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We propose the use of group convolutional neural network architectures (GCNNs) equivariant to the 2D Euclidean group, $E(2)$, for the task of galaxy morphology classification by utilizing symmetries of the data present in galaxy images as…

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Galaxy groups are essential for studying the distribution of matter on a large scale in redshift surveys and for deciphering the link between galaxy traits and their associated halos. In this work, we propose a widely applicable method for…

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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…

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

Quantifying the morphology of galaxies has been an important task in astrophysics to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. In recent years, the data size has been dramatically increasing due to several on-going and upcoming…

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We present a catalog of visual like H-band morphologies of $\sim50.000$ galaxies ($H_{f160w}<24.5$) in the 5 CANDELS fields (GOODS-N, GOODS-S, UDS, EGS and COSMOS). Morphologies are estimated with Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets).…

We present an application of Mathematical Morphology (MM) for the classification of astronomical objects, both for star/galaxy differentiation and galaxy morphology classification. We demonstrate that, for CCD images, 99.3 +/- 3.8 % of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Jason A. Moore , Kevin A. Pimbblet , Michael J. Drinkwater

One of the major challenges in astronomy involves accurately classifying galaxies, particularly distinguishing between different galaxy types. While many complex algorithms have shown strong performance in classification tasks, their…

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We use automated surface photometry and pattern classification techniques to morphologically classify galaxies. The two-dimensional light distribution of a galaxy is reconstructed using Fourier series fits to azimuthal profiles computed in…

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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

In this work, we update the unsupervised machine learning (UML) step by proposing an algorithm based on ConvNeXt large model coding to improve the efficiency of unlabeled galaxy morphology classifications. The method can be summarized into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-03 Guanwen Fang , Yao Dai , Zesen Lin , Chichun Zhou , Jie Song , Yizhou Gu , Xiaotong Guo , Anqi Mao , Xu Kong

The morphological diversity of galaxies is a relevant probe of galaxy evolution and cosmological structure formation, but the classification of galaxies in large sky surveys is becoming a significant challenge. We use data from the…

We present Galaxy Zoo DECaLS: detailed visual morphological classifications for Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey images of galaxies within the SDSS DR8 footprint. Deeper DECaLS images (r=23.6 vs. r=22.2 from SDSS) reveal spiral arms, weak…

We train deep learning models on thousands of galaxy catalogues from the state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of the CAMELS project to perform regression and inference. We employ Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), architectures designed to…

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Most existing star-galaxy classifiers depend on the reduced information from catalogs, necessitating careful data processing and feature extraction. In this study, we employ a supervised machine learning method (GoogLeNet) to automatically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-23 Shiliang Zhang , Guanwen Fang , Jie Song , Ran Li , Yizhou Gu , Zesen Lin , Chichun Zhou , Yao Dai , Xu Kong

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 train Artificial Neural Networks to classify galaxies based solely on the morphology of the galaxy images as they appear on blue survey plates. The images are reduced and morphological features such as bulge size and the number of arms…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Naim , O. Lahav , L. Sodre , M. C. Storrie-Lombardi

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…