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The taxonomy of galaxy morphology is critical in astrophysics as the morphological properties are powerful tracers of galaxy evolution. With the upcoming Large-scale Imaging Surveys, billions of galaxy images challenge astronomers to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Zhirui Zhang , Zhiqiang Zou , Nan Li , Yanli Chen

Methods. We used different galaxy classification techniques: human labeling, multi-photometry diagrams, Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, k-Nearest Neighbors, and k-fold validation. Results. We present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-09 I. B. Vavilova , D. V. Dobrycheva , M. Yu. Vasylenko , A. A. Elyiv , O. V. Melnyk , V. Khramtsov

The morphological classification of galaxies provides vital physical information about the orbital motions of stars in galaxies, and correlates in interesting ways with star formation history, and other physical properties. Galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-14 Karen Masters

Understanding morphological types of galaxies is a key parameter for studying their formation and evolution. Neural networks that have been used previously for galaxy morphology classification have some disadvantages, such as not being…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Reza Katebi , Yadi Zhou , Ryan Chornock , Razvan Bunescu

We present an extended morphometric system to automatically classify galaxies from astronomical images. The new system includes the original and modified versions of the CASGM coefficients (Concentration $C_1$, Asymmetry $A_3$, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-21 Fabricio Ferrari , Reinaldo Ramos de Carvalho , Marina Trevisan

We introduce a new method to determine galaxy cluster membership based solely on photometric properties. We adopt a machine learning approach to recover a cluster membership probability from galaxy photometric parameters and finally derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 P. A. A. Lopes , A. L. B. Ribeiro

We present a star/galaxy classification for the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS), based on a Machine Learning approach: the Random Forest algorithm. We train the algorithm using the S-PLUS optical photometry up to $r$=21,…

Galaxy morphology, a key tracer of the evolution of a galaxy's physical structure, has motivated extensive research on machine learning techniques for efficient and accurate galaxy classification. The emergence of quantum computers has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-08 Mohammad Hassan Hassanshahi , Marcin Jastrzebski , Sarah Malik , Ofer Lahav

The classification of galaxy morphology is a hot issue in astronomical research. Although significant progress has been made in the last decade in classifying galaxy morphology using deep learning technology, there are still some…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Guangping Li , Tingting Xu , Liping Li , Xianjun Gao , Zhijing Liu , Jie Cao , Mingcun Yang , Weihong Zhou

The morphological classification of galaxies is considered a relevant issue and can be approached from different points of view. The increasing growth in the size and accuracy of astronomical data sets brings with it the need for the use of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-01 M. S. Rosito , L. A. Bignone , P. B. Tissera , S. E. Pedrosa

In the era of big astronomical surveys, our ability to leverage artificial intelligence algorithms simultaneously for multiple datasets will open new avenues for scientific discovery. Unfortunately, simply training a deep neural network on…

We present a quantitative method to classify galaxies, based on multi-wavelength data and elaborated from the properties of nearby galaxies. Our objective is to define an evolutionary method that can be used for low and high redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Sebastien Lauger , Denis Burgarella , Veronique Buat

The task of morphological classification is complex for simple parameterization, but important for research in the galaxy evolution field. Future galaxy surveys (e.g. EUCLID) will collect data about more than a $10^9$ galaxies. To obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Andrey Soroka , Alex Meshcheryakov , Sergey Gerasimov

Artificial intelligence methods show great promise in increasing the quality and speed of work with large astronomical datasets, but the high complexity of these methods leads to the extraction of dataset-specific, non-robust features.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-23 A. Ćiprijanović , A. Lewis , K. Pedro , S. Madireddy , B. Nord , G. N. Perdue , S. M. Wild

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

We apply four statistical learning methods to a sample of $7941$ galaxies ($z<0.06$) from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to test the feasibility of using automated algorithms to classify galaxies. Using $10$ features measured…

We present a metric to quantify systematic labeling bias in galaxy morphology data sets stemming from the quality of the labeled data. This labeling bias is independent from labeling errors and requires knowledge about the intrinsic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 Guillermo Cabrera-Vives , Christopher J. Miller , Jeff Schneider

We present morphological classifications obtained using machine learning for objects in SDSS DR6 that have been classified by Galaxy Zoo into three classes, namely early types, spirals and point sources/artifacts. An artificial neural…

Classification of galaxies is traditionally associated with their morphologies through visual inspection of images. The amount of data to come renders this task inhuman and Machine Learning (mainly Deep Learning) has been called to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-14 Didier Fraix-Burnet