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Sky surveys are the largest data generators in astronomy, making automated tools for extracting meaningful scientific information an absolute necessity. We show that, without the need for labels, self-supervised learning recovers…

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With the increasing number of deep multi-wavelength galaxy surveys, the spectral energy distribution (SED) of galaxies has become an invaluable tool for studying the formation of their structures and their evolution. In this context,…

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The spectral energy distribution (SED) of observed stars in wide-field images is crucial for chromatic point spread function (PSF) modelling methods, which use unresolved stars as integrated spectral samples of the PSF across the field of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Ezequiel Centofanti , Samuel Farrens , Jean-Luc Starck , Tobias Liaudat , Alex Szapiro , Jennifer Pollack

During the last decade, there has been an explosive growth in survey data and deep learning techniques, both of which have enabled great advances for astronomy. The amount of data from various surveys from multiple epochs with a wide range…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-08 Brandon Buncher , Awshesh Nath Sharma , Matias Carrasco Kind

The new generation of deep photometric surveys requires unprecedentedly precise shape and photometry measurements of billions of galaxies to achieve their main science goals. At such depths, one major limiting factor is the blending of…

Spectroscopy represents the ideal observational method to maximally extract information from galaxies regarding their star formation and chemical enrichment histories. However, absorption spectra of galaxies prove rather challenging at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Oliver Camilleri , Zahra Sharbaf , Ignacio Ferreras

Upcoming surveys will produce billions of galaxy images but comparatively few spectra, motivating models that learn cross-modal representations. We build a dataset of 134,533 galaxy images (HSC-PDR2) and spectra (DESI-DR1) and adapt a…

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In this work, we test whether gradient-boosting algorithms, trained on broadband photometric data from traditional Lyman-$\alpha$ emitting (LAE) surveys, can efficiently and accurately identify LAE candidates from typical star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-30 A. Vale , A. Paulino-Afonso , A. Humphrey , P. A. C. Cunha , B. Ribeiro , B. Cerqueira , R. Carvajal , J. Fonseca

Machine learning has been widely applied to clearly defined problems of astronomy and astrophysics. However, deep learning and its conceptual differences to classical machine learning have been largely overlooked in these fields. The broad…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Nima Sedaghat , Martino Romaniello , Jonathan E. Carrick , François-Xavier Pineau

Stellar astrophysics relies on diverse observational modalities-primarily photometric light curves and spectroscopic data from which fundamental stellar properties are inferred. While machine learning (ML) has advanced analysis within…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 Ilay Kamai , Alex M. Bronstein , Hagai B. Perets

Large-scale photometric surveys are revolutionizing astronomy by delivering unprecedented amounts of data. The rich data sets from missions such as the NASA Kepler and TESS satellites, and the upcoming ESA PLATO mission, are a treasure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jeroen Audenaert

Photometric redshift estimation plays a crucial role in modern cosmological surveys for studying the universe's large-scale structures and the evolution of galaxies. Deep learning has emerged as a powerful method to produce accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 R. Ait-Ouahmed , S. Arnouts , J. Pasquet , M. Treyer , E. Bertin

Obtaining accurate photometric redshift estimations is an important aspect of cosmology, remaining a prerequisite of many analyses. In creating novel methods to produce redshift estimations, there has been a shift towards using machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Ben Henghes , Connor Pettitt , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Tony Hey , Ofer Lahav

A fundamental challenge for wide-field imaging surveys is obtaining follow-up spectroscopic observations: there are > $10^9$ photometrically cataloged sources, yet modern spectroscopic surveys are limited to ~few x $10^6$ targets. As we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. A. Miller , J. S. Bloom , J. W. Richards , Y. S. Lee , D. L. Starr , N. R. Butler , S. Tokarz , N. Smith , J. A. Eisner

Information on the spectral types of stars is of great interest in view of the exploitation of space-based imaging surveys. In this article, we investigate the classification of stars into spectral types using only the shape of their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 T. Kuntzer , M. Tewes , F. Courbin

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) aims to map the universe across an unprecedented dynamic range of stellar densities, spanning from extragalactic voids to the crowded Galactic center (e.g. a few stars and galaxies in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jinzhi Lai , Man I Lam , Jianjun Chen , Xin Zhang , Hao Tian , Xiaohan Chen , Jialu Nie , Ming Yang , Chao Liu

Current large-scale astrophysical experiments produce unprecedented amounts of rich and diverse data. This creates a growing need for fast and flexible automated data inspection methods. Deep learning algorithms can capture and pick up…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-03 Vanessa Böhm , Alex G. Kim , Stéphanie Juneau

In latest years, deep learning has gained a leading role in the pansharpening of multiresolution images. Given the lack of ground truth data, most deep learning-based methods carry out supervised training in a reduced-resolution domain.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-28 Matteo Ciotola , Giovanni Poggi , Giuseppe Scarpa

The tens of millions of spectra being captured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) provide tremendous discovery potential. In this work we show how Machine Learning, in particular Variational Autoencoders (VAE), can detect…

We have undertaken a dedicated program of automatic source classification in the WISE database merged with SuperCOSMOS scans, comprehensively identifying galaxies, quasars and stars on most of the unconfused sky. We use the Support Vector…