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We propose a variant of residual networks (ResNets) for galaxy morphology classification. The variant, together with other popular convolutional neural networks (CNNs), are applied to a sample of 28790 galaxy images from Galaxy Zoo 2…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Jia-Ming Dai , Jizhou Tong

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…

Generation of science-ready data from processed data products is one of the major challenges in next-generation radio continuum surveys with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its precursors, due to the expected data volume and the need…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-26 S. Riggi , G. Umana , C. Trigilio , C. Bordiu , F. Bufano , A. Ingallinera , F. Cavallaro , Y. Gordon , R. P. Norris , G. Gürkan , P. Leto , C. Buemi , S. Loru , A. M. Hopkins , M. D. Filipović , T. Cecconello

The CoNFIG (Combined NVSS-FIRST Galaxies) sample is a new sample of 274 bright radio sources at 1.4 GHz. It was defined by selecting all sources with S_1.4GHz > 1.3 Jy from the NRAO-VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) in the North field of the Faint…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. A. Gendre , J. V. Wall

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

Remnant radio galaxies represent the dying phase of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN). Large samples of remnant radio galaxies are important for quantifying the radio galaxy life cycle. The remnants of radio-loud AGN can be identified…

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

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

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

With the growth of data from new radio telescope facilities, machine-learning approaches to the morphological classification of radio galaxies are increasingly being utilised. However, while widely employed deep-learning models using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 Natalie E. P. Lines , Joan Font-Quer Roset , Anna M. M. Scaife

Classifying the morphologies of galaxies is an important step in understanding their physical properties and evolutionary histories. The advent of large-scale surveys has hastened the need to develop techniques for automated morphological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-28 Mitchell K. Cavanagh , Kenji Bekki , Brent A. Groves

We conducted an extensive identification and analysis of various morphological classes and subclasses of radio galaxies using the latest high-resolution data from the second data release of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS DR2). This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-29 Soumen Kumar Bera , Taotao Fang , Tapan K. Sasmal , M. Kunert-Bajraszewska , Xuelei Chen , Soumen Mondal

Unknown class distributions in unlabelled astrophysical training data have previously been shown to detrimentally affect model performance due to dataset shift between training and validation sets. For radio galaxy classification, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-19 Inigo Val Slijepcevic , Anna M. M. Scaife , Mike Walmsley , Micah Bowles

With the advent of powerful telescopes such as the Square Kilometer Array and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, we are entering an era of multiwavelength transient astronomy that will lead to a dramatic increase in data volume. Machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-09 K. Sooknunan , M. Lochner , Bruce A. Bassett , H. V. Peiris , R. Fender , A. J. Stewart , M. Pietka , P. A. Woudt , J. D. McEwen , O. Lahav

This paper follows series of our works on the applicability of various machine learning methods to the morphological galaxy classification (Vavilova et al., 2021, 2022). We exploited the sample of 315776 SDSS DR9 galaxies with absolute…

The morphology of a radio galaxy is highly affected by its central active galactic nuclei (AGN), which is studied to reveal the evolution of the super massive black hole (SMBH). In this work, we propose a morphology generation framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Zhixian Ma , Jie Zhu , Weitian Li , Haiguang Xu

We present a multiwavelength radio study of a sample of nearby Fanaroff-Riley class II (FRII) radio galaxies, matched with the sample of known X-shaped radio sources in size, morphological properties and redshift, using new Giant Metrewave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dharam Vir Lal , Martin J. Hardcastle , Ralph P. Kraft

We have observed a sample of 13 large, powerful Fanaroff-Riley type II radio galaxies with the Very Large Array in multiple configurations and at multiple frequencies. We have combined our measurements of spectral indices, rotation measures…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Kharb , C. O'Dea , S. Baum , R. Daly , M. Mory , M. Donahue , E. Guerra

We present a classification of galaxies in the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) 3$\pi$ survey based on their recent star formation history and morphology. Specifically, we train and test two Random Forest (RF) classifiers using photometric features…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 A. Baldeschi , A. Miller , M. Stroh , R. Margutti , D. L. Coppejans

We have undertaken a systematic study of FRI and FRII radio galaxies with the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) and MeerKAT. The main goal is to explore whether the unprecedented few $\mu$Jy sensitivity reached in the range…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-01 B. Fanaroff , D. V. Lal , T. Venturi , O. Smirnov , M. Bondi , K. Thorat , L. Bester , G. Jozsa , D. Kleiner , F. Loi , S. Makhathini , S. V. White