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We investigate and demonstrate the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the task of distinguishing between merging and non-merging galaxies in simulated images, and for the first time at high redshifts (i.e. $z=2$). We extract…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-28 A. Ćiprijanović , G. F. Snyder , B. Nord , J. E. G. Peek

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

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

Knowing the redshift of galaxies is one of the first requirements of many cosmological experiments, and as it's impossible to perform spectroscopy for every galaxy being observed, photometric redshift (photo-z) estimations are still of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Ben Henghes , Connor Pettitt , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Tony Hey , Ofer Lahav

Galaxy clusters appear as extended sources in XMM-Newton images, but not all extended sources are clusters. So, their proper classification requires visual inspection with optical images, which is a slow process with biases that are almost…

We study the usage of EfficientNets and their applications to Galaxy Morphology Classification. We explore the usage of EfficientNets into predicting the vote fractions of the 79,975 testing images from the Galaxy Zoo 2 challenge on Kaggle.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Shreyas Kalvankar , Hrushikesh Pandit , Pranav Parwate

Contamination from galaxy fragments, identified as sources, is a major issue in large photometric galaxy catalogs. In this paper, we prove that this problem can be easily addressed with computer vision techniques. We use image cutouts to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-01 Enrico M. Di Teodoro , Josh E. G. Peek , John F. Wu

Image classification is a fundamental application in computer vision. Recently, deeper networks and highly connected networks have shown state of the art performance for image classification tasks. Most datasets these days consist of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Shreyank N Gowda , Chun Yuan

State-of-the-art radio observatories produce large amounts of data which can be used to study the properties of radio galaxies. However, with this rapid increase in data volume, it has become unrealistic to manually process all of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Kevin Brand , Trienko L. Grobler , Waldo Kleynhans , Mattia Vaccari , Matthew Prescott , Burger Becker

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

Citizen science is gaining popularity as a valuable tool for labelling large collections of astronomical images by the general public. This is often achieved at the cost of poorer quality classifications made by amateur participants, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-05 Manuel Jimenez , Emilio J. Alfaro , Mercedes Torres Torres , Isaac Triguero

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

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

We present the results of a proof-of-concept experiment which demonstrates that deep learning can successfully be used for production-scale classification of compact star clusters detected in HST UV-optical imaging of nearby spiral galaxies…

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

Distinguishing galaxies as either fast or slow rotators plays a vital role in understanding the processes behind galaxy formation and evolution. Standard techniques, which are based on the $\lambda_R$-spin parameter obtained from stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 Amirmohammad Chegeni , Fatemeh Fazel Hesar , Mojtaba Raouf , Bernard Foing , Fons J. Verbeek

Classifying the morphologies of galaxies is an important step in understanding their physical properties and evolutionary histories. The advent of large-scale surveys has hastened the need to develop techniques for automated morphological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-28 Mitchell K. Cavanagh , Kenji Bekki , Brent A. Groves

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…