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Galaxy morphology classification plays a crucial role in understanding the structure and evolution of the universe. With galaxy observation data growing exponentially, machine learning has become a core technology for this classification…

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Morphological classification is a key piece of information to define samples of galaxies aiming to study the large-scale structure of the universe. In essence, the challenge is to build up a robust methodology to perform a reliable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-05 P. H. Barchi , R. R. de Carvalho , R. R. Rosa , R. Sautter , M. Soares-Santos , B. A. D. Marques , E. Clua , T. S. Gonçalves , C. de Sá-Freitas , T. C. Moura

In this work we explore the possibility of applying machine learning methods designed for one-dimensional problems to the task of galaxy image classification. The algorithms used for image classification typically rely on multiple costly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 F. Tarsitano , C. Bruderer , K. Schawinski , W. G. Hartley

The classification of galaxies as spirals or ellipticals is a crucial task in understanding their formation and evolution. With the arrival of large-scale astronomical surveys, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), astronomers now…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Anusha Guruprasad

We address the problem of morphological classification of galaxies from the Galaxy Zoo DECaLS dataset using classical machine learning techniques. Our approach employs a dimensionality reduction method followed by a classical classifier to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-23 Vasyl Semenov , Vitalii Tymchyshyn , Volodymyr Bezguba , Maksym Tsizh , Andrii Khlevniuk

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

Galaxy morphology reflects structural properties which contribute to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. Deep convolutional networks have proven to be very successful in learning hidden features that allow for unprecedented…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Shoulin Wei , Yadi Li , Wei Lu , Nan Li , Bo Liang , Wei Dai , Zhijian Zhang

In recent years, automated, supervised classification techniques have been fruitfully applied to labeling and organizing large astronomical databases. These methods require off-line classifier training, based on labeled examples from each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Bazell , David J. Miller

The accurate automated classification of variable stars into their respective sub-types is difficult. Machine learning based solutions often fall foul of the imbalanced learning problem, which causes poor generalisation performance in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Zafiirah Hosenie , Robert Lyon , Benjamin Stappers , Arrykrishna Mootoovaloo , Vanessa McBride

Big data has become the norm in astronomy, making it an ideal domain for computer science research. Astronomers typically classify galaxies based on their morphologies, a practice that dates back to Hubble (1936). With small datasets,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-02 Yevonnael Andrew

Galaxy groups are essential for studying the distribution of matter on a large scale in redshift surveys and for deciphering the link between galaxy traits and their associated halos. In this work, we propose a widely applicable method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Juntao Ma , Jie Wang , Tianxiang Mao , Hongxiang Chen , Yuxi Meng , Xiaohu Yang , Qingyang Li

Galaxy morphology offers significant insights into the evolutionary pathways and underlying physics of galaxies. As astronomical data grows with surveys such as Euclid and Vera C. Rubin , there is a need for tools to classify and analyze…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-18 I. Kolesnikov , V. M. Sampaio , R. R. de Carvalho , C. Conselice , S. B. Rembold , C. L. Mendes , R. R. Rosa

Classification of galaxy morphology is a challenging but meaningful task for the enormous amount of data produced by the next-generation telescope. By introducing the adaptive polar coordinate transformation, we develop a rotationally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-11 G. W. Fang , S. Ba , Y. Z. Gu , Z. S. Lin , Y. J. Hou , C. X. Qin , C. C. Zhou , J. Xu , Y. Dai , J. Song , X. Kong

Galaxy morphology is a fundamental quantity, that is essential not only for the full spectrum of galaxy-evolution studies, but also for a plethora of science in observational cosmology. While a rich literature exists on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Garreth Martin , Sugata Kaviraj , Alex Hocking , Shaun C. Read , James E. Geach

We present a method for automatic detection and classification of galaxies which includes a novel data-augmentation procedure to make trained models more robust against the data taken from different instruments and contrast-stretching…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-07 Roberto E. González , Roberto P. Muñoz , Cristian A. Hernández

The morphology of a galaxy has been shown to encode the evolutionary history and correlates strongly with physical properties such as stellar mass, star formation rates and past merger events. While the majority of galaxies in the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-23 Clár-Bríd Tohill , Steven Bamford , Christopher Conselice

We use automated surface photometry and pattern classification techniques to morphologically classify galaxies. The two-dimensional light distribution of a galaxy is reconstructed using Fourier series fits to azimuthal profiles computed in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. C. Odewahn , S. H. Cohen , R. A. Windhorst , N. S. Philip

We describe an image analysis supervised learning algorithm that can automatically classify galaxy images. The algorithm is first trained using a manually classified images of elliptical, spiral, and edge-on galaxies. A large set of image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Lior Shamir

We explore unsupervised machine learning for galaxy morphology analyses using a combination of feature extraction with a vector-quantised variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE) and hierarchical clustering (HC). We propose a new methodology that…

Various galaxy merger detection methods have been applied to diverse datasets. However, it is difficult to understand how they compare. We aim to benchmark the relative performance of machine learning (ML) merger detection methods. We…

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