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Einstein rings are rare gem of the strong lensing phenomena. Unlike doubly or quadruply lensed systems, the ring images can be used to probe the underlying lens gravitational potential at every position angle, putting much tighter…

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This paper follows series of our works on the applicability of various machine learning methods to the morphological galaxy classification (Vavilova et al., 2021, 2022). We exploited the sample of 315776 SDSS DR9 galaxies with absolute…

Quantitative morphological classification of galaxies is important for understanding the origin of type frequency and correlations with environment. But galaxy morphological classification is still mainly done visually by dedicated…

The possibility to constrain cosmological parameters from galaxy surveys using field-level machine learning methods that bypass traditional summary statistics analyses, depends crucially on our ability to generate simulated training sets.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Iñigo Sáez-Casares , Matteo Calabrese , Davide Bianchi , Marina S. Cagliari , Marco Chiarenza , Jean-Marc Christille , Luigi Guzzo

Large photometric surveys will image billions of galaxies, but we currently lack quick, reliable automated ways to infer their physical properties like morphology, stellar mass, and star formation rates. Simulations provide galaxy images…

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We present a convolutional neural network to classify distinct cosmological scenarios based on the statistically similar weak-lensing maps they generate. Modified gravity (MG) models that include massive neutrinos can mimic the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Austin Peel , Florian Lalande , Jean-Luc Starck , Valeria Pettorino , Julian Merten , Carlo Giocoli , Massimo Meneghetti , Marco Baldi

The goal of this paper is to develop a machine learning model to analyze the main gravitational lens and detect dark substructure (subhalos) within simulated images of strongly lensed galaxies. Using the technique of image segmentation, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-27 Bryan Ostdiek , Ana Diaz Rivero , Cora Dvorkin

In many applications, Neural Nets (NNs) have classification performance on par or even exceeding human capacity. Moreover, it is likely that NNs leverage underlying features that might differ from those humans perceive to classify. Can we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Haowen Guan , Xuan Zhao , Zishi Wang , Zhiyang Li , Julia Kempe

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

The relationship between galaxies and haloes is central to the description of galaxy formation, and a fundamental step towards extracting precise cosmological information from galaxy maps. However, this connection involves several complex…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Natália V. N. Rodrigues , Natalí S. M. de Santi , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , L. Raul Abramo

We consider a machine learning algorithm to detect and identify strong gravitational lenses on sky images. First, we simulate different artificial but very close to reality images of galaxies, stars and strong lenses, using six different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-06 H. G. Khachatryan

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-15 John F. Wu

Automated characterization of galactic substructure is an essential step in understanding the transformative physical processes driving galaxy evolution. In this study, we investigate the application of deep learning (DL) frameworks to…

Generative deep learning methods built upon Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) provide a great tool for predicting non-linear structure in cosmology. In this work we predict high resolution dark matter halos from large scale, low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-25 David Schaurecker , Yin Li , Jeremy Tinker , Shirley Ho , Alexandre Refregier

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

The Canada-France Imaging Survey (CFIS) will consist of deep, high-resolution r-band imaging over ~5000 square degrees of the sky, representing a first-rate opportunity to identify recently-merged galaxies. Due to the large number of…

Astronomers have typically set out to solve supervised machine learning problems by creating their own representations from scratch. We show that deep learning models trained to answer every Galaxy Zoo DECaLS question learn meaningful…

Deep learning, as a promising new area of machine learning, has attracted a rapidly increasing attention in the field of medical imaging. Compared to the conventional machine learning methods, deep learning requires no hand-tuned feature…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-29 He Yang , Hengyong Yu , Ge Wang

Context. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been proven to perform fast classification and detection on natural images and have potential to infer astrophysical parameters on the exponentially increasing amount of sky survey imaging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 J. Bialopetravičius , D. Narbutis , V. Vansevičius

Most existing star-galaxy classifiers depend on the reduced information from catalogs, necessitating careful data processing and feature extraction. In this study, we employ a supervised machine learning method (GoogLeNet) to automatically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-23 Shiliang Zhang , Guanwen Fang , Jie Song , Ran Li , Yizhou Gu , Zesen Lin , Chichun Zhou , Yao Dai , Xu Kong