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Upcoming surveys with new radio observatories such as the Square Kilometer Array will generate a wealth of imaging data containing large numbers of radio galaxies. Different classes of radio galaxies can be used as tracers of the cosmic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-30 Wathela Alhassan , A. R. Taylor , Mattia Vaccari

In recent decades, large-scale sky surveys such as Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have resulted in generation of tremendous amount of data. The classification of this enormous amount of data by astronomers is time consuming. To simplify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 Sarvesh Gharat , Yogesh Dandawate

The classification of radio galaxies is central to understanding galaxy evolution, active galactic nuclei dynamics, and the large-scale structure of the universe. However, traditional manual techniques are inadequate for processing the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Theophilus Ansah-Narh , Jordan Lontsi Tedongmo , Joseph Bremang Tandoh , Nia Imara , Ezekiel Nii Noye Nortey

Next-generation radio surveys will yield an unprecedented amount of data, warranting analysis by use of machine learning techniques. Convolutional neural networks are the deep learning technique that has proven to be the most successful in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 V. Lukic , M. Brüggen , B. Mingo , J. H. Croston , G. Kasieczka , P. N. Best

The upcoming Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will set a new standard regarding data volume generated by an astronomical instrument, which is likely to challenge widely adopted data-analysis tools that scale inadequately with the data size. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-09 D. Cornu , P. Salomé , B. Semelin , A. Marchal , J. Freundlich , S. Aicardi , X. Lu , G. Sainton , F. Mertens , F. Combes , C. Tasse

With the advent of large scale surveys the manual analysis and classification of individual radio source morphologies is rendered impossible as existing approaches do not scale. The analysis of complex morphological features in the spatial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 T. J. Galvin , M. Huynh , R. P. Norris , X. R. Wang , E. Hopkins , O. I. Wong , S. Shabala , L. Rudnick , M. J. Alger , K. L. Polsterer

We propose to learn latent space representations of radio galaxies, and train a very deep variational autoencoder (\protect\Verb+VDVAE+) on RGZ DR1, an unlabeled dataset, to this end. We show that the encoded features can be leveraged for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-15 Sambatra Andrianomena , Hongming Tang

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…

We present a morphological classification of 14,245 radio active galactic nuclei (AGNs) into six types, i.e., typical Fanaroff--Riley Class I / II (FRI/II), FRI/II-like bent-tailed, X-shaped radio galaxy, and ringlike radio galaxy, by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 Zhixian Ma , Haiguang Xu , Jie Zhu , Dan Hu , Weitian Li , Chenxi Shan , Zhenghao Zhu , Liyi Gu , Jinjin Li , Chengze Liu , Xiangping Wu

Machine learning techniques have been increasingly used in astronomical applications and have proven to successfully classify objects in image data with high accuracy. The current work uses archival data from the Faint Images of the Radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-02 Viera Maslej-Krešňáková , Khadija El Bouchefry , Peter Butka

The upcoming Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope marks a significant step forward in radio astronomy, presenting new opportunities and challenges for data analysis. Traditional visual models pretrained on optical photography images may…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-25 Thomas Cecconello , Simone Riggi , Ugo Becciani , Fabio Vitello , Andrew M. Hopkins , Giuseppe Vizzari , Concetto Spampinato , Simone Palazzo

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…

Large surveys using modern telescopes are producing images that are increasing exponentially in size and quality. Identifying objects in the generated images by visual recognition is time-consuming and labor-intensive, while classifying the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-28 Baoqiang Lao , Tao An , Ailing Wang , Zhijun Xu , Shaoguang Guo , Weijia Lv , Xiaocong Wu , Yingkang Zhang

The morphological classification of radio sources is important to gain a full understanding of galaxy evolution processes and their relation with local environmental properties. Furthermore, the complex nature of the problem, its appeal for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-09 Burger Becker , Mattia Vaccari , Matthew Prescott , Trienko Lups Grobler

In this work we present updated forecasts on parameterised modifications of gravity that can capture deviations of the behaviour of cosmological density perturbations beyond $\Lambda$CDM. For these forecasts we adopt the SKA Observatory…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-13 Santiago Casas , Isabella P. Carucci , Valeria Pettorino , Stefano Camera , Matteo Martinelli

All-sky radio surveys are set to revolutionise the field with new discoveries. However, the vast majority of the tens of millions of radio galaxies won't have the spectroscopic redshift measurements required for a large number of science…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 Kieran J. Luken , Ray P. Norris , Laurence A. F. Park , X. Rosalind Wang , Miroslav D. Filipovic

Context. Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and star forming galaxies (SFGs) are the primary sources of extragalactic radio sky. But it is difficult to distinguish the radio emission produced by AGNs from that by SFGs, especially when the radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-17 Xu-Liang Fan , Jie Li

The classification of galaxy morphology plays a crucial role in understanding galaxy formation and evolution. Traditionally, this process is done manually. The emergence of deep learning techniques has given room for the automation of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Ezra Fielding , Clement N. Nyirenda , Mattia Vaccari

Generation of science-ready data from processed data products is one of the major challenges in next-generation radio continuum surveys with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its precursors, due to the expected data volume and the need…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-26 S. Riggi , G. Umana , C. Trigilio , C. Bordiu , F. Bufano , A. Ingallinera , F. Cavallaro , Y. Gordon , R. P. Norris , G. Gürkan , P. Leto , C. Buemi , S. Loru , A. M. Hopkins , M. D. Filipović , T. Cecconello

Radio galaxies can extend far beyond the stellar component of their originating host galaxies, and their radio emission can consist of multiple discrete components. Furthermore, the apparent source structure will depend on survey…