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We propose a new method to estimate the photometric redshift of galaxies by using the full galaxy image in each measured band. This method draws from the latest techniques and advances in machine learning, in particular Deep Neural…

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We consider a machine learning algorithm to detect and identify strong gravitational lenses on sky images. First, we simulate different artificial but very close to reality images of galaxies, stars and strong lenses, using six different…

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The Sunyaev-Zel'dolvich (SZ) effect is expected to be instrumental in measuring velocities of distant clusters in near future telescope surveys. We simplify the calculation of peculiar velocities of galaxy clusters using deep learning…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Yuyu Wang , Nesar Ramachandra , Edgar M. Salazar-Canizales , Hume A. Feldman , Richard Watkins , Klaus Dolag

We present a systematic search for wide-separation (Einstein radius >1.5"), galaxy-scale strong lenses in the 30 000 sq.deg of the Pan-STARRS 3pi survey on the Northern sky. With long time delays of a few days to weeks, such systems are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-08 R. Canameras , S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , S. Taubenberger , T. Meinhardt , L. Leal-Taixe , C. Lemon , K. Rojas , E. Savary

With the advancement of technology, machine learning-based analytical methods have pervaded nearly every discipline in modern studies. Particularly, a number of methods have been employed to estimate the redshift of gamma-ray loud active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Sarvesh Gharat , Abhimanyu Borthakur , Gopal Bhatta

As a consequence of galaxy clustering, close galaxies observed on the plane of the sky should be spatially correlated with a probability that is inversely proportional to their angular separation. In principle, this information can be used…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 F. Tosone , M. S. Cagliari , L. Guzzo , B. R. Granett , A. Crespi

The new generation of deep photometric surveys requires unprecedentedly precise shape and photometry measurements of billions of galaxies to achieve their main science goals. At such depths, one major limiting factor is the blending of…

We present a new neural network approach for deblending galaxy images in astronomical data using Residual Dense Neural network (RDN) architecture. We train the network on synthetic galaxy images similar to the typical arrangements of field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-12 Hong Wang , Sreevarsha Sreejith , Anže Slosar , Yuewei Lin , Shinjae Yoo

We present results exploring the role that probabilistic deep learning models can play in cosmology from large scale astronomical surveys through estimating the distances to galaxies (redshifts) from photometry. Due to the massive scale of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Evan Jones , Tuan Do , Bernie Boscoe , Yujie Wan , Zooey Nguyen , Jack Singal

We present an analysis of anomaly detection for machine learning redshift estimation. Anomaly detection allows the removal of poor training examples, which can adversely influence redshift estimates. Anomalous training examples may be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-16 Ben Hoyle , Markus Michael Rau , Kerstin Paech , Christopher Bonnett , Stella Seitz , Jochen Weller

A new approach to estimating photometric redshifts - using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) - is investigated. Unlike the standard template-fitting photometric redshift technique, a large spectroscopically-identified training set is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew E. Firth , Ofer Lahav , Rachel S. Somerville

We demonstrate the ability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to mitigate systematics in the virial scaling relation and produce dynamical mass estimates of galaxy clusters with remarkably low bias and scatter. We present two models,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Matthew Ho , Markus Michael Rau , Michelle Ntampaka , Arya Farahi , Hy Trac , Barnabas Poczos

We present our results from training and evaluating a convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict galaxy shapes from wide-field survey images of the first data release of the Dark Energy Survey (DES DR1). We use conventional shape…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Dezső Ribli , László Dobos , István Csabai

We train deep learning models on thousands of galaxy catalogues from the state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of the CAMELS project to perform regression and inference. We employ Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), architectures designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-10 Pablo Villanueva-Domingo , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Galaxy peculiar velocities can be used to trace the growth of structure on cosmological scales. In the radial direction, peculiar velocities cause redshift space distortions, an established cosmological probe, and can be measured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Iain Duncan , David Alonso , Anže Slosar , Kate Storey-Fisher

In this paper, we address the problem of spectroscopic redshift estimation in Astronomy. Due to the expansion of the Universe, galaxies recede from each other on average. This movement causes the emitted electromagnetic waves to shift from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-27 Radamanthys Stivaktakis , Grigorios Tsagkatakis , Bruno Moraes , Filipe Abdalla , Jean-Luc Starck , Panagiotis Tsakalides

For a galaxy, given its observed rotation curve, can one directly infer parameters of the dark matter density profile (such as dark matter particle mass $m$, scaling parameter $s$, core-to-envelope transition radius $r_t$ and NFW scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Bihag Dave , Gaurav Goswami

We derive peculiar velocities for the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) and describe the velocity field of the nearby ($z<0.055$) southern hemisphere. The survey comprises 8885 galaxies for which we have previously reported Fundamental Plane data.…

We apply machine learning in the form of a nearest neighbor instance-based algorithm (NN) to generate full photometric redshift probability density functions (PDFs) for objects in the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS…

Hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation and evolution attempt to fully model the physics that shapes galaxies. The agreement between the morphology of simulated and real galaxies, and the way the morphological types are distributed…