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We apply the capabilities of machine learning (ML) to discern patterns in order to classify metal-poor stars. To do so, we train an ML model on a bank of nucleosynthesis calculations derived from hydrodynamic simulations for events such as…

Recent advancements in areas such as natural language processing and computer vision rely on intricate and massive models that have been trained using vast amounts of unlabelled or partly labeled data and training or deploying these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Rishit Dagli

Galaxy morphology is a product of how galaxies formed, how they interacted with their environment, how they were influenced by internal perturbations, AGN, and dark matter, and of their varied star formation histories. This article reviews…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-03 Ronald J. Buta

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

Galaxy morphology is one of the most fundamental ways to describe galaxy properties, but the morphology we observe may be affected by wavelength and spatial resolution, which may introduce systematic bias when comparing galaxies at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-27 Yao Yao , Jie Song , Xu Kong , Guanwen Fang , Hong-Xin Zhang , Xinkai Chen

Galaxy morphologies and their relation with physical properties have been a relevant subject of study in the past. Most galaxy morphology catalogs have been labelled by human annotators or by machine learning models trained on human…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-23 Esteban Medina-Rosales , Guillermo Cabrera-Vives , Christopher J. Miller

In recent decades, large-scale sky surveys such as Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have resulted in generation of tremendous amount of data. The classification of this enormous amount of data by astronomers is time consuming. To simplify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 Sarvesh Gharat , Yogesh Dandawate

We present a general modified maximum likelihood (MML) method for inferring generative distribution functions from uncertain and biased data. The MML estimator is identical to, but easier and many orders of magnitude faster to compute than…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-10 Danail Obreschkow , Steven G. Murray , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Tobias Westmeier

Context. The accurate classification of hundreds of thousands of galaxies observed in modern deep surveys is imperative if we want to understand the universe and its evolution. Aims. Here, we report the use of machine learning techniques to…

We train three convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to classify galaxies with Galaxy Zoo 2 dataset and extract the activations from the last fully connected layer or the last average pooling layer of CNNs to study the high-dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-17 Jia-Ming Dai , Jizhou Tong

Machine learning (ML) has become a key tool in astronomy, driving advancements in the analysis and interpretation of complex datasets from observations. This article reviews the application of ML techniques in the identification and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Guangping Li , Zujia Lu , Junzhi Wang , Zhao Wang

We investigate star-galaxy classification for astronomical surveys in the context of four methods enabling the interpretation of black-box machine learning systems. The first is outputting and exploring the decision boundaries as given by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Xan Morice-Atkinson , Ben Hoyle , David Bacon

Galaxy morphology analysis involves studying galaxies based on their shapes and structures. For such studies, fundamental tasks include identifying and classifying galaxies in astronomical images, as well as retrieving visually or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Ruoqi Wang , Haitao Wang , Qiong Luo

Deep metric learning is an important area due to its applicability to many domains such as image retrieval and person re-identification. The main drawback of such models is the necessity for labeled data. In this work, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Xuefei Cao , Bor-Chun Chen , Ser-Nam Lim

One of the major challenges in astronomy involves accurately classifying galaxies, particularly distinguishing between different galaxy types. While many complex algorithms have shown strong performance in classification tasks, their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Sazatul Nadhilah Zakaria , Santtosh Muniyandy , John Y. H. Soo

Galaxy morphology encodes key information about formation and evolution. Large imaging surveys require automated, reproducible methods beyond visual inspection. Non--parametric indices provide an useful framework, but their performance must…

Selective Laser Melting (SLM) is a powder-bed additive manufacturing technique whose part quality depends critically on feedstock morphology. However, conventional powder characterization methods are low-throughput and qualitative, failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Emmanuel Akeweje , Conall Kirk , Chi-Wai Chan , Denis Dowling , Mimi Zhang

To date, galaxy image simulations for weak lensing surveys usually approximate the light profiles of all galaxies as a single or double S\'ersic profile, neglecting the influence of galaxy substructures and morphologies deviating from such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 Euclid Collaboration , B. Csizi , T. Schrabback , S. Grandis , H. Hoekstra , H. Jansen , L. Linke , G. Congedo , A. N. Taylor , A. Amara , S. Andreon , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , P. Battaglia , R. Bender , A. Biviano , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , G. Cañas-Herrera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , K. C. Chambers , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , J. Dinis , H. Dole , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , S. Escoffier , M. Farina , R. Farinelli , S. Farrens , F. Faustini , S. Ferriol , S. Fotopoulou , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , S. Galeotta , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , J. Gracia-Carpio , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , I. Hook , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , S. Ilić , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , B. Joachimi , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , B. Kubik , K. Kuijken , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , A. M. C. Le Brun , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Melchior , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , G. Meylan , A. Mora , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , A. G. Sánchez , B. Sartoris , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , P. Simon , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , A. Spurio Mancini , L. Stanco , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , D. Tavagnacco , H. I. Teplitz , I. Tereno , N. Tessore , S. Toft , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , E. Zucca , M. Bolzonella , E. Bozzo , C. Burigana , M. Calabrese , D. Di Ferdinando , J. A. Escartin Vigo , S. Matthew , N. Mauri , A. Pezzotta , M. Pöntinen , V. Scottez , M. Tenti , M. Viel , M. Wiesmann , Y. Akrami , V. Allevato , S. Anselmi , M. Archidiacono , F. Atrio-Barandela , M. Ballardini , A. Blanchard , L. Blot , S. Borgani , S. Bruton , R. Cabanac , A. Calabro , A. Cappi , F. Caro , C. S. Carvalho , T. Castro , S. Contarini , A. R. Cooray , G. Desprez , A. Díaz-Sánchez , J. J. Diaz , S. Di Domizio , A. G. Ferrari , P. G. Ferreira , I. Ferrero , A. Finoguenov , A. Fontana , F. Fornari , L. Gabarra , K. Ganga , J. García-Bellido , T. Gasparetto , E. Gaztanaga , F. Giacomini , F. Gianotti , G. Gozaliasl , C. M. Gutierrez , A. Hall , H. Hildebrandt , J. Hjorth , A. Jimenez Muñoz , S. Joudaki , J. J. E. Kajava , V. Kansal , D. Karagiannis , C. C. Kirkpatrick , J. Le Graet , L. Legrand , J. Lesgourgues , T. I. Liaudat , A. Loureiro , J. Macias-Perez , G. Maggio , M. Magliocchetti , C. Mancini , F. Mannucci , R. Maoli , J. Martín-Fleitas , C. J. A. P. Martins , L. Maurin , R. B. Metcalf , M. Miluzio , P. Monaco , A. Montoro , C. Moretti , G. Morgante , Nicholas A. Walton , L. Pagano , L. Patrizii , V. Popa , D. Potter , I. Risso , P. -F. Rocci , M. Sahlén , E. Sarpa , A. Schneider , M. Sereno , J. Stadel , K. Tanidis , C. Tao , G. Testera , R. Teyssier , S. Tosi , A. Troja , M. Tucci , C. Valieri , D. Vergani , G. Verza , P. Vielzeuf

The formation of Hoag-type galaxies with central spheroidal galaxies and outer stellar rings has yet to be understood in astronomy. We consider that these unique objects were formed from the past interaction between elliptical galaxies and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-08 Eleanor Leung , Kenji Bekki , Lyndon While

The rapid increase in data on galaxy images at low and high redshift calls for re-examination of the classification schemes and for new automatic objective methods. Here we present a classification method by Artificial Neural Networks. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ofer Lahav