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We present an application of unsupervised machine learning - the self-organised map (SOM) - as a tool for visualising, exploring and mining the catalogues of large astronomical surveys. Self-organisation culminates in a low-resolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 James E. Geach

The upcoming galaxy large-scale surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will generate photometry for billions of galaxies. The interpretation of large-scale weak lensing maps, as well as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Alvaro Callejas-Tavera , Erik Molino-Minero-Re , Octavio Valenzuela

We introduce a framework for the enhanced estimation of photometric redshifts using Self-Organising Maps (SOMs). Our method projects galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) onto a two-dimensional map, identifying regions that are…

We present a novel method to estimate galaxy physical properties from spectral energy distributions (SEDs), alternate to template fitting techniques and based on self-organizing maps (SOM) to learn the high-dimensional manifold of a…

We use multi-band optical and near-infrared photometric observations of galaxies in the Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) to predict photometric redshifts using artificial neural networks. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-15 Derek Wilson , Hooshang Nayyeri , Asantha Cooray , Boris Häußler

In this paper we explore the applicability of the unsupervised machine learning technique of Self Organizing Maps (SOM) to estimate galaxy photometric redshift probability density functions (PDFs). This technique takes a spectroscopic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Carrasco Kind , R. J. Brunner

Using the Horizon-AGN hydrodynamical simulation and self-organising maps (SOMs), we show how to compress the complex data structure of a cosmological simulation into a 2-d grid which is much easier to analyse. We first verify the tight…

We present an unsupervised machine learning approach that can be employed for estimating photometric redshifts. The proposed method is based on a vector quantization approach called Self--Organizing Mapping (SOM). A variety of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. J. Way , C. D. Klose

The current and upcoming large data volume galaxy surveys require the use of machine learning techniques to maximize their scientific return. This study explores the use of Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) to estimate galaxy parameters with a…

Accurate photometric redshift calibration is central to the robustness of all cosmology constraints from cosmic shear surveys. Analyses of the KiDS re-weighted training samples from all overlapping spectroscopic surveys to provide a direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Angus H. Wright , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Jan Luca van den Busch , Catherine Heymans

With the launch and application of next-generation ground- and space-based telescopes, astronomy has entered the era of big data, necessitating more efficient and robust data analysis methods. Most traditional parameter estimation methods…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 Zihao Wang , Tao Wang , Ke Xu , Hanwen Sun , Ruining Tian , Qi Hao

We present the survey design, implementation, and outlook for COSMOS-Web, a 255 hour treasury program conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope in its first cycle of observations. COSMOS-Web is a contiguous 0.54 deg$^2$ NIRCam imaging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-09 Caitlin M. Casey , Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe , Nicole E. Drakos , Maximilien Franco , Santosh Harish , Louise Paquereau , Olivier Ilbert , Caitlin Rose , Isabella G. Cox , James W. Nightingale , Brant E. Robertson , John D. Silverman , Anton M. Koekemoer , Richard Massey , Henry Joy McCracken , Jason Rhodes , Hollis B. Akins , Aristeidis Amvrosiadis , Rafael C. Arango-Toro , Micaela B. Bagley , Angela Bongiorno , Peter L. Capak , Jaclyn B. Champagne , Nima Chartab , Oscar A. Chavez Ortiz , Katherine Chworowsky , Kevin C. Cooke , Olivia R. Cooper , Behnam Darvish , Xuheng Ding , Andreas L. Faisst , Steven L. Finkelstein , Seiji Fujimoto , Fabrizio Gentile , Steven Gillman , Katriona M. L. Gould , Ghassem Gozaliasl , Christopher C. Hayward , Qiuhan He , Shoubaneh Hemmati , Michaela Hirschmann , Knud Jahnke , Shuowen Jin , Ali Ahmad Khostovan , Vasily Kokorev , Erini Lambrides , Clotilde Laigle , Rebecca L. Larson , Gene C. K. Leung , Daizhong Liu , Tobias Liaudat , Arianna S. Long , Georgios Magdis , Guillaume Mahler , Vincenzo Mainieri , Sinclaire M. Manning , Claudia Maraston , Crystal L. Martin , Jacqueline E. McCleary , Jed McKinney , Conor J. R. McPartland , Bahram Mobasher , Rohan Pattnaik , Alvio Renzini , R. Michael Rich , David B. Sanders , Zahra Sattari , Diana Scognamiglio , Nick Scoville , Kartik Sheth , Marko Shuntov , Martin Sparre , Tomoko L. Suzuki , Margherita Talia , Sune Toft , Benny Trakhtenbrot , C. Megan Urry , Francesco Valentino , Brittany N. Vanderhoof , Eleni Vardoulaki , John R. Weaver , Katherine E. Whitaker , Stephen M. Wilkins , Lilan Yang , Jorge A. Zavala

We present a method to refine photometric redshift galaxy catalogs by comparing their color-space matching with overlapping spectroscopic calibration data. We focus on cases where photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) are estimated empirically.…

In order to answer the open questions of modern cosmology and galaxy evolution theory, robust algorithms for calculating photometric redshifts (photo-z) for very large samples of galaxies are needed. Correct estimation of the various…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Oleksandra Razim , Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Riccio , Mara Salvato , Giuseppe Longo

The detection and characterization of filamentary structures in the cosmic web allows cosmologists to constrain parameters that dictates the evolution of the Universe. While many filament estimators have been proposed, they generally lack…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Yen-Chi Chen , Shirley Ho , Peter E. Freeman , Christopher R. Genovese , Larry Wasserman

Modern surveys present us with billions of faint galaxies for which we only have broadband images in $\sim$6-8 optical-to-near-infrared (NIR) filters. Galaxy star formation rates (SFRs) are difficult to estimate accurately without…

The growing volume of data produced by large astronomical surveys necessitates the development of efficient analysis techniques capable of effectively managing high-dimensional datasets. This study addresses this need by demonstrating some…

We examine a general framework for visualizing datasets of high (> 2) dimensionality, and demonstrate it using the morphology of galaxies at moderate redshifts. The distributions of various populations of such galaxies are examined in a…

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