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The detection of gravitational waves has inaugurated the era of gravitational astronomy and opened new avenues for the multimessenger study of cosmic sources. Thanks to their sensitivity, the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo interferometers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-05 Massimiliano Razzano , Elena Cuoco

The advent of next-generation telescope facilities brings with it an unprecedented amount of data, and the demand for effective tools to process and classify this information has become increasingly important. This work proposes a novel…

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

The increasing field of view of radio telescopes and improved data processing capabilities have led to a surge in the detection of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). The discovery rate of FRBs is already a few per day and is expected to increase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Ajay Kumar , Ashish A. Mahabal , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar

Galaxy morphologies and their relation with physical properties have been a relevant subject of study in the past. Most galaxy morphology catalogs have been labelled by human annotators or by machine learning models trained on human…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-23 Esteban Medina-Rosales , Guillermo Cabrera-Vives , Christopher J. Miller

The dynamical evolution and radiative properties of luminous radio galaxies and quasars of the FRII type, are well understood. As a result, through the use of detailed modeling of the observed radio emission of such sources, one can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Anna Wojtowicz , Lukasz Stawarz , Jerzy Machalski , Luisa Ostorero

Most methods for time series classification that attain state-of-the-art accuracy have high computational complexity, requiring significant training time even for smaller datasets, and are intractable for larger datasets. Additionally, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Angus Dempster , François Petitjean , Geoffrey I. Webb

We consider the problem of determining the host galaxies of radio sources by cross-identification. This has traditionally been done manually, which will be intractable for wide-area radio surveys like the Evolutionary Map of the Universe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-18 M. J. Alger , J. K. Banfield , C. S. Ong , L. Rudnick , O. I. Wong , C. Wolf , H. Andernach , R. P. Norris , S. S. Shabala

To understand the feedback of black holes on their environment or the acceleration of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in the present cosmic epoch, a systematic, all-sky inventory of radio galaxies in the local universe is needed. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-23 Sjoert van Velzen , Heino Falcke , Pim Schellart , Nils Nierstenhoefer , Karl-Heinz Kampert

Over the next few years new spectroscopic surveys (from the optical surveys of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the 2 degree Field survey through to space-based ultraviolet satellites such as GALEX) will provide the opportunity and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. J. Connolly , A. S. Szalay

Building on our previous work, we apply a U-Net Variational Autoencoder (VAE) framework to denoise galaxy images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and enhance morphological classification. This study focuses on galaxies observed up…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Sergey Mirzoyan

The goal of this work is to determine the nature of the relation between morphology and accretion mode in radio galaxies, including environmental parameters. The CoNFIG extended catalogue (improved by new Ks-band identifications and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Melanie A. Gendre , P. N. Best , J. V. Wall , L. M. Ker

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 possibility of radio galaxies being random sample of otherwise normal elliptical galaxies is tested. Starting with the observed optical luminosity functions for elliptical galaxies, it is shown that the probability of an elliptical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Riccardo Scarpa , C. Megan Urry

We describe the application of the `shapelet' linear decomposition of galaxy images to multi-wavelength morphological classification using the $u,g,r,i,$ and $z$-band images of 1519 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We utilize…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. C. Kelly , T. A. McKay

The correlation between a galaxy's morphology and its observed optical spectrum is investigated. As an example, 4000 galaxies from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, which possess both good quality spectra and have visually determined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Darren S. Madgwick

[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…

The two-step galaxy morphology classification framework {\tt USmorph} successfully combines unsupervised machine learning (UML) with supervised machine learning (SML) methods. To enhance the UML step, we employed a dual-encoder architecture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Xiaolei Yin , Guanwen Fang , Shiying Lu , Zesen Lin , Yao Dai , Chichun Zhou

Deep learning methods achieve great success in many areas due to their powerful feature extraction capabilities and end-to-end training mechanism, and recently they are also introduced for radio signal modulation classification. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Zhuangzhi Chen , Hui Cui , Jingyang Xiang , Kunfeng Qiu , Liang Huang , Shilian Zheng , Shichuan Chen , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang