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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 the construction of an image similarity retrieval engine for the morphological classification of galaxies using the Convolutional AutoEncoder (CAE). The CAE is trained on 90,370 preprocessed Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxy images…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-04 Eunsuk Seo , Suk Kim , Youngdae Lee , Sang-Il Han , Hak-Sub Kim , Soo-Chang Rey , Hyunmi Song

We present Galaxy Zoo DECaLS: detailed visual morphological classifications for Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey images of galaxies within the SDSS DR8 footprint. Deeper DECaLS images (r=23.6 vs. r=22.2 from SDSS) reveal spiral arms, weak…

Galaxy morphology analysis involves studying galaxies based on their shapes and structures. For such studies, fundamental tasks include identifying and classifying galaxies in astronomical images, as well as retrieving visually or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Ruoqi Wang , Haitao Wang , Qiong Luo

This chapter reviews the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to the study of galaxy clusters, covering both theoretical developments and their use as tools to infer cluster properties from a variety of observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Gustavo Yepes , Daniel de Andrés

Galaxies can be described by features of their optical spectra such as oxygen emission lines, or morphological features such as spiral arms. Although spectroscopy provides a rich description of the physical processes that govern galaxy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-01 John F. Wu , J. E. G. Peek

We present GLASS, the Generator for Large Scale Structure, a new code for the simulation of galaxy surveys for cosmology, which iteratively builds a light cone with matter, galaxies, and weak gravitational lensing signals as a sequence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-28 Nicolas Tessore , Arthur Loureiro , Benjamin Joachimi , Maximilian von Wietersheim-Kramsta , Niall Jeffrey

We describe a new method for measuring galaxy magnification due to weak gravitational lensing. Our method makes use of a tight scaling relation between galaxy properties that are modified by gravitational lensing, such as apparent size, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-07 Eric M. Huff , Genevieve J. Graves

We present a new neural network approach for deblending galaxy images in astronomical data using Residual Dense Neural network (RDN) architecture. We train the network on synthetic galaxy images similar to the typical arrangements of field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-12 Hong Wang , Sreevarsha Sreejith , Anže Slosar , Yuewei Lin , Shinjae Yoo

Galaxy spectra are a rich source of kinematical information since the shapes of the absorption lines reflect the movement of stars along the line-of-sight. We present a technique to directly build a dynamical model for a galaxy by fitting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. De Rijcke , H. Dejonghe

Cosmological galaxy formation simulations are powerful tools to understand the complex processes that govern the formation and evolution of galaxies. However, evaluating the realism of these simulations remains a challenge. The two common…

The principles of measuring the shapes of galaxies by a model-fitting approach are discussed in the context of shape-measurement for surveys of weak gravitational lensing. It is argued that such an approach should be optimal, allowing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Miller , T. D. Kitching , C. Heymans , A. F. Heavens , L. Van Waerbeke

Finding scientifically interesting phenomena through slow, manual labeling campaigns severely limits our ability to explore the billions of galaxy images produced by telescopes. In this work, we develop a pipeline to create a semantic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Nolan Koblischke , Liam Parker , Francois Lanusse , Irina Espejo Morales , Jo Bovy , Shirley Ho

Image-to-image translation with Deep Learning neural networks, particularly with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), is one of the most powerful methods for simulating astronomical images. However, current work is limited to utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Qiufan Lin , Dominique Fouchez , Jérôme Pasquet

In this paper, a deep convolutional neural network architecture for galaxies classification is presented. The galaxy can be classified based on its features into main three categories Elliptical, Spiral, and Irregular. The proposed deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Nour Eldeen M. Khalifa , Mohamed Hamed N. Taha , Aboul Ella Hassanien , I. M. Selim

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 incredible variety of galaxy shapes cannot be summarized by human defined discrete classes of shapes without causing a possibly large loss of information. Dictionary learning and sparse coding allow us to reduce the high dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-01 Giuseppe Vinci , Peter Freeman , Jeffrey Newman , Larry Wasserman , Christopher Genovese

Estimating stellar masses for billions of galaxies in upcoming surveys requires methods that are both accurate and computationally efficient. We present a new approach using symbolic regression trained on a simulation to derive simple,…

As the first paper in a series on the study of the galaxy-galaxy lensing from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7), we present our image processing pipeline that corrects the systematics primarily introduced by the Point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Wentao Luo , Xiaohu Yang , Jun Zhang , Dylan Tweed , Liping Fu , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch , Chenggang Shu , Ran Li , Nan Li , Xiangkun Liu , Chuzhong Pan , Yiran Wang , Mario Radovich

We examine the capability of generative models to produce realistic galaxy images. We show that mixing generated data with the original data improves the robustness in downstream machine learning tasks. We focus on three different data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 Benjamin J. Holzschuh , Conor M. O'Riordan , Simona Vegetti , Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez , Nils Thuerey