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The success of automatic classification of variable stars strongly depends on the lightcurve representation. Usually, lightcurves are represented as a vector of many statistical descriptors designed by astronomers called features. These…

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Stellar mass is a fundamental quantity that determines the properties and evolution of stars. However, estimating stellar masses in star-forming regions is challenging because young stars are obscured by dense gas and the regions are highly…

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In the last years, Astroinformatics has become a well defined paradigm for many fields of Astronomy. In this work we demonstrate the potential of a multidisciplinary approach to identify globular clusters (GCs) in the Fornax cluster of…

Structural properties posses valuable information about the formation and evolution of galaxies, and are important for understanding the past, present, and future universe. Here we use unsupervised machine learning methodology to analyze a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-26 Andrew Schutter , Lior Shamir

A simple, fully connected neural network with a single hidden layer is used to estimate stellar masses for star-forming galaxies. The model is trained on broad-band photometry - from far-ultraviolet to mid-infrared wavelengths - generated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 E. Elson

Context. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been established as the go-to method for fast object detection and classification on natural images. This opens the door for astrophysical parameter inference on the exponentially…

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Autonomous digital sky surveys such as Pan-STARRS have the ability to image a very large number of galactic and extra-galactic objects, and the large and complex nature of the image data reinforces the use of automation. Here we describe…

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Making mock simulated catalogs is an important component of astrophysical data analysis. Selection criteria for observed astronomical objects are often too complicated to be derived from first principles. However the existence of an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Amir Hajian , Marcelo Alvarez , J. Richard Bond

Highly magnified stars ($\mu$ $>$ 100) are now outinely identified as transient events at cosmological distances thanks to microlensing by intra-cluster stars near the critical curves of galaxy clusters. Using the {\it James Webb} Space…

In many applications, Neural Nets (NNs) have classification performance on par or even exceeding human capacity. Moreover, it is likely that NNs leverage underlying features that might differ from those humans perceive to classify. Can we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Haowen Guan , Xuan Zhao , Zishi Wang , Zhiyang Li , Julia Kempe

Machine learning models can greatly improve the search for strong gravitational lenses in imaging surveys by reducing the amount of human inspection required. In this work, we test the performance of supervised, semi-supervised, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-17 Keerthi Vasan G. C. , Stephen Sheng , Tucker Jones , Chi Po Choi , James Sharpnack

The taxonomy of galaxy morphology is critical in astrophysics as the morphological properties are powerful tracers of galaxy evolution. With the upcoming Large-scale Imaging Surveys, billions of galaxy images challenge astronomers to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Zhirui Zhang , Zhiqiang Zou , Nan Li , Yanli Chen

Stellar light curves contain valuable information about oscillations and granulation, offering insights into stars' internal structures and evolutionary states. Traditional asteroseismic techniques, primarily focused on power spectral…

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Star formation rates (SFRs) are a crucial observational tracer of galaxy formation and evolution. Spectroscopy, which is expensive, is traditionally used to estimate SFRs. This study tests the possibility of inferring SFRs of large samples…

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Unveiling the evolutionary history of galaxies necessitates a precise understanding of their physical properties. Traditionally, astronomers achieve this through spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting. However, this approach can be…

Understanding how galaxies trace the underlying matter density field is essential for characterizing the influence of the large-scale structure on galaxy formation, being therefore a key ingredient in observational cosmology. This…

Information on the spectral types of stars is of great interest in view of the exploitation of space-based imaging surveys. In this article, we investigate the classification of stars into spectral types using only the shape of their…

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A comprehensive study on machine and deep learning techniques for classification of normal and abnormal cervical cells by using pap smear images from Herlev dataset results are presented. This dataset includes 917 images and 7 different…

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We investigate and demonstrate the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the task of distinguishing between merging and non-merging galaxies in simulated images, and for the first time at high redshifts (i.e. $z=2$). We extract…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-28 A. Ćiprijanović , G. F. Snyder , B. Nord , J. E. G. Peek

We have developed a method for fast and accurate stellar population parameters determination in order to apply it to high resolution galaxy spectra. The method is based on an optimization technique that combines active learning with an…

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