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The ring structures of disk galaxies are vital for understanding galaxy evolution and dynamics. However, due to the scarcity of ringed galaxies and challenges in their identification, traditional methods often struggle to efficiently obtain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-11 Jianzhen Chen , Zhijian Luo , Cheng Cheng , Jun Hou , Shaohua Zhang , Chenggang Shu

Understanding the formation and evolution of ring galaxies, which possess an atypical ring-like structure, is crucial for advancing knowledge of black holes and galaxy dynamics. However, current catalogs of ring galaxies are limited, as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-08 Harish Krishnakumar , J. Bryce Kalmbach

The DESI Legacy Survey is a digital sky survey with a large footprint compared to other Earth-based surveys, covering both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. This paper shows the distribution of the spin directions of spiral galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Lior Shamir

Galaxy physical properties-such as star formation rate (SFR), stellar mass, and gas-phase metallicity-are essential for population studies and evolutionary analyses. Deriving these quantities for billions of galaxies in modern imaging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-20 Shirui Wei , Changhua Li , Yanxia Zhang , Chenzhou Cui , Jinghang Shi , Wujun Shao , Zihan Kang , Yongheng Zhao , Maoyuan Huang

As ground-based all-sky astronomical surveys will gather millions of images in the coming years, a critical requirement emerges for the development of fast deconvolution algorithms capable of efficiently improving the spatial resolution of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Utsav Akhaury , Pascale Jablonka , Jean-Luc Starck , Frédéric Courbin

Morphological features in galaxies, like spiral arms, bars, rings, tidal tails etc. carry information about their structure, origin and evolution. It is therefore important to catalog and study such features and to correlate them with other…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-06 Linn Abraham , Sheelu Abraham , Ajit K. Kembhavi , N. S. Philip , A. K. Aniyan , Sudhanshu Barway , Harish Kumar

In a recent study, we developed a method to model the impact of photometric redshift uncertainty on the two-point correlation function (2PCF). In this method, we can obtain both the intrinsic clustering strength and the photometric redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-29 Zhaoyu Wang , Haojie Xu , Xiaohu Yang , Yipeng Jing , Kai Wang , Hong Guo , Fuyu Dong , Min He

We present a catalogue of photometric redshifts for galaxies from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys, which includes $\sim0.18$ billion sources covering 14,000 ${\rm deg}^2$. The photometric redshifts, along with their uncertainties, are estimated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-25 Xingchen Zhou , Nan Li , Hu Zou , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Xuelei Chen , Qian Yu , Zizhao He , Boyi Ding

Radial colour gradients within galaxies arise from gradients of stellar age, metallicity and dust reddening. Large samples of colour gradients from wide-area imaging surveys can complement smaller integral-field spectroscopy datasets and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Li-Wen Liao , Andrew Cooper

The accurate estimation of photometric redshifts plays a crucial role in accomplishing science objectives of the large survey projects. The template-fitting and machine learning are the two main types of methods applied currently. Based on…

Based on the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys released data and available spectroscopic redshifts, we identify 1.58 million clusters of galaxies by searching for the overdensity of stellar mass distribution of galaxies within redshift slices…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-03 Z. L. Wen , J. L. Han

Rings are important and characteristic features of disc-shaped galaxies. This paper is the first in a series which re-visits galactic rings with the goals of further understanding the nature of the features and for examining their role in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 R. J. Buta

The morphological diversity of galaxies is a relevant probe of galaxy evolution and cosmological structure formation, but the classification of galaxies in large sky surveys is becoming a significant challenge. We use data from the…

Galaxy cluster-scale strong gravitational lensing systems are rare yet valuable tools for investigating the properties of dark matter and dark energy, as well as providing the opportunity to study the distant universe at flux levels and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Zhejian Zhang , Nan Li , Shude Mao , Hu Zou , Zizhao He , Mingxiang Fu , Shenzhe Cui

The catalog of ringed galaxies was compiled through visual classification of synthetic images from the TNG50 simulation. Galaxies were selected based on specific criteria: a redshift range of $0.01 < z < 0.1$, stellar mass $M_\star >10^9…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-28 Julia Fernandez , Emanuel Sillero , Sol Alonso , Patricia Tissera

[Abridged] To effectively investigate galaxy formation and evolution, it is of paramount importance to exploit homogeneous data for large samples of galaxies in different environments. The WINGS (WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey)…

We present a novel graph-based machine learning classifier for identifying the dark matter cosmic web environments of galaxies. Large galaxy surveys offer comprehensive statistical views of how galaxy properties are shaped by large-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-02 Dakshesh Kololgi , Krishna Naidoo , Amelie Saintonge , Ofer Lahav

We present a machine learning search for local, low-mass galaxies ($z < 0.02$ and $10^6 M_\odot < M_* < 10^9 M_\odot$) using the combined photometric data from the DESI Imaging Legacy Surveys and the WISE survey. We introduce the spectrally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-19 Huanian Zhang , Guangping Ye , Rongyu Wu , Dennis Zaritsky

(Abridged) Context. This is the second paper of a series devoted to the WIde Field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey (WINGS). WINGS is a long term project which is gathering wide-field, multi-band imaging and spectroscopy of galaxies in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Varela , M. D'Onofrio , C. Marmo , G. Fasano , D. Bettoni , A. Cava , W. J. Couch , A. Dressler , P. Kjaergaard , M. Moles , E. Pignatelli , B. M. Poggianti , T. Valentinuzzi

A full ring is a form of galaxy morphology that is not associated with a specific stage on the Hubble sequence. Digital sky surveys can collect many millions of galaxy images, and therefore even rare forms of galaxies are expected to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-27 Lior Shamir
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