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Large surveys using modern telescopes are producing images that are increasing exponentially in size and quality. Identifying objects in the generated images by visual recognition is time-consuming and labor-intensive, while classifying the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-28 Baoqiang Lao , Tao An , Ailing Wang , Zhijun Xu , Shaoguang Guo , Weijia Lv , Xiaocong Wu , Yingkang Zhang

We present the application of deep machine learning technique to classify radio images of extended sources on a morphological basis using convolutional neural networks. In this study, we have taken the case of Fanaroff-Riley (FR) class of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Arun Aniyan , Kshitij Thorat

Modern high-sensitivity radio telescopes are discovering an increased number of resolved sources with intricate radio structures and fainter radio emissions. These sources often present a challenge because source detectors might identify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Lara Alegre , Philip Best , Jose Sabater , Huub Rottgering , Martin Hardcastle , Wendy Williams

In this paper we present three different applications, based on deep learning methodologies, that we are developing to support the scientific analysis conducted within the ASKAP-EMU and MeerKAT radio surveys. One employs instance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 S. Riggi , T. Cecconello , U. Becciani , F. Vitello

Source finding is one of the most challenging tasks in upcoming radio continuum surveys with SKA precursors, such as the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) survey of the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope. The resolution,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 S. Riggi , D. Magro , R. Sortino , A. De Marco , C. Bordiu , T. Cecconello , A. M. Hopkins , J. Marvil , G. Umana , E. Sciacca , F. Vitello , F. Bufano , A. Ingallinera , G. Fiameni , C. Spampinato , K. Zarb Adami

Vision Transformers are used via a customized TransUNet architecture, which is a hybrid model combining Transformers into a U-Net backbone, to achieve precise, automated, and fast segmentation of radio astronomy data affected by calibration…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Nicoletta Sanvitale , Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Annalisa Bonafede , Virginia Cuciti , Emanuele De Rubeis , Federica Govoni , Matteo Murgia , Valentina Vacca

The forthcoming generation of radio telescope arrays promises significant advancements in sensitivity and resolution, enabling the identification and characterization of many new faint and diffuse radio sources. Conventional manual…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Chiara Stuardi , Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Andrea Botteon

The 21 cm spectral line emission of atomic neutral hydrogen (HI) is one of the primary wavelengths observed in radio astronomy. However, the signal is intrinsically faint and the HI content of galaxies depends on the cosmic environment,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 J. A. Barkai , M. A. W. Verheijen , E. T. Martínez , M. H. F. Wilkinson

We propose a machine-learning-based technique to determine the number density of radio sources as a function of their flux density, for use in next-generation radio surveys. The method uses a convolutional neural network trained on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Elisa Todarello , Andre Scaffidi , Marco Regis , Marco Taoso

We present a wide-area and deep optical identification catalog for radio sources based on the VLASS Epoch 2 catalog at 3 GHz. Optical counterparts are identified using the final-year internal processing of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru…

Upcoming surveys with new radio observatories such as the Square Kilometer Array will generate a wealth of imaging data containing large numbers of radio galaxies. Different classes of radio galaxies can be used as tracers of the cosmic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-30 Wathela Alhassan , A. R. Taylor , Mattia Vaccari

Identifying neutral hydrogen (\hi) galaxies from observational data is a significant challenge in \hi\ galaxy surveys. With the advancement of observational technology, especially with the advent of large-scale telescope projects such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Zihao Song , Huaxi Chen , Donghui Quan , Di Li , Yinghui Zheng , Shulei Ni , Yunchuan Chen , Yun Zheng

We present a comparison between the performance of a selection of source finders using a new software tool called Hydra. The companion paper, Paper~I, introduced the Hydra tool and demonstrated its performance using simulated data. Here we…

The morphology of radio galaxies is indicative of their interaction with their surroundings, among other effects. Since modern radio surveys contain a large number of radio sources that would be impossible to analyse and classify manually,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-16 Nicolas Baron Perez , Marcus Brüggen , Gregor Kasieczka , Luisa Lucie-Smith

The upcoming Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will produce images of neutral hydrogen distribution during the epoch of reionization by observing the corresponding 21-cm signal. However, the 21-cm signal will be subject to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Michele Bianco , Sambit. K. Giri , David Prelogović , Tianyue Chen , Florent G. Mertens , Emma Tolley , Andrei Mesinger , Jean-Paul Kneib

Radio source detection through conventional algorithms has been unreliable when trying to solve for large number of sources in the presence of low SINR and less number of snapshots. We address this by reformulating source detection as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-02 Jayakrishnan Vijayamohanan , Arjun Gupta , Oameed Noakoasteen , Sotirios Goudos , Christos Christodoulou

Modern radio telescope surveys, capable of detecting billions of galaxies in wide-field surveys, have made manual morphological classification impracticable. This applies in particular when the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-09 Philipp Denzel , Manuel Weiss , Elena Gavagnin , Frank-Peter Schilling

The head--tail (HT) morphology of radio galaxies is seen for a class of radio sources where the primary lobes are being bent in the intercluster weather due to strong interactions between the radio jets and their respective intracluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-16 Tapan K. Sasmal , Soumen Bera , Sabyasachi Pal , Soumen Mondal

Extended radio sources present unique challenges for automated detection and classification in wide-field radio surveys. With current surveys such as the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU), robust and scalable methods are essential to…

We describe a method to construct continuum spectra for radio sources on the basis of entries from various source catalogues in comparatively large error boxes around a given sky position. Sources from the UTR-2 catalogue (Braude et al.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. V. Verkhodanov , H. Andernach , N. V. Verkhodanova
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