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Modern cosmological surveys such as the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey produce a huge volume of low-resolution images of both distant galaxies and dim stars in our own galaxy. Being able to automatically classify these images is a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Imène R. Goumiri , Amanda L. Muyskens , Michael D. Schneider , Benjamin W. Priest , Robert E. Armstrong

With the advent of next-generation surveys and the expectation of discovering huge numbers of strong gravitational lens systems, much effort is being invested into developing automated procedures for handling the data. The several orders of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Jacob Maresca , Simon Dye , Nan Li

At high redshift, due to both observational limitations and the variety of galaxy morphologies in the early universe, measuring galaxy structure can be challenging. Non-parametric measurements such as the CAS system have thus become an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-08 C. Tohill , L. Ferreira , C. J. Conselice , S. P. Bamford , F. Ferrari

This paper introduces a novel sector-based methodology for star-galaxy classification, leveraging the latest Sloan Digital Sky Survey data (SDSS-DR18). By strategically segmenting the sky into sectors aligned with SDSS observational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Anumanchi Agastya Sai Ram Likhit , Divyansh Tripathi , Akshay Agarwal

$\textbf{Aims}$. With the ever-increasing survey speed of optical wide-field telescopes and the importance of discovering transients when they are still young, rapid and reliable source localization is paramount. We present…

Over the last two decades, machine learning models have been widely applied and have proven effective in classifying variable stars, particularly with the adoption of deep learning architectures such as convolutional neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Francisco Pérez-Galarce , Jorge Martínez-Palomera , Karim Pichara , Pablo Huijse , Márcio Catelan

Due to the ever-expanding volume of observed spectroscopic data from surveys such as SDSS and LAMOST, it has become important to apply artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for analysing stellar spectra to solve spectral classification…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Kaushal Sharma , Ajit Kembhavi , Aniruddha Kembhavi , T. Sivarani , Sheelu Abraham , Kaustubh Vaghmare

The importance of using fast and automatic methods to classify variable stars for large amounts of data is undeniable. There have been many attempts to classify variable stars by traditional algorithms like Random Forest. In recent years,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-31 Mahdi Abdollahi , Nooshin Torabi , Sadegh Raeisi , Sohrab Rahvar

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 present a systematic search for wide-separation (Einstein radius >1.5"), galaxy-scale strong lenses in the 30 000 sq.deg of the Pan-STARRS 3pi survey on the Northern sky. With long time delays of a few days to weeks, such systems are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-08 R. Canameras , S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , S. Taubenberger , T. Meinhardt , L. Leal-Taixe , C. Lemon , K. Rojas , E. Savary

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…

We apply a new deep learning technique to detect, classify, and deblend sources in multi-band astronomical images. We train and evaluate the performance of an artificial neural network built on the Mask R-CNN image processing framework, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-22 Colin J. Burke , Patrick D. Aleo , Yu-Ching Chen , Xin Liu , John R. Peterson , Glenn H. Sembroski , Joshua Yao-Yu Lin

The Zone of Avoidance makes it difficult for astronomers to catalogue galaxies at low latitudes to our galactic plane due to high star densities and extinction. However, having a complete sky map of galaxies is important in a number of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-21 David Jones , Anja Schroeder , Geoff Nitschke

Current synoptic sky surveys monitor large areas of the sky to find variable and transient astronomical sources. As the number of detections per night at a single telescope easily exceeds several thousand, current detection pipelines make…

One of the most relevant problems in the extraction of scientifically useful information from wide field astronomical images (both photographic plates and CCD frames) is the recognition of the objects against a noisy background and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 S. Andreon , G. Gargiulo , G. Longo , R. Tagliaferri , N. Capuano

The redshifts of galaxies are a key attribute that is needed for nearly all extragalactic studies. Since spectroscopic redshifts require additional telescope and human resources, millions of galaxies are known without spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-21 S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , R. Cañameras , S. Taubenberger , T. Meinhardt , L. Leal-Taixé , B. C. Hsieh

Context. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been proven to perform fast classification and detection on natural images and have potential to infer astrophysical parameters on the exponentially increasing amount of sky survey imaging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 J. Bialopetravičius , D. Narbutis , V. Vansevičius

We present and describe a catalog of galaxy photometric redshifts (photo-z's) for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Coadd Data. We use the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique to calculate photo-z's and the Nearest Neighbor Error…

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

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have become the most common solution for automatic image annotation due to their non-parametric nature, good performance, and their accessibility through libraries such as TensorFlow. Among other…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-11 Sanchari Dhar , Lior Shamir