English
Related papers

Related papers: RJ-plots: An improved method to classify structure…

200 papers

Statistical pattern classification methods based on data-random graphs were introduced recently. In this approach, a random directed graph is constructed from the data using the relative positions of the data points from various classes.…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-02-06 E. Ceyhan , C. E. Priebe , J. C. Wierman

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

Galaxy morphology is one of the most fundamental ways to describe galaxy properties, but the morphology we observe may be affected by wavelength and spatial resolution, which may introduce systematic bias when comparing galaxies at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-27 Yao Yao , Jie Song , Xu Kong , Guanwen Fang , Hong-Xin Zhang , Xinkai Chen

We investigated the structures on scales beyond the typical clusters of galaxies. These structures are crucial to understand the cosmic gravitational clustering in the pre-virialized stage, or quasilinear r\`egime. Based on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wen Xu , Li-Zhi Fang , Zugan Deng

Hierarchical classification is significant for complex tasks by providing multi-granular predictions and encouraging better mistakes. As the label structure decides its performance, many existing approaches attempt to construct an excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Xiaoni Li , Yucan Zhou , Yu Zhou , Weiping Wang

Reliable celestial attitude determination is a critical requirement for autonomous spacecraft navigation, yet traditional "Lost-in-Space" (LIS) algorithms often suffer from high computational overhead and sensitivity to sensor-induced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 May Hammad , Menatallh Hammad

Three methods for detecting and characterizing structure in point data, such as that generated by redshift surveys, are described: classification using self-organizing maps, segmentation using Bayesian blocks, and density estimation using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. J. Way , P. R. Gazis , Jeffrey D. Scargle

Machine learning techniques have been increasingly useful in astronomical applications over the last few years, for example in the morphological classification of galaxies. Convolutional neural networks have proven to be highly effective in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 V. Lukic , M. Brüggen , J. K. Banfield , O. I. Wong , L. Rudnick , R. P. Norris , B. Simmons

Galaxy morphology encodes key information about formation and evolution. Large imaging surveys require automated, reproducible methods beyond visual inspection. Non--parametric indices provide an useful framework, but their performance must…

Although coherent large-scale structures such as filaments and walls are apparent to the eye in galaxy redshift surveys, they have so far proven difficult to characterize with computer algorithms. This paper presents a procedure that uses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Nicholas Bond , Michael Strauss , Renyue Cen

We propose a new method for quantitative characterization of spatial network-like patterns with loops, such as surface fracture patterns, leaf vein networks and patterns of urban streets. Such patterns are not well characterized by purely…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 Andrea Perna , Pascale Kuntz , Stéphane Douady

Samples of galaxy clusters allow us to better understand the physics at play in galaxy formation and to constrain cosmological models once their mass, position (for clustering studies) and redshift are known. In this context, large optical…

The structure of interstellar medium can be characterised at large scales in terms of its global statistics (e.g. power spectra) and at small scales by the properties of individual cores. Interest has been increasing in structures at…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 M. Juvela

Context. Filamentary structures appear to be ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. Being able to detect and characterize them is the first step toward understanding their origin, their evolution, and their role in the Galactic cycle of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 J. -S. Carrière , L. Montier , K. Ferrière , I. Ristorcelli

Cluster-scale strong lensing is a powerful tool for exploring the properties of dark matter and constraining cosmological models. However, due to the complex parameter space, pixelized strong lens modeling in galaxy clusters is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Yushan Xie , Huanyuan Shan , Nan Li , Ran Li , Eric Jullo , Chen Su , Xiaoyue Cao , Jean-Paul Kneib , Ana Acebron , Mengfan He , Ji Yao , Chunxiang Wang , Jiadong Li , Yin Li

Tidal debris structures formed from disrupted satellites contain important clues about the assembly histories of galaxies. To date, studies of these structures have been hampered by reliance on by-eye identification and morphological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-24 David Hendel , Kathryn V. Johnston , Rohit K. Patra , Bodhisattva Sen

We demonstrate that morphological observables (e.g. steepness of the radial light profile, ellipticity, asymmetry) are intertwined and cannot be measured independently of each other. We present strong arguments in favour of model-based…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Rene Andrae , Knud Jahnke , Peter Melchior

Deep learning technology has enabled successful modeling of complex facial features when high quality images are available. Nonetheless, accurate modeling and recognition of human faces in real world scenarios `on the wild' or under adverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 S. W. Arachchilage , E. Izquierdo

Filamentary structures in neutral hydrogen (HI) emission are well aligned with the interstellar magnetic field, so HI emission morphology can be used to construct templates that strongly correlate with measurements of polarized thermal dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-04 George Halal , Susan E. Clark , Ari Cukierman , Dominic Beck , Chao-Lin Kuo

We present a preliminary study exploring whether the stellar orbital circularity of simulated galaxies, available from precomputed catalogs in the IllustrisTNG project, can be used as a proxy for broad morphological classification. We focus…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-26 Katarina Baucalo , Ana Mitrašinović