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The global colors of galaxies have recently been shown to follow bimodal distributions. Galaxies separate into a ``red sequence'', populated prototypically by early-type galaxies, and a ``blue cloud'', whose typical objects are late-type…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Niv Drory , David B. Fisher

We present new quantitative classification methods for emission-line galaxies, which are specially designed to be used in deep galaxy redshift surveys. A good segregation between starbursts and active galactic nuclei, i.e. Seyferts 2s and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Claudia S. Rola , Elena Terlevich , Roberto J. Terlevich

We propose a new method to investigate the coefficient of the selective extinction, based on two band photometry. This method uses red clump stars as a means to construct the reddening curve. We apply this method to the OGLE color-magnitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 P. R. Wozniak , K. Z. Stanek

In this study, we propose a three-stage training approach of neural networks for both photometric redshift estimation of galaxies and detection of out-of-distribution (OOD) objects. Our approach comprises supervised and unsupervised…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-04 Joongoo Lee , Min-Su Shin

We describe an automated method, the Cut & Enhance method (CE) for detecting clusters of galaxies in multi-color optical imaging surveys. This method uses simple color cuts, combined with a density enhancement algorithm, to up-weight pairs…

Classifying catalog objects as stars, galaxies, or AGN is a crucial part of any statistical study of galaxies. We describe our pipeline for binary (star/galaxy) and multiclass (star/galaxy/Type I AGN/Type II AGN) classification developed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-14 Anneya Golob , Marcin Sawicki , Andy D. Goulding , Jean Coupon

We develop a galaxy cluster finding algorithm based on spectral clustering technique to identify optical counterparts and estimate optical redshifts for X-ray selected cluster candidates. As an application, we run our algorithm on a sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-15 Eman Mahmoud , Ali Takey , Amin Shoukry

The orientations of the red galaxies in a filament are aligned with the orientation of the filament. We thus develop a location-alignment-method (LAM) of detecting filaments around clusters of galaxies, which uses both the alignments of red…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-29 Yu Rong , Yuan Liu , Shuang-Nan Zhang

In this paper we present a novel method to identify and characterize stellar clusters deeply embedded in a dark molecular cloud. The method is based on measuring stellar surface density in wide-field infrared images using star counting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Marco Lombardi , Charles J. Lada , Joao Alves

In this paper we discuss the mix of star-forming and passive galaxies up to z~2, based on the first epoch VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) data.In agreement with previous works we find that the galaxy rest-frame color distribution follows a…

The problem of automated separation of stars and galaxies on photographic plates is revisited with two goals in mind : First, to separate galaxies from everything else (as opposed to most previous work, in which galaxies were lumped…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Naim

We use the overlap between multiband photometry of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) and spectroscopic data based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) to infer the colour-magnitude relation of red-sequence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-13 Mohammadjavad Vakili , Maciej Bilicki , Henk Hoekstra , Nora Elisa Chisari , Christos Georgiou , Arun Kannawadi , Koen Kuijken , Angus H. Wright

We study the spectral classification of emission-line galaxies as star-forming galaxies or Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) high quality data, we define an improved classification to be used for high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Fabrice Lamareille

We present measurements of the angular correlation function of galaxies selected from a B_J=23.5 multicolour survey of two 5 degree by 5 degree fields located at high galactic latitudes. The galaxy catalogue of approximately 400,000…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. J. I. Brown , R. L. Webster , B. J. Boyle

We investigate the potential and accuracy of clustering-based redshift estimation using the method proposed by M\'enard et al. (2013). This technique enables the inference of redshift distributions from measurements of the spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Mubdi Rahman , Brice Ménard , Ryan Scranton , Samuel J. Schmidt , Christopher B. Morrison

We present measurements of the higher-order clustering of red and blue galaxies as a function of scale and luminosity made from the two-degree field galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS). We use a counts-in-cells analysis to estimate the volume…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Darren J. Croton , Peder Norberg , Enrique Gaztanaga , Carlton M. Baugh

Image processing is an important research area in computer vision. Image segmentation plays the vital rule in image processing research. There exist so many methods for image segmentation. Clustering is an unsupervised study. Clustering can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-31 Dibya Jyoti Bora , Anil Kumar Gupta

We present initial results from a wide-field, multi-colour imaging project, designed to study galaxy evolution in X-ray selected clusters at intermediate (z~0.25) and high redshifts (z~0.5). In this paper we give blue galaxy fractions from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. W. Fairley , L. R. Jones , D. A. Wake , C. A. Collins , D. J. Burke , R. C. Nichol , A. K. Romer

Photometric redshift classifiers provide a means of estimating galaxy redshifts from observations using a small number of broad-band filters. However, the accuracy with which redshifts can be determined is sensitive to the star formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Tadayuki Kodama , Eric F. Bell , Richard G. Bower