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Mass loss is a key property to understand stellar evolution and in particular for low-metallicity environments. Our knowledge has improved dramatically over the last decades both for single and binary evolutionary models. However, episodic…

The intracluster light (ICL) is an important tracer of a galaxy cluster's history and past interactions. However, only small samples have been studied to date due to its very low surface brightness and the heavy manual involvement required…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-16 Louisa Canepa , Sarah Brough , Francois Lanusse , Mireia Montes , Nina Hatch

Conventionally, CMD analyses of nearby star clusters are based on observations in 2 passbands. They are plagued by considerable degeneracies between age, metallicity, distance (and extinction) that can largely be resolved by including…

Massive stars play an important role in the Universe. Unlike low-mass stars, the formation of these objects located at great distances is still unclear. It is expected to be governed by some combination of self-gravity, turbulence, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-07 A. G. Pazukhin , I. I. Zinchenko , E. A. Trofimova

The onset of massive star formation is not well understood because of observational and theoretical difficulties. To find the dense and cold clumps where massive star formation can take place, we compiled a sample of high infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 K. L. J. Rygl , F. Wyrowski , F. Schuller , K. M. Menten

We present an enhanced unsupervised machine learning (UML) module within our previous \texttt{USmorph} classification framework featuring two components: (1) hierarchical feature extraction via a pre-trained ConvNeXt convolutional neural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Guanwen Fang , Shiwei Zhu , Jun Xu , Shiying Lu , Chichun Zhou , Yao Dai , Zesen Lin , Xu Kong

This paper studies the properties of kiloparsec-scale clumps in star-forming galaxies at z~2 through multi-wavelength broad band photometry. A sample of 40 clumps is identified through auto-detection and visual inspection from 10 galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yicheng Guo , Mauro Giavalisco , Henry C. Ferguson , Paolo Cassata , Anton M. Koekemoer

The next generation near- and mid-infrared Galactic surveys will yield a large number of new highly obscured star clusters. Detailed characterization of these new objects with spectroscopy is time-consuming. Diagnostic tools that will be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Yuri Beletsky , Giovanni Carraro , Valentin D. Ivanov

Understanding how stars form, evolve and impact molecular clouds is key to understanding why star formation is such an inefficient process globally. In this paper, we use the infrared bright fraction, $f_\text{IRB}$ (the fraction of a given…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-12 E. J. Watkins , N. Peretto , A. J. Rigby , R. J. Smith , K. Kreckel , G. A. Fuller

Motivation: Structural heterogeneity in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data represents a major challenge for high-resolution structure determination. Unsupervised classification may serve as the first step in the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-11-01 Jiayi Wu , Yong-Bei Ma , Charles Congdon , Bevin Brett , Shuobing Chen , Qi Ouyang , Youdong Mao

Physical and chemical conditions (kinetic temperature, volume density, molecular composition) of interstellar clouds are inherent in their mm-submm line spectra, making spectral line profiles powerful diagnostics of source conditions. We…

The unprecedented volume and quality of data from space- and ground-based telescopes present an opportunity for machine learning to identify new classes of variable stars and peculiar systems that may have been overlooked by traditional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 P. Ranaivomanana , C. Johnston , G. Iorio , P. J. Groot , M. Uzundag , T. Kupfer , C. Aerts

In recent years, large scale data intensive astronomical surveys have resulted in more detailed images being produced than scientists can manually classify. Even attempts to crowd-source this work will soon be outpaced by the large amount…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Ezra Fielding , Clement N. Nyirenda , Mattia Vaccari

Identification of anomalous light curves within time-domain surveys is often challenging. In addition, with the growing number of wide-field surveys and the volume of data produced exceeding astronomers ability for manual evaluation,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Sara Webb , Michelle Lochner , Daniel Muthukrishna , Jeff Cooke , Chris Flynn , Ashish Mahabal , Simon Goode , Igor Andreoni , Tyler Pritchard , Timothy M. C. Abbott

In this work, we update the unsupervised machine learning (UML) step by proposing an algorithm based on ConvNeXt large model coding to improve the efficiency of unlabeled galaxy morphology classifications. The method can be summarized into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-03 Guanwen Fang , Yao Dai , Zesen Lin , Chichun Zhou , Jie Song , Yizhou Gu , Xiaotong Guo , Anqi Mao , Xu Kong

We report on a multi-wavelength (IR to cm) and multi-resolution (1 mas to 20 arcsec) exploration of high-mass star formation regions in the Galactic plane, at longitudes observable from the Southern Hemisphere. Our source sample was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Minier , M. G. Burton , T. Hill , C. R. Purcell , S. Longmore , A. J. Walsh , F. Herpin

Information on the spectral types of stars is of great interest in view of the exploitation of space-based imaging surveys. In this article, we investigate the classification of stars into spectral types using only the shape of their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 T. Kuntzer , M. Tewes , F. Courbin

Selective Laser Melting (SLM) is a powder-bed additive manufacturing technique whose part quality depends critically on feedstock morphology. However, conventional powder characterization methods are low-throughput and qualitative, failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Emmanuel Akeweje , Conall Kirk , Chi-Wai Chan , Denis Dowling , Mimi Zhang

In this work we explore the possibility of applying machine learning methods designed for one-dimensional problems to the task of galaxy image classification. The algorithms used for image classification typically rely on multiple costly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 F. Tarsitano , C. Bruderer , K. Schawinski , W. G. Hartley