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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), currently scheduled to launch in 2021, will dramatically advance our understanding of exoplanetary systems with its ability to directly image and characterise planetary-mass companions at wide…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has the potential to enhance our understanding of near-Earth objects (NEOs). We present results of investigations into the observability of NEOs given the nominal observing requirements of JWST on…

In this paper we present a two-step neural network model to separate detections of solar system objects from optical and electronic artifacts in data obtained with the "Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System" (ATLAS), a near-Earth…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Amandin Chyba Rabeendran , Larry Denneau

The high sensitivity of JWST will open a new window on the end of the cosmological dark ages. Small stellar clusters, with a stellar mass of several 10^6 M_sun, and low-mass black holes (BHs), with a mass of several 10^5 M_sun should be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Zoltan Haiman

We propose a new method for solving an important problem of astronomy that arises in observations with ultrahigh-angular-resolution interferometers. This method is based on the application of the theory of artificial neural networks. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Alexander Shatskiy , Ivan Evgeniev

I review the prospects for studies of the advanced evolutionary stages of low-, intermediate- and high-mass stars by the JWST and concurrent facilities, with particular emphasis on how they may help elucidate the dominant contributors to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Michael J. Barlow

The application of machine learning principles in the photometric search of elusive astronomical objects has been a less-explored frontier of research. Here we have used three methods: the Neural Network and two variants of k-Nearest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 D. Bhavana , S. Vig , S. K. Ghosh , Rama Krishna Sai S. Gorthi

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time, to be conducted with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, is poised to revolutionize our understanding of the Solar System by providing an unprecedented wealth of data on various objects, including the elusive…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Richard Cloete , Peter Vereš , Abraham Loeb

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is unveiling astounding results about the first few hundred million years of life of the Universe, delivering images of galaxies at very high redshifts. Here, we develop a UV luminosity function model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 Fabio Iocco , Luca Visinelli

We present GASPHOT, a tool for automated surface photometry and morphological classification of galaxies in deep and wide fields. The requirements for any such tool are reviewed, and its use for the classification of high-z galaxies is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Pignatelli , G. Fasano

We introduce the public version of the BAyesian STellar Algorithm (BASTA), an open-source code written in {\tt Python} to determine stellar properties based on a set of astrophysical observables. BASTA has been specifically designed to…

Fast moving celestial objects are characterized by velocities across the celestial sphere that significantly differ from the motions of background stars. In observational images, these objects exhibit distinct shapes, contrasting with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Peng Jia , Ge Li , Bafeng Cheng , Yushan Li , Rongyu Sun

Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope allow a first glimpse of galaxies at $z \gtrsim 11$. The most successful tool for identifying ultra-high-redshift candidates and inferring their properties is photometric template fitting.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-19 Charles L. Steinhardt , Vasily Kokorev , Vadim Rusakov , Ethan Garcia , Albert Sneppen

There now exists many popular object detectors based on deep learning that can analyze images and extract locations and class labels for occurrences of objects. For image time series (i.e., video or sequences of stills), tracking objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Ketil Malde

With the advent of JWST, we can probe the rest-frame optical emission of galaxies at $z>3$ with high sensitivity and spatial resolution, making it possible to accurately characterise red, optically-faint galaxies and thus move towards a…

The James Webb Space Telescop (JWST) promises to revolutionise our understanding of the early Universe, and contrasting its upcoming observations with predictions of the $\Lambda$CDM model requires detailed theoretical forecasts. Here, we…

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) enables the recognition of novel classes by leveraging semantic knowledge transfer from known to unknown categories. This knowledge, typically encapsulated in attribute descriptions, aids in identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Haojian Huang , Xiaozhen Qiao , Zhuo Chen , Haodong Chen , Bingyu Li , Zhe Sun , Mulin Chen , Xuelong Li

Visual Place Recognition aims at recognizing previously visited places by relying on visual clues, and it is used in robotics applications for SLAM and localization. Since typically a mobile robot has access to a continuous stream of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Gabriele Berton , Gabriele Trivigno , Barbara Caputo , Carlo Masone

In this second paper in a series of papers based on the most-up-to-date catalogue of symbiotic stars (SySts), we present a new approach for identifying and distinguishing SySts from other Halpha emitters in photometric surveys using machine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Stavros Akras , Marcelo L. Leal-Ferreira , Lizette Guzman-Ramirez , Gerardo Ramos-Larios

Understanding disk evolution and dissipation is essential for studies of planet formation. Transition disks, i.e., disks with large dust cavities and gaps, are promising candidates of active evolution. About two dozen SED-selected…