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We present the application of deep machine learning technique to classify radio images of extended sources on a morphological basis using convolutional neural networks. In this study, we have taken the case of Fanaroff-Riley (FR) class of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Arun Aniyan , Kshitij Thorat

Machine learning techniques have been increasingly used in astronomical applications and have proven to successfully classify objects in image data with high accuracy. The current work uses archival data from the Faint Images of the Radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-02 Viera Maslej-Krešňáková , Khadija El Bouchefry , Peter Butka

Upcoming surveys with new radio observatories such as the Square Kilometer Array will generate a wealth of imaging data containing large numbers of radio galaxies. Different classes of radio galaxies can be used as tracers of the cosmic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-30 Wathela Alhassan , A. R. Taylor , Mattia Vaccari

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

Classifying the morphologies of radio galaxies is important to understand their physical properties and evolutionary histories. A galaxy's morphology is often determined by visual inspection, but as survey size increases robust automated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 Emma Tolley

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

In the context of radio galaxy classification, most state-of-the-art neural network algorithms have been focused on single survey data. The question of whether these trained algorithms have cross-survey identification ability or can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Hongming Tang , Anna M. M. Scaife , J. P. Leahy

Modern radio telescope surveys, capable of detecting billions of galaxies in wide-field surveys, have made manual morphological classification impracticable. This applies in particular when the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-09 Philipp Denzel , Manuel Weiss , Elena Gavagnin , Frank-Peter Schilling

Machine learning techniques have been increasingly useful in astronomical applications over the last few years, for example in the morphological classification of galaxies. Convolutional neural networks have proven to be highly effective in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 V. Lukic , M. Brüggen , J. K. Banfield , O. I. Wong , L. Rudnick , R. P. Norris , B. Simmons

Machine learning techniques that perform morphological classification of astronomical sources often suffer from a scarcity of labelled training data. Here, we focus on the case of supervised deep learning models for the morphological…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-16 Lennart Rustige , Janis Kummer , Florian Griese , Kerstin Borras , Marcus Brüggen , Patrick L. S. Connor , Frank Gaede , Gregor Kasieczka , Tobias Knopp , Peter Schleper

Radio galaxies exhibit a rich diversity of characteristics and emit radio emissions through a variety of radiation mechanisms, making their classification into distinct types based on morphology a complex challenge. To address this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-01 Steven Ndungu , Trienko Grobler , Stefan J. Wijnholds Dimka Karastoyanova , George Azzopardi

Novel techniques are indispensable to process the flood of data from the new generation of radio telescopes. In particular, the classification of astronomical sources in images is challenging. Morphological classification of radio galaxies…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-10 Janis Kummer , Lennart Rustige , Florian Griese , Kerstin Borras , Marcus Brüggen , Patrick L. S. Connor , Frank Gaede , Gregor Kasieczka , Peter Schleper

The morphology of radio galaxies is indicative of their interaction with their surroundings, among other effects. Since modern radio surveys contain a large number of radio sources that would be impossible to analyse and classify manually,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-16 Nicolas Baron Perez , Marcus Brüggen , Gregor Kasieczka , Luisa Lucie-Smith

The taxonomy of galaxy morphology is critical in astrophysics as the morphological properties are powerful tracers of galaxy evolution. With the upcoming Large-scale Imaging Surveys, billions of galaxy images challenge astronomers to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Zhirui Zhang , Zhiqiang Zou , Nan Li , Yanli Chen

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…

We present a morphological classification of 14,245 radio active galactic nuclei (AGNs) into six types, i.e., typical Fanaroff--Riley Class I / II (FRI/II), FRI/II-like bent-tailed, X-shaped radio galaxy, and ringlike radio galaxy, by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 Zhixian Ma , Haiguang Xu , Jie Zhu , Dan Hu , Weitian Li , Chenxi Shan , Zhenghao Zhu , Liyi Gu , Jinjin Li , Chengze Liu , Xiangping Wu

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

Out of the estimated few trillion galaxies, only around a million have been detected through radio frequencies, and only a tiny fraction, approximately a thousand, have been manually classified. We have addressed this disparity between…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Mir Sazzat Hossain , Sugandha Roy , K. M. B. Asad , Arshad Momen , Amin Ahsan Ali , M Ashraful Amin , A. K. M. Mahbubur Rahman

The radio astronomy community is rapidly adopting deep learning techniques to deal with the huge data volumes expected from the next generation of radio observatories. Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) provide a principled way to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Devina Mohan , Anna M. M. Scaife

Morphologically classifying radio sources in continuum images with the SKA has the potential to address some of the key questions in cosmology and galaxy evolution. In particular, we may use different classes of radio sources as independent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-19 Sphesihle Makhathini , Oleg Smirnov , Matt Jarvis , Ian Heywood
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