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Reproducing color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of star-resolved galaxies is one of the most precise methods for measuring the star formation history (SFH) of nearby galaxies back to the earliest time. The upcoming big data era poses challenges…

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Retrieving the Star Formation History (SFH) of a galaxy out of its integrated spectrum is the central goal of stellar population synthesis. Recent advances in evolutionary synthesis models have given new breath to this old field of…

Machine Learning algorithms are good tools for both classification and prediction purposes. These algorithms can further be used for scientific discoveries from the enormous data being collected in our era. We present ways of discovering…

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The star formation history (SFH) of galaxies allow us to investigate when galaxies formed their stars and assembled their mass. We can constrain the SFH with high level of precision from galaxies with resolved stellar populations, since we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-18 Maria Argudo-Fernández , Médéric Boquien , Shiyin Shen , Fangting Yuan , Jun Yin , Ruixiang Chang , Lei Hao

Standard supervised machine learning assumes that the distribution of the source samples used to train an algorithm is the same as the one of the target samples on which it is supposed to make predictions. However, as any data scientist…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Pirmin Lemberger , Ivan Panico

Constraining the star formation histories (SFHs) of individual galaxies is crucial to understanding the mechanisms that regulate their evolution. Here, we combine multi-wavelength (ultraviolet, optical, and infrared) measurements of a very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 Camilla Pacifici , Sree Oh , Kyuseok Oh , Jaehyun Lee , Sukyoung K. Yi

Understanding the star-formation properties of galaxies as a function of cosmic epoch is a critical exercise in studies of galaxy evolution. Traditionally, stellar population synthesis models have been used to obtain best fit parameters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 Shraddha Surana , Yogesh Wadadekar , Omkar Bait , Hrushikesh Bhosle

We present a new method for inferring galaxy star formation histories (SFH) using machine learning methods coupled with two cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. We train Convolutional Neural Networks to learn the relationship between…

Global Stellar Formation Rates or SFRs are crucial to constrain theories of galaxy formation and evolution. SFR's are usually estimated via spectroscopic observations which require too much previous telescope time and therefore cannot match…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-24 Michele Delli Veneri , Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Riccio , Giuseppe Longo

We discuss how to achieve mapping from large sets of imperfect simulations and observational data with unsupervised domain adaptation. Under the hypothesis that simulated and observed data distributions share a common underlying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Teaghan O'Briain , Yuan-Sen Ting , Sébastien Fabbro , Kwang M. Yi , Kim Venn , Spencer Bialek

The major challenge in today's computer vision scenario is the availability of good quality labeled data. In a field of study like image classification, where data is of utmost importance, we need to find more reliable methods which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Aashish Dhawan , Divyanshu Mudgal

Structural properties posses valuable information about the formation and evolution of galaxies, and are important for understanding the past, present, and future universe. Here we use unsupervised machine learning methodology to analyze a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-26 Andrew Schutter , Lior Shamir

A new method of determining galaxy star-formation histories (SFHs) is presented. Using the method, the feasibility of recovering SFHs with multi-band photometry is investigated. The method divides a galaxy's history into discrete time…

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Machine learning is driven by data, yet while their availability is constantly increasing, training data require laborious, time consuming and error-prone labelling or ground truth acquisition, which in some cases is very difficult or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Vasileios Gkitsas , Antonis Karakottas , Nikolaos Zioulis , Dimitrios Zarpalas , Petros Daras

We aim to determine some physical properties of distant galaxies (for example, stellar mass, star formation history, or chemical enrichment history) from their observed spectra, using supervised machine learning methods. We know that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Viviana Acquaviva , Chistopher Lovell , Emille Ishida

Strong constraints on the cosmic star formation history (SFH) have recently been established using ultraviolet and far-infrared measurements, refining the results of numerous measurements over the past decade. Taken together, the most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew M. Hopkins

Star Formation Rates or SFRs are crucial to constrain theories of galaxy formation and evolution. SFRs are usually estimated via spectroscopic observations requiring large amounts of telescope time. We explore an alternative approach based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-07 M. Delli Veneri , S. Cavuoti , M. Brescia , G. Longo , G. Riccio

If we are to develop a comprehensive and predictive theory of galaxy formation and evolution, it is essential that we obtain an accurate assessment of how and when galaxies assemble their stellar populations, and how this assembly varies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-02-18 Thomas M. Brown , Marc Postman , Daniela Calzetti

Understanding the diversity of star formation histories (SFHs) of galaxies is key to reconstructing their evolutionary paths. Traditional models often assume parametric forms such as delayed-tau or exponentially declining models, which may…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-31 Robin Eappen , Pavel Kroupa

Panchromatic spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting is a critical tool for determining the physical properties of distant galaxies, such as their stellar mass and star formation rate. One widely used method is the publicly available…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 Daniel J. B. Smith , Christopher C. Hayward
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