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The morphology of a galaxy has been shown to encode the evolutionary history and correlates strongly with physical properties such as stellar mass, star formation rates and past merger events. While the majority of galaxies in the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-23 Clár-Bríd Tohill , Steven Bamford , Christopher Conselice

Globular clusters (GCs) have been at the heart of many longstanding questions in many sub-fields of astronomy and, as such, systematic identification of GCs in external galaxies has immense impacts. In this study, we take advantage of M87's…

We investigate machine learning (ML) techniques for predicting the number of galaxies (N_gal) that occupy a halo, given the halo's properties. These types of mappings are crucial for constructing the mock galaxy catalogs necessary for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Xiaoying Xu , Shirley Ho , Hy Trac , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos , Michelle Ntampaka

We use Bayesian convolutional neural networks and a novel generative model of Galaxy Zoo volunteer responses to infer posteriors for the visual morphology of galaxies. Bayesian CNN can learn from galaxy images with uncertain labels and…

There exist a variety of star-galaxy classification techniques, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. In this paper, we present a novel meta-classification framework that combines and fully exploits different techniques to produce a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-20 Edward J. Kim , Robert J. Brunner , Matias Carrasco Kind

Galaxy cluster masses, rich with cosmological information, can be estimated from internal dark matter (DM) velocity dispersions, which in turn can be observationally inferred from satellite galaxy velocities. However, galaxies are biased…

We conduct a systematic robustness analysis of the unsupervised machine learning module within the hybrid framework \texttt{USmorph}. This module automatically discovers morphological structures from large-scale galaxy images, forming the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Guanwen Fang , Xiaolei Yin , Yirui Zheng , Zesen Lin , Shiwei Zhu , Jie Song , Chichun Zhou , Xu Kong

The universe is composed of galaxies that have diverse shapes. Once the structure of a galaxy is determined, it is possible to obtain important information about its formation and evolution. Morphologically classifying galaxies means…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-23 N. M. Cardoso , G. B. O. Schwarz , L. O. Dias , C. R. Bom , L. Sodré , C. Mendes de Oliveira

Understanding the formation and evolution of galaxy populations requires robust classification and characterisation techniques that jointly account for internal galaxy properties and environment. We analyse $5,306$ galaxies from the Galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-25 Fan Dai , Ranjan Maitra , Ivan K. Baldry

We propose a decision criterion for segmenting the cosmic web into different structure types (voids, sheets, filaments, and clusters) on the basis of their respective probabilities and the strength of data constraints. Our approach is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Florent Leclercq , Jens Jasche , Benjamin Wandelt

This paper presents machine learning experiments performed over results of galaxy classification into elliptical (E) and spiral (S) with morphological parameters: concetration (CN), assimetry metrics (A3), smoothness metrics (S3), entropy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-22 P. H. Barchi , F. G. da Costa , R. Sautter , T. C. Moura , D. H. Stalder , R. R. Rosa , R. R. de Carvalho

This series of papers is intended to evaluate astrocladistics in reconstructing phylogenies of galaxies. The objective of this second paper is to formalize the concept of galaxy formation and to identify the processes of diversification. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Didier Fraix-Burnet , Emmanuel J. P. Douzery , Philippe Choler , Anne Verhamme

We explore the clustering of galaxy groups in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to investigate the dependence of group bias and profile on separation scale and group mass. Due to the inherent uncertainty in estimating the group…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-14 S. D. Riggs , R. W. Y. M. Barbhuiyan , J. Loveday , S. Brough , B. W. Holwerda , A. M. Hopkins , S. Phillipps

We present cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters, with focus on the cluster outskirts. We show that large-scale cosmic accretion and mergers produce significant internal gas motions and inhomogeneous gas distribution ("clumpiness") in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-10 Daisuke Nagai

We present a machine learning (ML) pipeline to identify star clusters in the multi{color images of nearby galaxies, from observations obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Treasury Project LEGUS (Legacy ExtraGalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 Gustavo Perez , Matteo Messa , Daniela Calzetti , Subhransu Maji , Dooseok Jung , Angela Adamo , Mattia Siressi

High-resolution cosmological hydrodynamic simulations are currently limited to relatively small volumes due to their computational expense. However, much larger volumes are required to probe rare, overdense environments, and measure…

Many observable properties of globular clusters (GCs) provide valuable insights for unveiling the hierarchical assembly of their host galaxy. For the Milky Way (MW) in particular, GCs from different accreted satellite galaxies show distinct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-05 Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin

We present a set-based machine learning framework that infers posterior distributions of galaxy cluster masses from projected galaxy dynamics. Our model combines Deep Sets and conditional normalizing flows to incorporate both positional and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Bonny Y. Wang , Leander Thiele

Understanding how galaxies trace the underlying matter density field is essential for characterizing the influence of the large-scale structure on galaxy formation, being therefore a key ingredient in observational cosmology. This…

We present a new application of deep learning to reconstruct the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps from the images of microwave sky, and to use these reconstructed maps to estimate the masses of galaxy clusters. We use a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-17 N. Gupta , C. L. Reichardt