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The rapid increase in data on galaxy images at low and high redshift calls for re-examination of the classification schemes and for new automatic objective methods. Here we present a classification method by Artificial Neural Networks. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ofer Lahav

We present a systematic search for wide-separation (Einstein radius >1.5"), galaxy-scale strong lenses in the 30 000 sq.deg of the Pan-STARRS 3pi survey on the Northern sky. With long time delays of a few days to weeks, such systems are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-08 R. Canameras , S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , S. Taubenberger , T. Meinhardt , L. Leal-Taixe , C. Lemon , K. Rojas , E. Savary

We present the first results of our dedicated programme of automatised classification of galaxies, stars and quasars in the mid-infrared all-sky data from the WISE survey. We employ the Support Vector Machines (SVM) algorithm, which defines…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-14 Agnieszka Kurcz , Magdalena Krupa , Maciej Bilicki , Aleksandra Solarz , Agnieszka Pollo , Katarzyna Małek

Accurate redshift estimates are a vital component in understanding galaxy evolution and precision cosmology. In this paper, we explore approaches to increase the applicability of machine learning models for photometric redshift estimation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jonathan Soriano , Tuan Do , Srinath Saikrishnan , Vikram Seenivasan , Bernie Boscoe , Jack Singal , Evan Jones

We present a machine learning model to classify Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and galaxies (AGN-galaxy classifier) and a model to identify type 1 (optically unabsorbed) and type 2 (optically absorbed) AGN (type 1/2 classifier). We test…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Serena Falocco , Francisco J. Carrera , Josefin Larsson

The galaxy phase-space distribution in galaxy clusters provides insights into the formation and evolution of cluster galaxies, and it can also be used to measure cluster mass profiles. We present a dynamical study based on $\sim$3000…

Galaxy morphology, a key tracer of the evolution of a galaxy's physical structure, has motivated extensive research on machine learning techniques for efficient and accurate galaxy classification. The emergence of quantum computers has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-08 Mohammad Hassan Hassanshahi , Marcin Jastrzebski , Sarah Malik , Ofer Lahav

To address the challenge of estimating redshifts when only single-band images are available, this study introduces a deep learning model named ViT-MDNz. Leveraging robust statistical priors learned from large-scale data concerning the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-27 Zhijian Luo , Yangyang Li , Jianzhen Chen , Qishen Cao , Duo Cao , Shaohua Zhang , Hubing Xiao , Chenggang Shu

Semi-analytic models are a widely used approach to simulate galaxy properties within a cosmological framework, relying on simplified yet physically motivated prescriptions. They have also proven to be an efficient alternative for generating…

We apply Support Vector Machines -- a machine learning algorithm -- to the task of classifying structures in the Interstellar Medium. As a case study, we present a position-position velocity data cube of 12 CO J=3--2 emission towards…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Christopher N. Beaumont , Jonathan P. Williams , Alyssa A. Goodman

Galaxy clusters are the largest self-gravitational systems in the Universe. They are valuable probes of the structure growth of the Universe when we estimate their peculiar velocities with the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effects. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-03 Kaiyi Du , Yong Shi , Tao Wang , Chenggang Shu

Merging galaxies play a key role in galaxy evolution, and progress in our understanding of galaxy evolution is slowed by the difficulty of making accurate galaxy merger identifications. We use GADGET-3 hydrodynamical simulations of merging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Nevin , R. , Blecha , L. , Comerford , J. , Greene , J

We present Classification of Cluster GAlaxy MEmbers (C$^2$-GaMe), a classification algorithm based on a suite of machine learning models that differentiates galaxies into orbiting, infalling, and background (interloper) populations, using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-25 Daniel Farid , Han Aung , Daisuke Nagai , Arya Farahi , Eduardo Rozo

We present a bright galaxy sample with accurate and precise photometric redshifts (photo-zs), selected using $ugriZYJHK_\mathrm{s}$ photometry from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) Data Release 4 (DR4). The highly pure and complete dataset is…

We introduce Z-Sequence, a novel empirical model that utilises photometric measurements of observed galaxies within a specified search radius to estimate the photometric redshift of galaxy clusters. Z-Sequence itself is composed of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-26 Matthew C. Chan , John P. Stott

Understanding morphological types of galaxies is a key parameter for studying their formation and evolution. Neural networks that have been used previously for galaxy morphology classification have some disadvantages, such as not being…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Reza Katebi , Yadi Zhou , Ryan Chornock , Razvan Bunescu

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

The evolutionary classification of molecular clumps, crucial for understanding star formation, is commonly based on human-assigned categories derived from infrared (IR) emission and well-established morphological criteria. However, due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-27 K. V. Plakitina , M. S. Kirsanova , A. B. Ostrovskii , A. D. Gimalieva , S. V. Salii , A. V. Meshcheryakov

We revisit the evolution of galaxy morphology in the COSMOS field over the redshift range $0.2\leq z \leq 1$, using a large and complete sample of 33,605 galaxies with a stellar mass of log($M_{\ast}$/M$_{\odot} )>9.5$ with significantly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-29 Jian Ren , Nan Li , F. S. Liu , Qifan Cui , Mingxiang Fu , Xian Zhong Zheng

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…

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