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We introduce a new Bayesian HI spectral line fitting technique capable of obtaining spectroscopic redshifts for millions of galaxies in radio surveys with the Square Kilometere Array (SKA). This technique is especially well-suited to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-28 Ian Harrison , Michelle Lochner , Michael L. Brown

In order to study the status and the possible evolution of clusters of galaxies at intermediate redshifts (z ~ 0.1 - 0.3), as well as their spatial correlation and relationship with the local environment, we built a sample of candidate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Zanichelli , M. Vigotti , R. Scaramella , G. Grueff , G. Vettolani

In this work we examine the classification accuracy and robustness of a state-of-the-art semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithm applied to the morphological classification of radio galaxies. We test if SSL with fewer labels can achieve…

This work proposes a saliency-based attribution framework to evaluate and compare 10 state-of-the-art explainability methods for deep learning models in astronomy, focusing on the classification of radio galaxy images. While previous work…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 M. T. Atemkeng , C. Chuma , S. Zaza , C. D. Nunhokee , O. M. Smirnov

Radio galaxies exhibit a rich diversity of characteristics and emit radio emissions through a variety of radiation mechanisms, making their classification into distinct types based on morphology a complex challenge. To address this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-01 Steven Ndungu , Trienko Grobler , Stefan J. Wijnholds Dimka Karastoyanova , George Azzopardi

End-to-end deep learning models fed with multi-band galaxy images are powerful data-driven tools used to estimate galaxy physical properties in the absence of spectroscopy. However, due to a lack of interpretability and the associational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Wei Zhang , Qiufan Lin , Yuan-Sen Ting , Shupei Chen , Hengxin Ruan , Song Li , Yifan Wang

Multi-wavelength astronomical studies brings a wealth of science within reach. One way to achieve a cross-wavelength analysis is via `stacking', i.e. combining precise positional information from an image at one wavelength with data from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-14 Song Chen , Jonathan T. L. Zwart , Mario G. Santos

Building on our previous work, we apply a U-Net Variational Autoencoder (VAE) framework to denoise galaxy images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and enhance morphological classification. This study focuses on galaxies observed up…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Sergey Mirzoyan

This paper explores signal and image analysis by using the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and its extension, the Generalized Singular Value Decomposition (GSVD). A key strength of SVD lies in its ability to separate information into…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Oscar Romero , Néstor Thome

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 apply classical machine vision and machine deep learning methods to prototype signal classifiers for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Our novel approach uses two-dimensional spectrograms of measured and simulated radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-08 G. R. Harp , Jon Richards , Seth Shostak Jill C. Tarter , Graham Mackintosh , Jeffrey D. Scargle , Chris Henze , Bron Nelson , G. A. Cox , S. Egly , S. Vinodababu , J. Voien

Classifying the morphologies of radio galaxies is important to understand their physical properties and evolutionary histories. A galaxy's morphology is often determined by visual inspection, but as survey size increases robust automated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 Emma Tolley

In this paper, Sphere Decoding (SD) algorithms for Spatial Modulation (SM) are developed to reduce the computational complexity of Maximum-Likelihood (ML) detectors. Two SDs specifically designed for SM are proposed and analysed in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-31 Abdelhamid Younis , Sinan Sinanović , Marco Di Renzo , Raed Mesleh , Harald Haas

We present here RadioSED, a Bayesian inference framework tailored to modelling and classifying broadband radio spectral energy distributions (SEDs) using only data from publicly-released, large-area surveys. We outline the functionality of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-10 Emily F. Kerrison , James R. Allison , Vanessa A. Moss , Elaine M. Sadler , Glen A. Rees

We develop an Iterative version of the Singular Value Decomposition (ISVD) that jointly analyzes a finite number of data matrices to identify signals that correlate among the rows of matrices. It will be illustrated how the supervised…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Mohsen Rakhshan

Most existing star-galaxy classifiers use the reduced summary information from catalogs, requiring careful feature extraction and selection. The latest advances in machine learning that use deep convolutional neural networks allow a machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 Edward J. Kim , Robert J. Brunner

Measuring radio source counts is critical for characterizing new extragalactic populations, brings a wealth of science within reach and will inform forecasts for SKA and its pathfinders. Yet there is currently great debate (and few…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Jonathan T. L. Zwart , Mario Santos , Matt J. Jarvis

High throughput biomedical measurements normally capture multiple overlaid biologically relevant signals and often also signals representing different types of technical artefacts like e.g. batch effects. Signal identification and…

Applications · Statistics 2017-10-24 Rasmus Henningsson , Magnus Fontes