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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

The distinction between stars and galaxies is a fundamental problem in the field of celestial classification. This issue has become challenging for these ongoing and upcoming digital surveys, which will produce terabytes and even petabytes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Zhuoming Han , Tianmeng Zhang , Chao Liu , Chenxiaoji Ling

The Chinese Space Station Telescope (abbreviated as CSST) is a future advanced space telescope. Real-time identification of galaxy and nebula/star cluster (abbreviated as NSC) images is of great value during CSST survey. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Yuquan Zhang , Zhong Cao , Feng Wang , Lam , Man I , Hui Deng , Ying Mei , Lei Tan

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) aims to map the universe across an unprecedented dynamic range of stellar densities, spanning from extragalactic voids to the crowded Galactic center (e.g. a few stars and galaxies in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jinzhi Lai , Man I Lam , Jianjun Chen , Xin Zhang , Hao Tian , Xiaohan Chen , Jialu Nie , Ming Yang , Chao Liu

We present a machine learning (ML) pipeline to identify star clusters in the multi{color images of nearby galaxies, from observations obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Treasury Project LEGUS (Legacy ExtraGalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 Gustavo Perez , Matteo Messa , Daniela Calzetti , Subhransu Maji , Dooseok Jung , Angela Adamo , Mattia Siressi

Aims. Traditional star-galaxy classification techniques often rely on feature estimation from catalogues, a process susceptible to introducing inaccuracies, thereby potentially jeopardizing the classification's reliability. Certain…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 F. Stoppa , S. Bhattacharyya , R. Ruiz de Austri , P. Vreeswijk , S. Caron , G. Zaharijas , S. Bloemen , G. Principe , D. Malyshev , V. Vodeb , P. J. Groot , E. Cator , G. Nelemans

We present an unsupervised machine learning technique that automatically segments and labels galaxies in astronomical imaging surveys using only pixel data. Distinct from previous unsupervised machine learning approaches used in astronomy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Alex Hocking , James E. Geach , Yi Sun , Neil Davey

In our previous works, we proposed a machine learning framework named \texttt{USmorph} for efficiently classifying galaxy morphology. In this study, we propose a self-supervised method called contrastive learning to upgrade the unsupervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Shiwei Zhu , Guanwen Fang , Chichun Zhou , Jie Song , Zesen Lin , Yao Dai , Xu Kong

There exist a variety of star-galaxy classification techniques, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. In this paper, we present a novel meta-classification framework that combines and fully exploits different techniques to produce a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-20 Edward J. Kim , Robert J. Brunner , Matias Carrasco Kind

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

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies is a powerful tool for studying cosmology and galaxy structure. The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) will revolutionize this field by discovering up to $\sim$100,000 galaxy-scale strong lenses, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Hengyu Wu , Yun Chen , Tonghua Liu , Xiaoyue Cao , Tian Li , Hui Li , Nan Li , Ran Li , Tengpeng Xu

We present the results of a proof-of-concept experiment which demonstrates that deep learning can successfully be used for production-scale classification of compact star clusters detected in HST UV-optical imaging of nearby spiral galaxies…

In this work we explore the possibility of applying machine learning methods designed for one-dimensional problems to the task of galaxy image classification. The algorithms used for image classification typically rely on multiple costly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 F. Tarsitano , C. Bruderer , K. Schawinski , W. G. Hartley

We present a novel approach for classifying stars as binary or exoplanet using deep learning techniques. Our method utilizes feature extraction, wavelet transformation, and a neural network on the light curves of stars to achieve…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-22 Aman Kumar , Sarvesh Gharat

Classification will be an important first step for upcoming surveys that will detect billions of new sources such as LSST and Euclid, as well as DESI, 4MOST and MOONS. The application of traditional methods of model fitting and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 Crispin Logan , Sotiria Fotopoulou

(abridged) Mass loss is a key parameter in the evolution of massive stars, with discrepancies between theory and observations and with unknown importance of the episodic mass loss. To address this we need increased numbers of classified…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Grigoris Maravelias , Alceste Z. Bonanos , Frank Tramper , Stephan de Wit , Ming Yang , Paolo Bonfini

Context. The accurate classification of hundreds of thousands of galaxies observed in modern deep surveys is imperative if we want to understand the universe and its evolution. Aims. Here, we report the use of machine learning techniques to…

The immense amount of time series data produced by astronomical surveys has called for the use of machine learning algorithms to discover and classify several million celestial sources. In the case of variable stars, supervised learning…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 R. Pantoja , M. Catelan , K. Pichara , P. Protopapas

The environment plays a critical role in galaxy evolution, with galaxy clusters and their infall regions offering diverse conditions that shape galaxies before they enter the dense cluster core, a process known as ``pre-processing''.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-15 Rhys Jordan , Meghan E. Gray , Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca , Steven P. Bamford , Frazer R. Pearce , Roan Haggar

In Astronomy, a huge amount of image data is generated daily by photometric surveys, which scan the sky to collect data from stars, galaxies and other celestial objects. In this paper, we propose a technique to leverage unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Ana Martinazzo , Mateus Espadoto , Nina S. T. Hirata
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