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The ring structures of disk galaxies are vital for understanding galaxy evolution and dynamics. However, due to the scarcity of ringed galaxies and challenges in their identification, traditional methods often struggle to efficiently obtain…

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The formation and evolution of ring structures in galaxies are crucial for understanding the nature and distribution of dark matter, galactic interactions, and the internal secular evolution of galaxies. However, the limited number of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-23 Aina Zhang , Xiaoming Kong , Bowen Liu , Nan Li , Yude Bu , Zhenping Yi , Meng Liu

Rings are important and characteristic features of disc-shaped galaxies. This paper is the first in a series which re-visits galactic rings with the goals of further understanding the nature of the features and for examining their role in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 R. J. Buta

Morphological features in galaxies, like spiral arms, bars, rings, tidal tails etc. carry information about their structure, origin and evolution. It is therefore important to catalog and study such features and to correlate them with other…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-06 Linn Abraham , Sheelu Abraham , Ajit K. Kembhavi , N. S. Philip , A. K. Aniyan , Sudhanshu Barway , Harish Kumar

The catalog of ringed galaxies was compiled through visual classification of synthetic images from the TNG50 simulation. Galaxies were selected based on specific criteria: a redshift range of $0.01 < z < 0.1$, stellar mass $M_\star >10^9…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-28 Julia Fernandez , Emanuel Sillero , Sol Alonso , Patricia Tissera

State-of-the-art radio observatories produce large amounts of data which can be used to study the properties of radio galaxies. However, with this rapid increase in data volume, it has become unrealistic to manually process all of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Kevin Brand , Trienko L. Grobler , Waldo Kleynhans , Mattia Vaccari , Matthew Prescott , Burger Becker

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…

Autonomous digital sky surveys such as Pan-STARRS have the ability to image a very large number of galactic and extra-galactic objects, and the large and complex nature of the image data reinforces the use of automation. Here we describe…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Hunter Goddard , Lior Shamir

There are several supervised machine learning methods used for the application of automated morphological classification of galaxies; however, there has not yet been a clear comparison of these different methods using imaging data, or a…

In this paper, a deep convolutional neural network architecture for galaxies classification is presented. The galaxy can be classified based on its features into main three categories Elliptical, Spiral, and Irregular. The proposed deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Nour Eldeen M. Khalifa , Mohamed Hamed N. Taha , Aboul Ella Hassanien , I. M. Selim

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

We investigate and demonstrate the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the task of distinguishing between merging and non-merging galaxies in simulated images, and for the first time at high redshifts (i.e. $z=2$). We extract…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-28 A. Ćiprijanović , G. F. Snyder , B. Nord , J. E. G. Peek

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

Being able to distinguish between galaxies that have recently undergone major merger events, or are experiencing intense star formation, is crucial for making progress in our understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies. As…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-01 Leonardo Ferreira , Christopher J. Conselice , Ulrike Kuchner , Clar-Bríd Tohill

Numerous studies have demonstrated the ability of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to classify large numbers of galaxies in a manner which mimics the expertise of astronomers. Such classifications are not always physically motivated,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-24 J. D. Diaz , Kenji Bekki , Duncan A. Forbes , Warrick J. Couch , Michael J. Drinkwater , Simon Deeley

The structural information of spiral galaxies such as the spiral arm number, offer valuable insights into their formation processes and physical roles in galaxy evolution. We developed classifiers based on CNNs using variants of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-17 Ming Wei Lee , John Y. H. Soo , Syarawi M. H. Sharoni

In this work, we explore the potential of multi-domain multi-branch convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for identifying comparatively rare giant radio galaxies from large volumes of survey data, such as those expected for new-generation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 H. Tang , A. M. M. Scaife , O. I. Wong , S. S. Shabala

We explore the capability of deep learning to classify cosmic structures. In cosmological simulations, cosmic volumes are segmented into voids, sheets, filaments and knots, according to the distribution and kinematics of dark matter (DM),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Shigeki Inoue , Xiaotian Si , Takashi Okamoto , Moka Nishigaki

We applied the image-based approach with a convolutional neural network model to the sample of low-redshifts galaxies with $-24^{m}<M_{r}<-19.4^{m}$ from the SDSS DR9. We divided it into two subsamples, SDSS DR9 galaxy dataset and Galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-04 I. B. Vavilova , V. Khramtsov , D. V. Dobrycheva , M. Yu. Vasylenko , A. A. Elyiv , O. V. Melnyk

Edge-on galaxies have many important applications in galactic astrophysics, but they can be difficult to identify in vast amounts of astronomical data. To facilitate the search for them, we have developed a deep learning algorithm designed…

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