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Morphological classification is a key piece of information to define samples of galaxies aiming to study the large-scale structure of the universe. In essence, the challenge is to build up a robust methodology to perform a reliable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-05 P. H. Barchi , R. R. de Carvalho , R. R. Rosa , R. Sautter , M. Soares-Santos , B. A. D. Marques , E. Clua , T. S. Gonçalves , C. de Sá-Freitas , T. C. Moura

We present the results of an extensive search for dwarf satellite galaxies around 10 primary host galaxies in the Local Volume (D$<$12 Mpc) using archival CFHT/MegaCam imaging data. The hosts span a wide range in properties, with stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 Scott G. Carlsten , Johnny P. Greco , Rachael L. Beaton , Jenny E. Greene

This paper presents a comprehensive study of quasar photometric classification and redshift estimation using machine learning techniques. We cross-matched photometric data from the Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2 (DES DR2) with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Pablo Motta , Filipe B. Abdalla , Elcio Abdalla , Gabriel S. Costa , Camila Cardoso

Low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies are galaxies with central surface brightness fainter than the night sky. Due to the faint nature of LSB galaxies and the comparable sky background, it is difficult to search LSB galaxies automatically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Zhenping Yi , Jia Li , Wei Du , Meng Liu , Zengxu Liang , Yongguang Xing , Jingchang Pan , Yude Bu , Xiaoming Kong , Hong Wu

We present a preview of the faint dwarf galaxy discoveries that will be possible with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam in the next decade. In this work, we combine deep ground-based images from the Panoramic…

We performed a search for strong lens galaxy-scale systems in the first data release of the Dark Energy Survey (DES), from a color-selected parent sample of 18~745~029 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs). Our search was based on a Convolutional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 K. Rojas , E. Savary , B. Clément , M. Maus , F. Courbin , C. Lemon , J. H. H. Chan , G. Vernardos , R. Joseph , R. Cañameras , A. Galan

As we enter the era of large imaging surveys such as $\textit{Roman}$, Rubin, and $\textit{Euclid}$, a deeper understanding of potential biases and selection effects in optical astronomical catalogs created with the use of ML-based methods…

We investigate the possibility of applying machine learning techniques to images of strongly lensed galaxies to detect a low mass cut-off in the spectrum of dark matter sub-halos within the lens system. We generate lensed images of systems…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Sreedevi Varma , Malcolm Fairbairn , Julio Figueroa

We present a tentative constraint on cosmological parameters $\Omega_m$ and $\sigma_8$ from a joint analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 9 (DR9), covering approximately 10000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 Haojie Xu , Hekun Li , Jun Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Pengjie Zhang , Min He , Yizhou Gu , Jian Qin , Zhaozhou Li , Antonios Katsianis , Ji Yao , Zhaoyu Wang , Yirong Wang , Liping Fu

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

Optical spectra of galaxies and quasars from large cosmological surveys are used to measure redshifts and infer distances. They are also rich with information on the intrinsic properties of these astronomical objects. However, their…

Identifying galaxy groups from redshift surveys of galaxies plays an important role in connecting galaxies with the underlying dark matter distribution. Current and future high-$z$ spectroscopic surveys, usually incomplete in redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Kai Wang , H. J. Mo , Cheng Li , Jiacheng Meng , Yangyao Chen

We employ self-supervised representation learning to distill information from 76 million galaxy images from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Legacy Imaging Surveys' Data Release 9. Targeting the identification of new strong…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-23 George Stein , Jacqueline Blaum , Peter Harrington , Tomislav Medan , Zarija Lukic

The DESI survey will observe more than 8 million candidate luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range $0.3<z<1.0$. Here we present a preliminary version of the DESI LRG target selection developed using Legacy Surveys Data Release 8…

We present the Metadetection weak lensing galaxy shape catalogue from the six-year Dark Energy Survey (DES Y6) imaging data. This dataset is the final release from DES, spanning 4422 deg$^2$ of the southern sky. We describe how the…

The Dwarf Galaxy Survey (DGS) program is studying low-metallicity galaxies using 230h of far-infrared (FIR) and submillimetre (submm) photometric and spectroscopic observations of the Herschel Space Observatory and draws to this a rich…

M dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the Solar Neighborhood and they are prime targets for searching for rocky planets in habitable zones. Consequently, a detailed characterization of these stars is in demand. The spectral sub-type is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-28 Sirinrat Sithajan , Sukanya Meethong

We recover the joint and individual space density and surface brightness distribution(s) of galaxies from the Millennium Galaxy Catalogue. The MGC is a local survey spanning 30.9 sq deg and probing approximately one--two mag/sq arcsec…

This paper explores the application of machine learning methods for classifying astronomical sources using photometric data, including normal and emission line galaxies (ELGs; starforming, starburst, AGN, broad line), quasars, and stars. We…