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We present the results of an exhaustive analysis of the morphological segregation of galaxies in the CfA and SSRS catalogs through the scaling formalism. Morphological segregation between ellipticals and spirals has been detected at scales…

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The classification of galaxies as spirals or ellipticals is a crucial task in understanding their formation and evolution. With the arrival of large-scale astronomical surveys, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), astronomers now…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Anusha Guruprasad

We have carried out a deep infrared imaging survey (1.1um and 1.6um) of the Hubble Deep Field North (HDF-N) using NICMOS on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The combined WFPC2+NICMOS data set lets us study galaxy morphologies, colors and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark Dickinson

Compact stellar systems such as Ultra-compact dwarfs (UCDs) and Globular Clusters (GCs) around galaxies are known to be the tracers of the merger events that have been forming these galaxies. Therefore, identifying such systems allows to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-10 Mohammad Mohammadi , Jarvin Mutatiina , Teymoor Saifollahi , Kerstin Bunte

With the onset of large-scale astronomical surveys capturing millions of images, there is an increasing need to develop fast and accurate deconvolution algorithms that generalize well to different images. A powerful and accessible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Utsav Akhaury , Jean-Luc Starck , Pascale Jablonka , Frédéric Courbin , Kevin Michalewicz

The distinction between stars and galaxies is a fundamental problem in the field of celestial classification. This issue has become challenging for these ongoing and upcoming digital surveys, which will produce terabytes and even petabytes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Zhuoming Han , Tianmeng Zhang , Chao Liu , Chenxiaoji Ling

We present a machine learning analysis of five labelled galaxy catalogues from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The SersicCatVIKING and SersicCatUKIDSS catalogues containing morphological features, the GaussFitSimple catalogue…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-22 Aleke Nolte , Lingyu Wang , Maciej Bilicki , Benne Holwerda , Michael Biehl

We address the problem of morphological classification of galaxies from the Galaxy Zoo DECaLS dataset using classical machine learning techniques. Our approach employs a dimensionality reduction method followed by a classical classifier to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-23 Vasyl Semenov , Vitalii Tymchyshyn , Volodymyr Bezguba , Maksym Tsizh , Andrii Khlevniuk

Distinguishing galaxies as either fast or slow rotators plays a vital role in understanding the processes behind galaxy formation and evolution. Standard techniques, which are based on the $\lambda_R$-spin parameter obtained from stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 Amirmohammad Chegeni , Fatemeh Fazel Hesar , Mojtaba Raouf , Bernard Foing , Fons J. Verbeek

We present a method for automatic detection and classification of galaxies which includes a novel data-augmentation procedure to make trained models more robust against the data taken from different instruments and contrast-stretching…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-07 Roberto E. González , Roberto P. Muñoz , Cristian A. Hernández

Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) are one of the most promising methods for identifying strong gravitational lens candidates in survey data. We present two ConvNet lens-finders which we have trained with a dataset composed of real…

A novel method images to estimate cosmological parameters based on images is presented. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of a convolutional neural network (CNN) for constraining the mass of dark matter particle. For this purpose, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 Koya Murakami , Atsushi J. Nishizawa

We develop empirical methods for modeling the galaxy population and populating cosmological N-body simulations with mock galaxies according to the observed properties of galaxies in survey data. We use these techniques to produce a new set…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Brian F. Gerke , Risa H. Wechsler , Peter S. Behroozi , Michael C. Cooper , Renbin Yan , Alison L. Coil

We present a deep machine learning (ML) approach to constraining cosmological parameters with multi-wavelength observations of galaxy clusters. The ML approach has two components: an encoder that builds a compressed representation of each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Michelle Ntampaka , Alexey Vikhlinin

We have constructed a set of supercluster catalogues for the galaxies from the SDSS survey main and luminous red galaxy (LRG) flux-limited samples. To delineate superclusters, we calculated luminosity density fields using the B3-spline…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-17 L. J. Liivamägi , E. Tempel , E. Saar

We use the Galaxy Morphology Posterior Estimation Network (GaMPEN) to estimate morphological parameters and associated uncertainties for $\sim 8$ million galaxies in the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Wide survey with $z \leq 0.75$ and $m \leq…

Deep learning has gained great success in various classification tasks. Typically, deep learning models learn underlying features directly from data, and no underlying relationship between classes are included. Similarity between classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Xueli Xiao , Chunyan Ji , Thosini Bamunu Mudiyanselage , Yi Pan

In this work we explore the possibility of applying machine learning methods designed for one-dimensional problems to the task of galaxy image classification. The algorithms used for image classification typically rely on multiple costly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 F. Tarsitano , C. Bruderer , K. Schawinski , W. G. Hartley

We use a contrastive self-supervised learning framework to estimate distances to galaxies from their photometric images. We incorporate data augmentations from computer vision as well as an application-specific augmentation accounting for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Md Abul Hayat , Peter Harrington , George Stein , Zarija Lukić , Mustafa Mustafa

The continuum emission from radio galaxies can be generally classified into different morphological classes such as FRI, FRII, Bent, or Compact. In this paper, we explore the task of radio galaxy classification based on morphology using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-02 Ashwin Samudre , Lijo George , Mahak Bansal , Yogesh Wadadekar