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A galaxy's morphological features encode details about its gas content, star formation history, and feedback processes, which play important roles in regulating its growth and evolution. We use deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to…

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Mergers are an important aspect of galaxy formation and evolution. We aim to test whether deep learning techniques can be used to reproduce visual classification of observations, physical classification of simulations and highlight any…

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Galaxy mergers are crucial for understanding galaxy evolution, and with large upcoming datasets, automated methods such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are essential for efficient detection. It is understood that CNNs classify…

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The morphological diversity of galaxies is a relevant probe of galaxy evolution and cosmological structure formation, but the classification of galaxies in large sky surveys is becoming a significant challenge. We use data from the…

The results of morphological galaxy classifications performed by humans and by automated methods are compared. In particular, a comparison is made between the eyeball classifications of 454 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicholas M. Ball

The morphological classification of radio sources is important to gain a full understanding of galaxy evolution processes and their relation with local environmental properties. Furthermore, the complex nature of the problem, its appeal for…

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Contamination from galaxy fragments, identified as sources, is a major issue in large photometric galaxy catalogs. In this paper, we prove that this problem can be easily addressed with computer vision techniques. We use image cutouts to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-01 Enrico M. Di Teodoro , Josh E. G. Peek , John F. Wu

At high redshift, due to both observational limitations and the variety of galaxy morphologies in the early universe, measuring galaxy structure can be challenging. Non-parametric measurements such as the CAS system have thus become an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-08 C. Tohill , L. Ferreira , C. J. Conselice , S. P. Bamford , F. Ferrari

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

We present a machine-learning approach for estimating galaxy cluster masses from Chandra mock images. We utilize a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), a deep machine learning tool commonly used in image recognition tasks. The CNN is trained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-20 M. Ntampaka , J. ZuHone , D. Eisenstein , D. Nagai , A. Vikhlinin , L. Hernquist , F. Marinacci , D. Nelson , R. Pakmor , A. Pillepich , P. Torrey , M. Vogelsberger

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

Based on the DUSTGRAIN-pathfinder suite of simulations, we investigate observational degeneracies between nine models of modified gravity and massive neutrinos. Three types of machine learning techniques are tested for their ability to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Julian Merten , Carlo Giocoli , Marco Baldi , Massimo Meneghetti , Austin Peel , Florian Lalande , Jean-Luc Starck , Valeria Pettorino

The two currently largest all-sky photometric datasets, WISE and SuperCOSMOS, were cross-matched by Bilicki et al. (2016) (B16) to construct a novel photometric redshift catalogue on 70% of the sky. Galaxies were therein separated from…

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Galaxy morphology is a key parameter in galaxy evolution studies. The enormous number of galaxies which current and future surveys will observe demand of automated methods for morphological classification. Supervised learning techniques…

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Next generation telescopes, like Euclid, Rubin/LSST, and Roman, will open new windows on the Universe, allowing us to infer physical properties for tens of millions of galaxies. Machine learning methods are increasingly becoming the most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-05 Euclid Collaboration , L. Bisigello , C. J. Conselice , M. Baes , M. Bolzonella , M. Brescia , S. Cavuoti , O. Cucciati , A. Humphrey , L. K. Hunt , C. Maraston , L. Pozzetti , C. Tortora , S. E. van Mierlo , N. Aghanim , N. Auricchio , M. Baldi , R. Bender , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , A. Cimatti , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , F. Courbin , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , P. Franzetti , M. Fumana , B. Garilli , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , K. Jahnke , M. Kümmel , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , R. Kohley , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , F. Marulli , R. Massey , S. Maurogordato , E. Medinaceli , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , S. M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. Popa , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , H. -W. Rix , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , C. Rosset , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , P. Schneider , M. Scodeggio , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , P. Tallada-Crespí , D. Tavagnacco , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , Y. Wang , A. Zacchei , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , S. Andreon , S. Bardelli A. Boucaud , C. Colodro-Conde , D. Di Ferdinando , J. Graciá-Carpio , V. Lindholm , D. Maino , S. Mei , V. Scottez , F. Sureau , M. Tenti , E. Zucca , A. S. Borlaff , M. Ballardini , A. Biviano , E. Bozzo , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , A. Cappi , C. S. Carvalho , S. Casas , G. Castignani , A. Cooray , J. Coupon , H. M. Courtois , J. Cuby , S. Davini , G. De Lucia , G. Desprez , H. Dole , J. A. Escartin , S. Escoffier , M. Farina , S. Fotopoulou , K. Ganga , J. Garcia-Bellido , K. George , F. Giacomini , G. Gozaliasl , H. Hildebrandt , I. Hook , M. Huertas-Company , V. Kansal , E. Keihanen , C. C. Kirkpatrick , A. Loureiro , J. F. Macías-Pérez , M. Magliocchetti , G. Mainetti , S. Marcin , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , R. B. Metcalf , P. Monaco , G. Morgante , S. Nadathur , A. A. Nucita , L. Patrizii , A. Peel , D. Potter , A. Pourtsidou , M. Pöntinen , P. Reimberg , A. G. Sánchez , Z. Sakr , M. Schirmer , E. Sefusatti , M. Sereno , J. Stadel , R. Teyssier , C. Valieri , J. Valiviita , M. Viel

Machine learning is becoming a popular tool to quantify galaxy morphologies and identify mergers. However, this technique relies on using an appropriate set of training data to be successful. By combining hydrodynamical simulations,…

The future astronomical imaging surveys are set to provide precise constraints on cosmological parameters, such as dark energy. However, production of synthetic data for these surveys, to test and validate analysis methods, suffers from a…

Context. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used for automated galaxy morphological classification in large surveys. However, projection effects, image artefacts, and intrinsic degeneracies limit reliable identification of…

Deep learning is a powerful analysis technique that has recently been proposed as a method to constrain cosmological parameters from weak lensing mass maps. Due to its ability to learn relevant features from the data, it is able to extract…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak , Aurelien Lucchi , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Thomas Hofmann

We train three convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to classify galaxies with Galaxy Zoo 2 dataset and extract the activations from the last fully connected layer or the last average pooling layer of CNNs to study the high-dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-17 Jia-Ming Dai , Jizhou Tong