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In the next decade, the LSST will become a major facility for the astronomical community. However accurately determining the redshifts of the observed galaxies without using spectroscopy is a major challenge. Reconstruction of the redshifts…

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State of the art methods in astronomical image reconstruction rely on the resolution of a regularized or constrained optimization problem. Solving this problem can be computationally intensive and usually leads to a quadratic or at least…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Rémi Flamary

The possibility to constrain cosmological parameters from galaxy surveys using field-level machine learning methods that bypass traditional summary statistics analyses, depends crucially on our ability to generate simulated training sets.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Iñigo Sáez-Casares , Matteo Calabrese , Davide Bianchi , Marina S. Cagliari , Marco Chiarenza , Jean-Marc Christille , Luigi Guzzo

We exploit the great potential offered by Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) to directly decipher the internal composition of neutron stars (NSs) based on their macroscopic properties. By analyzing a set of simulated observations, namely NS…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-15 Valéria Carvalho , Márcio Ferreira , Tuhin Malik , Constança Providência

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will provide an opportunity to study dark energy with unprecedented precision and accuracy using several techniques, including measurements of high-$z$ Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia, $z \lesssim…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Lauren Aldoroty , Daniel Scolnic , Arun Kannawadi , Rob Knop , Benjamin Rose , Rebekah Hounsell , Michael Troxel

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

This paper presents a method for estimating the resolution of a digital holographic microscope using neural network analysis of reconstructed images. The spectral bandwidth of the source ($\Delta \lambda$) is used as a controlled image…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-12 A. G. Fedorov

Deep Learning models have been increasingly exploited in astrophysical studies, yet such data-driven algorithms are prone to producing biased outputs detrimental for subsequent analyses. In this work, we investigate two major forms of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Q. Lin , D. Fouchez , J. Pasquet , M. Treyer , R. Ait Ouahmed , S. Arnouts , O. Ilbert

We present a neural network based approach to the determination of photometric redshift. The method was tested on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Data Release (SDSS-EDR) reaching an accuracy comparable and, in some cases, better than SED…

In order to retrieve cosmological parameters from photometric surveys, we need to estimate the distribution of the photometric redshift in the sky with excellent accuracy. We use and apply three different machine learning methods to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Elcio Abdalla , Filipe B. Abdalla , Alessandro Marins , Amilcar Queiroz , Rafael M. Ribeiro , Alex S. C. Souza

In this, the second in a series of three papers concerning the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey, we describe the methods for image detection, parameterisation, classification and photometry. We demonstrate the internal and external accuracy of our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 Nigel Hambly , Mike Irwin , Harvey MacGillivray

We present a neural network classification (NNC) method for photometric redshift estimation that produces well-calibrated redshift probability density functions (PDFs). The method discretizes the redshift space into ordered bins and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-08 Da-Chuan Tian , Zhong-Lue Wen , Jun-Qing Xia

Artificial neural networks (ANN) have different applications in Astronomy, including data reduction and data mining. In this work we propose the use ANNs in the identification of stellar model solutions. We illustrate this method, by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 F. J. G. Pinheiro , T. Simas , J. Fernandes , R. Ribeiro

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

The measurement of galaxy morphological parameters from astronomical images features in a wide range of modern analyses, including galaxy evolution and cosmological weak lensing studies. The precision and accuracy of morphological parameter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Samuel Kahn , Ryan Hausen , Hubert Bretonnière , Nicole Drakos , Brant Robertson

Photometric surveys with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) allow us to study stellar populations with high resolution and deep coverage, with estimates of the physical parameters of the constituent stars being typically obtained by comparing…

Physics-informed neural networks (NN) are an emerging technique to improve spatial resolution and enforce physical consistency of data from physics models or satellite observations. A super-resolution (SR) technique is explored to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chulin Wang , Eloisa Bentivegna , Wang Zhou , Levente Klein , Bruce Elmegreen

We propose a new method for solving an important problem of astronomy that arises in observations with ultrahigh-angular-resolution interferometers. This method is based on the application of the theory of artificial neural networks. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Alexander Shatskiy , Ivan Evgeniev

We explore the effectiveness of deep learning convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for estimating strong gravitational lens mass model parameters. We have investigated a number of practicalities faced when modelling real image data, such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 James Pearson , Nan Li , Simon Dye

Star trackers are one of the most accurate celestial sensors used for absolute attitude determination. The devices detect stars in captured images and accurately compute their projected centroids on an imaging focal plane with subpixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Hongrui Zhao , Michael F. Lembeck , Adrian Zhuang , Riya Shah , Jesse Wei