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Current and future gravitational-wave observatories rely on large-scale, precision interferometers to detect the gravitational-wave signals. However, microscopic imperfections on the test masses, known as point absorbers, cause problematic…

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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…

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We investigate the visibility of galactic bars and spiral structure in the distant Universe by artificially redshifting 101 B-band CCD images of local spiral galaxies from the Ohio State University Bright Spiral Galaxy Survey. Our…

Addressing the spatial uncertainty and spectral blending challenges in CSST slitless spectroscopy, we present a deep learning-driven, end-to-end framework based on the You Only Look Once (YOLO) models. This approach directly detects,…

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We have done a detailed study on the structural and kinematical properties of lenticular and early- and late-type spiral galaxies with bars, aiming to explore the formation and evolution processes of stellar bars in galaxies, and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dimitri Alexei Gadotti

We interpret simulations of secularly-evolving disc galaxies through orbit morphology. Using a new algorithm that measures the volume of orbits in real space using a tessellation, we rapidly isolate commensurate (resonant) orbits. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-30 Michael S. Petersen , Martin D. Weinberg , Neal Katz

The optimisation of crop harvesting processes for commonly cultivated crops is of great importance in the aim of agricultural industrialisation. Nowadays, the utilisation of machine vision has enabled the automated identification of crops,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Hongyu Zhao , Zezhi Tang , Zhenhong Li , Yi Dong , Yuancheng Si , Mingyang Lu , George Panoutsos

Observational data indicate that the Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy. Computation facilities and availability of data from Galactic surveys stimulate the appearance of models of the Galactic structure. More efforts to build dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-18 Tatiana A. Michtchenko , Jacques R. D. Lépine , Douglas A. Barros , Ronaldo S. S. Vieira

We have modelled 38 barred galaxies by using near-IR and optical data from the Ohio State University Bright Spiral Galaxy Survey. We constructed the gravitational potentials of the galaxies from $H$-band photometry, assuming constant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Rautiainen , H. Salo , E. Laurikainen

We present You Only Stack Once (YOSO), an automated pipeline designed to detect faint, slow-moving Solar System objects in wide-field astronomical surveys. The pipeline integrates a novel Gaussian Motion Filter (GMoF) that operates at the…

Bar fractions depend on the properties of the host galaxies, which are closely related to the formation and evolution of bars. However, observational studies do not provide consistent results. We investigate the bar fraction and its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 Yun Hee Lee , Hong Bae Ann , Myeong-Gu Park

A bar-like central feature is commonly observed in both nearby and distant spiral-type galaxies, including the Milky Way. While many methods exist to categorise this morphology, no one method has emerged as the field-wide standard. To…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Elizabeth J. Iles , Finn A. Pal , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Ken Freeman

Over the past decade, object detection has advanced significantly, with the YOLO (You Only Look Once) family of models transforming the landscape of real-time vision applications through unified, end-to-end detection frameworks. From…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Manikanta Kotthapalli , Deepika Ravipati , Reshma Bhatia

We present 3D-Barolo, a new code that derives rotation curves of galaxies from emission-line observations. This software fits 3D tilted-ring models to spectroscopic data-cubes and can be used with a variety of observations: from HI and…

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Classification of young stellar objects (YSOs) into different evolutionary stages helps us to understand the formation process of new stars and planetary systems. Such classification has traditionally been based on spectral energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 Oskari Miettinen

The You Only Look Once (YOLO) series of detectors have established themselves as efficient and practical tools. However, their reliance on predefined and trained object categories limits their applicability in open scenarios. Addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Tianheng Cheng , Lin Song , Yixiao Ge , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang , Ying Shan

We investigate the relations between the properties of bars and their host galaxies in a sample of 77 nearby barred galaxies, spanning a wide range of morphological types and luminosities, with 34 SB0-SBa and 43 SBab-SBc galaxies. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-23 Virginia Cuomo , J. Alfonso L. Aguerri , Enrico Maria Corsini , Victor P. Debattista

I review both well established and more recent findings on the properties of bars, and their host galaxies, stemming from photometric and spectroscopic observations, and discuss how these findings can be understood in terms of a global…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitri A. Gadotti

The bar pattern speed ($\Omega_{\rm b}$) is defined as the rotational frequency of the bar, and it determines the bar dynamics. Several methods have been proposed for measuring $\Omega_{\rm b}$. The non-parametric method proposed by…

We present a comprehensive study of bar structures in the local Universe using data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. Through isophotal analysis of 232,142 galaxies, we identify bars and classify them into strong and weak categories…

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