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We describe application of the `shapelet' linear decomposition of galaxy images to morphological classification using images of $\sim$ 3000 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. After decomposing the galaxies we perform a principal…

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We present a deep machine learning (ML) approach to constraining cosmological parameters with multi-wavelength observations of galaxy clusters. The ML approach has two components: an encoder that builds a compressed representation of each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Michelle Ntampaka , Alexey Vikhlinin

The taxonomy of galaxy morphology is critical in astrophysics as the morphological properties are powerful tracers of galaxy evolution. With the upcoming Large-scale Imaging Surveys, billions of galaxy images challenge astronomers to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Zhirui Zhang , Zhiqiang Zou , Nan Li , Yanli Chen

There are several supervised machine learning methods used for the application of automated morphological classification of galaxies; however, there has not yet been a clear comparison of these different methods using imaging data, or a…

The exponential growth of astronomical datasets provides an unprecedented opportunity for humans to gain insight into the Universe. However, effectively analyzing this vast amount of data poses a significant challenge. Astronomers are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-20 Mingxiang Fu , Yu Song , Jiameng Lv , Liang Cao , Peng Jia , Nan Li , Xiangru Li , Jifeng Liu , A-Li Luo , Bo Qiu , Shiyin Shen , Liangping Tu , Lili Wang , Shoulin Wei , Haifeng Yang , Zhenping Yi , Zhiqiang Zou

We use automated surface photometry and pattern classification techniques to morphologically classify galaxies. The two-dimensional light distribution of a galaxy is reconstructed using Fourier series fits to azimuthal profiles computed in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. C. Odewahn , S. H. Cohen , R. A. Windhorst , N. S. Philip

Classification and segmentation are crucial in medical image analysis as they enable accurate diagnosis and disease monitoring. However, current methods often prioritize the mutual learning features and shared model parameters, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Kai Ren , Ke Zou , Xianjie Liu , Yidi Chen , Xuedong Yuan , Xiaojing Shen , Meng Wang , Huazhu Fu

We introduce a new method to determine galaxy cluster membership based solely on photometric properties. We adopt a machine learning approach to recover a cluster membership probability from galaxy photometric parameters and finally derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 P. A. A. Lopes , A. L. B. Ribeiro

Recent advancements in areas such as natural language processing and computer vision rely on intricate and massive models that have been trained using vast amounts of unlabelled or partly labeled data and training or deploying these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Rishit Dagli

We present a machine learning (ML) pipeline to identify star clusters in the multi{color images of nearby galaxies, from observations obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Treasury Project LEGUS (Legacy ExtraGalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 Gustavo Perez , Matteo Messa , Daniela Calzetti , Subhransu Maji , Dooseok Jung , Angela Adamo , Mattia Siressi

The evolutionary classification of molecular clumps, crucial for understanding star formation, is commonly based on human-assigned categories derived from infrared (IR) emission and well-established morphological criteria. However, due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-27 K. V. Plakitina , M. S. Kirsanova , A. B. Ostrovskii , A. D. Gimalieva , S. V. Salii , A. V. Meshcheryakov

This paper follows series of our works on the applicability of various machine learning methods to the morphological galaxy classification (Vavilova et al., 2021, 2022). We exploited the sample of 315776 SDSS DR9 galaxies with absolute…

Measuring the morphological parameters of galaxies is a key requirement for studying their formation and evolution. Surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have resulted in the availability of very large collections of images,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-25 Sander Dieleman , Kyle W. Willett , Joni Dambre

We applied the image-based approach with a convolutional neural network model to the sample of low-redshifts galaxies with $-24^{m}<M_{r}<-19.4^{m}$ from the SDSS DR9. We divided it into two subsamples, SDSS DR9 galaxy dataset and Galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-04 I. B. Vavilova , V. Khramtsov , D. V. Dobrycheva , M. Yu. Vasylenko , A. A. Elyiv , O. V. Melnyk

Multi-band images of galaxies reveal a huge amount of information about their morphology and structure. However, inferring properties of the underlying stellar populations such as age, metallicity or kinematics from those images is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-03 Tobias Buck , Steffen Wolf

Galaxy morphology encodes key information about formation and evolution. Large imaging surveys require automated, reproducible methods beyond visual inspection. Non--parametric indices provide an useful framework, but their performance must…

We present the morphological catalog of galaxies in nearby clusters of the WINGS survey (Fasano et al. 2006). The catalog contains a total number of 39923 galaxies, for which we provide the automatic estimates of the morphological type…

Autonomous digital sky surveys such as Pan-STARRS have the ability to image a very large number of galactic and extra-galactic objects, and the large and complex nature of the image data reinforces the use of automation. Here we describe…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Hunter Goddard , Lior Shamir

The results of morphological galaxy classifications performed by humans and by automated methods are compared. In particular, a comparison is made between the eyeball classifications of 454 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicholas M. Ball

The task of morphological classification is complex for simple parameterization, but important for research in the galaxy evolution field. Future galaxy surveys (e.g. EUCLID) will collect data about more than a $10^9$ galaxies. To obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Andrey Soroka , Alex Meshcheryakov , Sergey Gerasimov