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We apply a machine learning algorithm, the artificial neural network, to the search for gravitational-wave signals associated with short gamma-ray bursts. The multi-dimensional samples consisting of data corresponding to the statistical and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-26 Kyungmin Kim , Ian W. Harry , Kari A. Hodge , Young-Min Kim , Chang-Hwan Lee , Hyun Kyu Lee , John J. Oh , Sang Hoon Oh , Edwin J. Son

Gravitational lensing is the deflection of light rays due to the gravity of intervening masses. This phenomenon is observed in a variety of scales and configurations, involving any non-uniform mass such as planets, stars, galaxies, clusters…

With the advent of next-generation surveys and the expectation of discovering huge numbers of strong gravitational lens systems, much effort is being invested into developing automated procedures for handling the data. The several orders of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Jacob Maresca , Simon Dye , Nan Li

In the field of pattern recognition research, the method of using deep neural networks based on improved computing hardware recently attracted attention because of their superior accuracy compared to conventional methods. Deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Kyongsik Yun , Alexander Huyen , Thomas Lu

Strong gravitational lensing at the galaxy scale is a valuable tool for various applications in astrophysics and cosmology. The primary uses of galaxy-scale lensing are to study elliptical galaxies' mass structure and evolution, constrain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-08 A. J. Shajib , G. Vernardos , T. E. Collett , V. Motta , D. Sluse , L. L. R. Williams , P. Saha , S. Birrer , C. Spiniello , T. Treu

We present the results of our pipeline for discovering strong gravitational lenses in the ongoing Ultraviolet Near-Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS). We successfully train the deep residual neural network (ResNet) based on…

We explore how information in images of nearby galaxies can be used to estimate their distance. We train a convolutional Neural Network (NN) to do this, using galaxy images from the Illustris simulation. We show that if the NN is trained on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-21 Kevin M. Quigley , Samuel Hori , Rupert A. C. Croft

The classification of galaxies as spirals or ellipticals is a crucial task in understanding their formation and evolution. With the arrival of large-scale astronomical surveys, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), astronomers now…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Anusha Guruprasad

Convolutional Neutral Networks have been successfully applied in searching for strong lensing systems, leading to discoveries of new candidates from large surveys. On the other hand, systematic investigations about their robustness are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Zizhao He , Xinzhong Er , Qian Long , Dezi Liu , Xiangkun Liu , Ziwei Li , Yun Liu , Wenqaing Deng , Zuhui Fan

Machine learning, and eventually true artificial intelligence techniques, are extremely important advancements in astrophysics and astronomy. We explore the application of deep learning using neural networks in order to automate the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-29 James Bird , Kellan Colburn , Linda Petzold , Philip Lubin

Gravitational lensing is the phenomenon arising when light rays are deflected by the mass between the source and the observer. Largely magnified and highly distorted images of background galaxies are formed by these angular deflections if…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Atınç Çağan Şengül

Gravitational lensing is brightening of background objects due to deflection of light by foreground sources. Rich clusters of galaxies are very effective lenses because they are centrally concentrated. Such natural Gravitational Telescopes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Margarita Safonova

Machine learning is a field that has been growing in importance since the early 2010s due to the increasing accuracy of classification models and hardware advances that have enabled faster training on large datasets. In the field of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Alexis Mathis , Daniel Yu , Nolan Faught , Tyrian Hobbs.

We describe an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach to classification of galaxy images and spectra. ANNs can replicate the classification of galaxy images by a human expert to the same degree of agreement as that between two human…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ofer Lahav

A new generation of sky surveys is poised to provide unprecedented volumes of data containing hundreds of thousands of new strong lensing systems in the coming years. Convolutional neural networks are currently the only state-of-the-art…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-12 Ronan Legin , Connor Stone , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

We present a systematic comparison of three independent machine learning (ML)-based searches for strong gravitational lenses applied to the Dark Energy Survey (Jacobs et al. 2019a,b; Rojas et al. 2022; Gonzalez et al. 2025). Each search…

Galactic sized gravitational lenses are simulated by combining a cosmological N-body simulation and models for the baryonic component of the galaxy. The lens caustics, critical curves, image locations and magnification ratios are calculated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Adam Amara , R. Benton Metcalf , Thomas J. Cox , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We demonstrate the potential of Deep Learning methods for measurements of cosmological parameters from density fields, focusing on the extraction of non-Gaussian information. We consider weak lensing mass maps as our dataset. We aim for our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Jorit Schmelzle , Aurelien Lucchi , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Raphael Sgier , Alexandre Réfrégier , Thomas Hofmann

Dark matter structures within strong gravitational lens galaxies and along their line of sight leave a gravitational imprint on the multiple images of lensed sources. Strong gravitational lensing provides, therefore, a key test of different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 S. Vegetti , S. Birrer , G. Despali , C. D. Fassnacht , D. Gilman , Y. Hezaveh , L. Perreault Levasseur , J. P. McKean , D. M. Powell , C. M. O'Riordan , G. Vernardos

In this paper, we examine the strength of deep learning technique for diagnosing lung cancer on medical image analysis problem. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) models become popular among the pattern recognition and computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Mehdi Fatan Serj , Bahram Lavi , Gabriela Hoff , Domenec Puig Valls