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We study non-parametric morphologies of mergers events in a cosmological context, using the Illustris project. We produce mock g-band images comparable to observational surveys from the publicly available Illustris simulation idealized mock…

[abridged] New near-infrared surveys, using the HST, offer an unprecedented opportunity to study rest-frame optical galaxy morphologies at z>1 and to calibrate automated morphological parameters that will play a key role in classifying…

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

Galaxy morphology reflects structural properties which contribute to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. Deep convolutional networks have proven to be very successful in learning hidden features that allow for unprecedented…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Shoulin Wei , Yadi Li , Wei Lu , Nan Li , Bo Liang , Wei Dai , Zhijian Zhang

We present a metric to quantify systematic labeling bias in galaxy morphology data sets stemming from the quality of the labeled data. This labeling bias is independent from labeling errors and requires knowledge about the intrinsic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 Guillermo Cabrera-Vives , Christopher J. Miller , Jeff Schneider

The various Euclid imaging surveys will become a reference for studies of galaxy morphology by delivering imaging over an unprecedented area of 15 000 square degrees with high spatial resolution. In order to understand the capabilities of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Euclid Collaboration , H. Bretonnière , U. Kuchner , M. Huertas-Company , E. Merlin , M. Castellano , D. Tuccillo , F. Buitrago , C. J. Conselice , A. Boucaud , B. Häußler , M. Kümmel , W. G. Hartley , A. Alvarez Ayllon , E. Bertin , F. Ferrari , L. Ferreira , R. Gavazzi , D. Hernández-Lang , G. Lucatelli , A. S. G. Robotham , M. Schefer , L. Wang , R. Cabanac , H. Domínguez Sánchez , P. -A. Duc , S. Fotopoulou , S. Kruk , A. La Marca , B. Margalef-Bentabol , F. R. Marleau , C. Tortora , N. Aghanim , A. Amara , N. Auricchio , R. Azzollini , M. Baldi , R. Bender , C. Bodendorf , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , R. Cledassou , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , F. Courbin , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , J. Dinis , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , B. Garilli , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , H. Hoekstra , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , R. Kohley , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , F. Marulli , R. Massey , H. J. McCracken , E. Medinaceli , M. Melchior , M. Meneghetti , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , S. M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. Percival , V. Pettorino , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , C. Rosset , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. Skottfelt , J. -L. Starck , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , I. Tutusaus , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , S. Andreon , S. Bardelli , C. Colodro-Conde , D. Di Ferdinando , J. Graciá-Carpio , V. Lindholm , N. Mauri , S. Mei , V. Scottez , E. Zucca , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , F. Bernardeau , A. Biviano , S. Borgani , A. S. Borlaff , C. Burigana , A. Cappi , C. S. Carvalho , S. Casas , G. Castignani , A. R. Cooray , J. Coupon , H. M. Courtois , S. Davini , G. De Lucia , G. Desprez , J. A. Escartin , S. Escoffier , M. Fabricius , M. Farina , A. Fontana , K. Ganga , J. Garcia-Bellido , K. George , G. Gozaliasl , H. Hildebrandt , I. Hook , O. Ilbert , S. Ilić , B. Joachimi , V. Kansal , E. Keihanen , C. C. Kirkpatrick , A. Loureiro , J. Macias-Perez , M. Magliocchetti , R. Maoli , S. Marcin , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , M. Maturi , P. Monaco , G. Morgante , S. Nadathur , A. A. Nucita , L. Patrizii , V. Popa , C. Porciani , D. Potter , A. Pourtsidou , M. Pöntinen , P. Reimberg , A. G. Sánchez , Z. Sakr , M. Schirmer , E. Sefusatti , M. Sereno , J. Stadel , R. Teyssier , J. Valiviita , S. E. van Mierlo , A. Veropalumbo , M. Viel , J. R. Weaver , D. Scott

The classification of galaxy morphologies is an important step in the investigation of theories of hierarchical structure formation. While human expert visual classification remains quite effective and accurate, it cannot keep up with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-13 Matthew J. Baumstark , Giuseppe Vinci

Galaxy morphology classification plays a crucial role in understanding the structure and evolution of the universe. With galaxy observation data growing exponentially, machine learning has become a core technology for this classification…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-29 Zhijian Luo , Jianzhen Chen , Zhu Chen , Shaohua Zhang , Liping Fu , Hubing Xiao , Chenggang Shu

Understanding how bulges grow in galaxies is critical step towards unveiling the link between galaxy morphology and star-formation. To do so, it is necessary to decompose large sample of galaxies at different epochs into their main…

The morphology of a galaxy has been shown to encode the evolutionary history and correlates strongly with physical properties such as stellar mass, star formation rates and past merger events. While the majority of galaxies in the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-23 Clár-Bríd Tohill , Steven Bamford , Christopher Conselice

The two-step galaxy morphology classification framework {\tt USmorph} successfully combines unsupervised machine learning (UML) with supervised machine learning (SML) methods. To enhance the UML step, we employed a dual-encoder architecture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Xiaolei Yin , Guanwen Fang , Shiying Lu , Zesen Lin , Yao Dai , Chichun Zhou

Being able to distinguish between galaxies that have recently undergone major merger events, or are experiencing intense star formation, is crucial for making progress in our understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies. As…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-01 Leonardo Ferreira , Christopher J. Conselice , Ulrike Kuchner , Clar-Bríd Tohill

We present a study on galaxy detection and shape classification using topometric clustering algorithms. We first use the DBSCAN algorithm to extract, from CCD frames, groups of adjacent pixels with significant fluxes and we then apply the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 A. Tramacere , D. Paraficz , P. Dubath , J. -P. Kneib , F. Courbin

Establishing accurate morphological measurements of galaxies in a reasonable amount of time for future big-data surveys such as EUCLID, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope or the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope is a challenge. Because…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 D. Tuccillo , M. Huertas-Company , E. Decenciere , S. Velasco-Forero

We revisit the evolution of galaxy morphology in the COSMOS field over the redshift range $0.2\leq z \leq 1$, using a large and complete sample of 33,605 galaxies with a stellar mass of log($M_{\ast}$/M$_{\odot} )>9.5$ with significantly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-29 Jian Ren , Nan Li , F. S. Liu , Qifan Cui , Mingxiang Fu , Xian Zhong Zheng

Classifying the morphologies of galaxies is an important step in understanding their physical properties and evolutionary histories. The advent of large-scale surveys has hastened the need to develop techniques for automated morphological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-28 Mitchell K. Cavanagh , Kenji Bekki , Brent A. Groves

We present an unsupervised machine learning technique that automatically segments and labels galaxies in astronomical imaging surveys using only pixel data. Distinct from previous unsupervised machine learning approaches used in astronomy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Alex Hocking , James E. Geach , Yi Sun , Neil Davey

[Abridged] We consider how galaxy clustering data, from Mpc to Gpc scales, from upcoming large scale structure surveys, such as Euclid and DESI, can provide discriminating information about the bispectrum shape arising from a variety of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Joyce Byun , Rachel Bean

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…

One of the most important properties of a galaxy is the total stellar mass, or equivalently the stellar mass-to-light ratio (M/L). It is not directly observable, but can be estimated from stellar population synthesis. Currently, a galaxy's…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-24 Wouter Dobbels , Serge Krier , Stephan Pirson , Sébastien Viaene , Gert De Geyter , Samir Salim , Maarten Baes