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Nowadays there is no field research which is not flooded with data. Among the sciences, Astrophysics has always been driven by the analysis of massive amounts of data. The development of new and more sophisticated observation facilities,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Mauro Garofalo , Alessio Botta , Giorgio Ventre

We propose a Multimodal Machine Learning method for estimating the Photometric Redshifts of quasars (PhotoRedshift-MML for short), which has long been the subject of many investigations. Our method includes two main models, i.e. the feature…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Shuxin Hong , Zhiqiang Zou , A-Li Luo , Xiao Kong , Wenyu Yang , Yanli Chen

The availability of large, public, multi-modal astronomical datasets presents an opportunity to execute novel research that straddles the line between science of AI and science of astronomy. Photometric redshift estimation is a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 Andrew Engel , Gautham Narayan , Nell Byler

Astronomy is increasingly encountering two fundamental truths: (1) The field is faced with the task of extracting useful information from extremely large, complex, and high dimensional datasets; (2) The techniques of astroinformatics and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-28 Nicholas M. Ball

The application of machine learning in solar physics has the potential to greatly enhance our understanding of the complex processes that take place in the atmosphere of the Sun. By using techniques such as deep learning, we are now in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 A. Asensio Ramos , M. C. M. Cheung , I. Chifu , R. Gafeira

Aims. We explore machine learning techniques to forecast star formation rate, stellar mass, and metallicity across galaxies with redshifts ranging from 0.01 to 0.3. Methods. Leveraging CatBoost and deep learning architectures, we utilize…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-27 F. Z. Zeraatgari , F. Hafezianzadeh , Y. -X. Zhang , A. Mosallanezhad , J. -Y. Zhang

Astronomy is entering an era of data-driven discovery, due in part to modern machine learning (ML) techniques enabling powerful new ways to interpret observations. This shift in our scientific approach requires us to consider whether we can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-30 Michelle Ntampaka , Matthew Ho , Brian Nord

In the modern galaxy surveys photometric redshifts play a central role in a broad range of studies, from gravitational lensing and dark matter distribution to galaxy evolution. Using a dataset of about 25,000 galaxies from the second data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Stefano Cavuoti , Crescenzo Tortora , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Longo , Mario Radovich , Nicola R. Napolitano , Valeria Amaro , Civita Vellucci

Wide-area imaging surveys are one of the key ways of advancing our understanding of cosmology, galaxy formation physics, and the large-scale structure of the Universe in the coming years. These surveys typically require calculating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-07 P. W. Hatfield , I. A. Almosallam , M. J. Jarvis , N. Adams , R. A. A. Bowler , Z. Gomes , S. J. Roberts , C. Schreiber

Classification is a popular task in the field of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and it happens when outputs are categorical variables. There are a wide variety of models that attempts to draw some conclusions from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi

We apply machine learning in the form of a nearest neighbor instance-based algorithm (NN) to generate full photometric redshift probability density functions (PDFs) for objects in the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS…

Three-dimensional wide-field galaxy surveys are fundamental for cosmological studies. For higher redshifts (z > 1.0), where galaxies are too faint, quasars still trace the large-scale structure of the Universe. Since available telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Sándor Kunsági-Máté , Róbert Beck , István Szapudi , István Csabai

In this work, we identify elements of effective machine learning datasets in astronomy and present suggestions for their design and creation. Machine learning has become an increasingly important tool for analyzing and understanding the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Bernie Boscoe , Tuan Do , Evan Jones , Yunqi Li , Kevin Alfaro , Christy Ma

We live in momentous times. The science community is empowered with an arsenal of cosmic messengers to study the Universe in unprecedented detail. Gravitational waves, electromagnetic waves, neutrinos and cosmic rays cover a wide range of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 E. A. Huerta , Zhizhen Zhao

Photometric redshifts play an important role as a measure of distance for various cosmological topics. Spectroscopic redshifts are only available for a very limited number of objects but can be used for creating statistical models. A broad…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kai Lars Polsterer , Antonio D'Isanto , Fabian Gieseke

Over the past 30 years, numerous large-scale photometric astronomical surveys have been conducted, including SDSS, Pan-STARRS, Gaia,2MASS, WISE, and others. These surveys provide extensive photometric measurements that can be used to infer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Mateusz Kapusta

This paper explores the application of machine learning methods for classifying astronomical sources using photometric data, including normal and emission line galaxies (ELGs; starforming, starburst, AGN, broad line), quasars, and stars. We…

Observing celestial objects and advancing our scientific knowledge about them involves tedious planning, scheduling, data collection and data post-processing. Many of these operational aspects of astronomy are guided and executed by expert…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-20 Sarod Yatawatta

Machine learning, and eventually true artificial intelligence techniques, are extremely important advancements in astrophysics and astronomy. We explore the application of deep learning using neural networks in order to automate the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-29 James Bird , Kellan Colburn , Linda Petzold , Philip Lubin

A new approach to estimating photometric redshifts - using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) - is investigated. Unlike the standard template-fitting photometric redshift technique, a large spectroscopically-identified training set is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew E. Firth , Ofer Lahav , Rachel S. Somerville