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Conventional galaxy mass estimation methods suffer from model assumptions and degeneracies. Machine learning, which reduces the reliance on such assumptions, can be used to determine how well present-day observations can yield predictions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-27 Jiani Chu , Hongming Tang , Dandan Xu , Shengdong Lu , Richard Long

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

We examine a general framework for visualizing datasets of high (> 2) dimensionality, and demonstrate it using the morphology of galaxies at moderate redshifts. The distributions of various populations of such galaxies are examined in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Naim , K. U. Ratnatunga , R. E. Griffiths

We present a convolutional neural network to classify distinct cosmological scenarios based on the statistically similar weak-lensing maps they generate. Modified gravity (MG) models that include massive neutrinos can mimic the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Austin Peel , Florian Lalande , Jean-Luc Starck , Valeria Pettorino , Julian Merten , Carlo Giocoli , Massimo Meneghetti , Marco Baldi

In this paper, the fourth version the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-4), Data Release 16 dataset was used to classify the SDSS dataset into galaxies, stars, and quasars using machine learning and deep learning architectures. We efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Sabeesh Ethiraj , Bharath Kumar Bolla

We measure the influence of image augmentations and training dataset size when training a deep neural network to classify galaxy morphology. Data augmentation is an integral step when training machine learning models and often astronomers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Leon H. Butterworth , Ashley Spindler

We analyze the environmental dependence of galaxy morphology and colour with two-point clustering statistics, using data from the Galaxy Zoo, the largest sample of visually classified morphologies yet compiled, extracted from the Sloan…

In Astrophysics, the identification of candidate Globular Clusters through deep, wide-field, single band HST images, is a typical data analytics problem, where methods based on Machine Learning have revealed a high efficiency and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-12 Giuseppe Angora , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Riccio , Stefano Cavuoti , Maurizio Paolillo , Thomas H. Puzia

In our previous works, we proposed a machine learning framework named \texttt{USmorph} for efficiently classifying galaxy morphology. In this study, we propose a self-supervised method called contrastive learning to upgrade the unsupervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Shiwei Zhu , Guanwen Fang , Chichun Zhou , Jie Song , Zesen Lin , Yao Dai , Xu Kong

Hyper-spectral images are images captured from a satellite that gives spatial and spectral information of specific region.A Hyper-spectral image contains much more number of channels as compared to a RGB image, hence containing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Uphar Singh , Tushar Musale , Ranjana Vyas , O. P. Vyas

Efficiently implementing remote sensing image classification with high spatial resolution imagery can provide a significant value in Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) classification. The new advances in remote sensing and deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Raoof Naushad , Tarunpreet Kaur , Ebrahim Ghaderpour

In order to obtain morphological information of unlabeled galaxies, we present an unsupervised machine-learning (UML) method for morphological classification of galaxies, which can be summarized as two aspects: (1) the methodology of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-02 C. C. Zhou , Y. Z. Gu , G. W. Fang , Z. S. Lin

The widespread dissemination of machine learning tools in science, particularly in astronomy, has revealed the limitation of working with simple single-task scenarios in which any task in need of a predictive model is looked in isolation,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-27 Ricardo Vilalta

We present a new method to classify galaxies from large surveys like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using inclination-corrected concentration, inclination-corrected location on the color-magnitude diagram, and apparent axis ratio. Explicitly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeremy Bailin , William E. Harris

We examine morphology-separated color-mass diagrams to study the quenching of star formation in $\sim 100,000$ ($z\sim0$) Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and $\sim 20,000$ ($z\sim1$) Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-29 Aritra Ghosh , C. Megan Urry , Zhengdong Wang , Kevin Schawinski , Dennis Turp , Meredith C. Powell

All-sky radio surveys are set to revolutionise the field with new discoveries. However, the vast majority of the tens of millions of radio galaxies won't have the spectroscopic redshift measurements required for a large number of science…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 Kieran J. Luken , Ray P. Norris , Laurence A. F. Park , X. Rosalind Wang , Miroslav D. Filipovic

Climate change has been a common interest and the forefront of crucial political discussion and decision-making for many years. Shallow clouds play a significant role in understanding the Earth's climate, but they are challenging to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Tashin Ahmed , Noor Hossain Nuri Sabab

Machine learning is a field that has been growing in importance since the early 2010s due to the increasing accuracy of classification models and hardware advances that have enabled faster training on large datasets. In the field of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Alexis Mathis , Daniel Yu , Nolan Faught , Tyrian Hobbs.

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…

As we enter the era of large imaging surveys such as $\textit{Roman}$, Rubin, and $\textit{Euclid}$, a deeper understanding of potential biases and selection effects in optical astronomical catalogs created with the use of ML-based methods…