (PCS) for Pan-STARRS1.…

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) aims to map the universe across an unprecedented dynamic range of stellar densities, spanning from extragalactic voids to the crowded Galactic center (e.g. a few stars and galaxies in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jinzhi Lai , Man I Lam , Jianjun Chen , Xin Zhang , Hao Tian , Xiaohan Chen , Jialu Nie , Ming Yang , Chao Liu

The study of machine learning (ML) techniques for the autonomous classification of astrophysical sources is of great interest, and we explore its applications in the context of a multifrequency data-frame. We test the use of supervised ML…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Bruno Arsioli , Pedro Dedin

Classification of young stellar objects (YSOs) into different evolutionary stages helps us to understand the formation process of new stars and planetary systems. Such classification has traditionally been based on spectral energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 Oskari Miettinen

In this paper, the fourth version the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-4), Data Release 16 dataset was used to classify the SDSS dataset into galaxies, stars, and quasars using machine learning and deep learning architectures. We efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Sabeesh Ethiraj , Bharath Kumar Bolla

We present a novel unsupervised learning approach to automatically segment and label images in astronomical surveys. Automation of this procedure will be essential as next-generation surveys enter the petabyte scale: data volumes will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-08 Alex Hocking , James E. Geach , Neil Davey , Yi Sun

Cosmic shear is a primary cosmological probe for several present and upcoming surveys investigating dark matter and dark energy, such as Euclid or WFIRST. The probe requires an extremely accurate measurement of the shapes of millions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-04 Malte Tewes , Thibault Kuntzer , Reiko Nakajima , Frédéric Courbin , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Tim Schrabback

Deep learning has proven to be a very effective approach for Hyperspectral Image (HSI) classification. However, deep neural networks require large annotated datasets to generalize well. This limits the applicability of deep learning for HSI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Nassim Ait Ali Braham , Lichao Mou , Jocelyn Chanussot , Julien Mairal , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Using the 'k-means' cluster analysis algorithm, we carry out an unsupervised classification of all galaxy spectra in the seventh and final Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release (SDSS/DR7). Except for the shift to restframe wavelengths, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-16 J. Sanchez Almeida , J. A. L. Aguerri , C. Munoz-Tunon , A. de Vicente

(abridged) Mass loss is a key parameter in the evolution of massive stars, with discrepancies between theory and observations and with unknown importance of the episodic mass loss. To address this we need increased numbers of classified…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Grigoris Maravelias , Alceste Z. Bonanos , Frank Tramper , Stephan de Wit , Ming Yang , Paolo Bonfini

We present a machine learning (ML) pipeline to identify star clusters in the multi{color images of nearby galaxies, from observations obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Treasury Project LEGUS (Legacy ExtraGalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 Gustavo Perez , Matteo Messa , Daniela Calzetti , Subhransu Maji , Dooseok Jung , Angela Adamo , Mattia Siressi

Galaxy morphology reflects structural properties which contribute to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. Deep convolutional networks have proven to be very successful in learning hidden features that allow for unprecedented…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Shoulin Wei , Yadi Li , Wei Lu , Nan Li , Bo Liang , Wei Dai , Zhijian Zhang

Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification is an important task in many applications, such as environmental monitoring, medical imaging, and land use/land cover (LULC) classification. Due to the significant amount of spectral information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Sertac Kilickaya , Mete Ahishali , Fahad Sohrab , Turker Ince , Moncef Gabbouj