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A new method of determining galaxy star-formation histories (SFHs) is presented. Using the method, the feasibility of recovering SFHs with multi-band photometry is investigated. The method divides a galaxy's history into discrete time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Dye

Much of the science that is made possible by multiwavelength redshift surveys requires the use of photometric redshifts. But as these surveys become more ambitious, and as we seek to perform increasingly accurate measurements, it becomes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 Ryan F. Quadri , Rik J. Williams

We present a Bayesian hierarchical framework to analyze photometric galaxy survey data with stellar population synthesis (SPS) models. Our method couples robust modeling of spectral energy distributions with a population model and a noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Boris Leistedt , Justin Alsing , Hiranya Peiris , Daniel Mortlock , Joel Leja

We present a new method for inferring photometric redshifts in deep galaxy and quasar surveys, based on a data driven model of latent spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and a physical model of photometric fluxes as a function of redshift.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Boris Leistedt , David W. Hogg

We present a quantitative method to classify galaxies, based on multi-wavelength data and elaborated from the properties of nearby galaxies. Our objective is to define an evolutionary method that can be used for low and high redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Sebastien Lauger , Denis Burgarella , Veronique Buat

We present a robust method to estimate the redshift of galaxies using Pan-STARRS1 photometric data. Our method is an adaptation of the one proposed by Beck et al. (2016) for the SDSS Data Release 12. It uses a training set of 2313724…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Paula Tarrío , Stefano Zarattini

The body of photometric and astrometric data on stars in the Galaxy has been growing very fast in recent years (Hipparcos/Tycho, OGLE-3, 2-Mass, DENIS, UCAC2, SDSS, RAVE, Pan Starrs, Hermes, ...) and in two years ESA will launch the Gaia…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-16 James Binney

One of the most important properties of a galaxy is the total stellar mass, or equivalently the stellar mass-to-light ratio (M/L). It is not directly observable, but can be estimated from stellar population synthesis. Currently, a galaxy's…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-24 Wouter Dobbels , Serge Krier , Stephan Pirson , Sébastien Viaene , Gert De Geyter , Samir Salim , Maarten Baes

Most existing star-galaxy classifiers use the reduced summary information from catalogs, requiring careful feature extraction and selection. The latest advances in machine learning that use deep convolutional neural networks allow a machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 Edward J. Kim , Robert J. Brunner

Each galaxy is observed only once along its life, making galaxy evolution fundamentally an inverse statistical problem: time-dependent physics must be inferred from ensembles of single-epoch snapshots. To move beyond descriptive scaling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Sandro Tacchella , Vasily Belokurov , Harry T. J. Bevins , Roberto Maiolino , Hiranya V. Peiris , Lucia Pozzetti , Mark T. Sargent

We develop a data-driven model to map stellar parameters (effective temperature, surface gravity and metallicity) accurately and precisely to broad-band stellar photometry. This model must, and does, simultaneously constrain the…

The intrinsic scatter in the ellipticities of galaxies about the mean shape, known as "shape noise," is the most important source of noise in weak lensing shear measurements. Several approaches to reducing shape noise have recently been put…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-21 Rupert A. C. Croft , Peter E. Freeman , Thomas S. Schuster , Chad M. Schafer

We have investigated some statistical properties of integrated spectra of galaxies from Kennicutt (1992a) spectrophotometric atlas. The input for the analysis are galaxy spectra sampled in 1300 bins between 3750 \AA~ and 6500 \AA. We make…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Laerte Sodre , Hector Cuevas

This chapter reviews the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to the study of galaxy clusters, covering both theoretical developments and their use as tools to infer cluster properties from a variety of observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Gustavo Yepes , Daniel de Andrés

Galaxy physical properties-such as star formation rate (SFR), stellar mass, and gas-phase metallicity-are essential for population studies and evolutionary analyses. Deriving these quantities for billions of galaxies in modern imaging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-20 Shirui Wei , Changhua Li , Yanxia Zhang , Chenzhou Cui , Jinghang Shi , Wujun Shao , Zihan Kang , Yongheng Zhao , Maoyuan Huang

Temporal and spectral information extracted from a stream of photons received from astronomical sources is the foundation on which we build understanding of various objects and processes in the Universe. Typically astronomers fit a number…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-18 T. N. Ukwatta , P. R. Wozniak

Narrowband galaxy surveys have recently gained interest as a promising method to achieve the necessary accuracy on the photometric redshift estimate of individual galaxies for stage-IV cosmological surveys. One key advantage is the ability…

A new generative technique is presented in this paper that uses Deep Learning to reconstruct stellar spectra based on a set of stellar parameters. Two different Neural Networks were trained allowing the generation of new spectra. First, an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Marwan Gebran

We demonstrate a new statistical method of determining the global photometric properties of the Milky Way (MW) to an unprecedented degree of accuracy, allowing our Galaxy to be compared directly to objects measured in extragalactic surveys.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-20 Timothy C. Licquia , Jeffrey A. Newman , Jarle Brinchmann

Much of our current understanding of neutral, atomic gas in galaxies comes from radio observations of the nearby Universe. Until the next generation of instruments allow us to push to much higher redshifts, we must rely mostly upon…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-02 E. C. Elson , S. L. Blyth , A. J. Baker