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Modern cosmological surveys such as the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey produce a huge volume of low-resolution images of both distant galaxies and dim stars in our own galaxy. Being able to automatically classify these images is a…

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In this paper, a deep convolutional neural network architecture for galaxies classification is presented. The galaxy can be classified based on its features into main three categories Elliptical, Spiral, and Irregular. The proposed deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Nour Eldeen M. Khalifa , Mohamed Hamed N. Taha , Aboul Ella Hassanien , I. M. Selim

We apply a combination of a Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Support Vector Machines (SVM) machine learning algorithm to solve two important problems faced by the astronomical community: star/galaxy separation, and photometric redshift…

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Classification will be an important first step for upcoming surveys that will detect billions of new sources such as LSST and Euclid, as well as DESI, 4MOST and MOONS. The application of traditional methods of model fitting and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 Crispin Logan , Sotiria Fotopoulou

We apply a new deep learning technique to detect, classify, and deblend sources in multi-band astronomical images. We train and evaluate the performance of an artificial neural network built on the Mask R-CNN image processing framework, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-22 Colin J. Burke , Patrick D. Aleo , Yu-Ching Chen , Xin Liu , John R. Peterson , Glenn H. Sembroski , Joshua Yao-Yu Lin

By applying our previously developed two-step scheme for galaxy morphology classification, we present a catalog of galaxy morphology for H-band selected massive galaxies in the COSMOS-DASH field, which includes 17292 galaxies with stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-07 Yao Dai , Jun Xu , Jie Song , Guanwen Fang , Chichun Zhou , Shuo Ba , Yizhou Gu , Zesen Lin , Xu Kong

We introduce Deep-CEE (Deep Learning for Galaxy Cluster Extraction and Evaluation), a proof of concept for a novel deep learning technique, applied directly to wide-field colour imaging to search for galaxy clusters, without the need for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-26 Matthew C. Chan , John P. Stott

The classification of galaxies as spirals or ellipticals is a crucial task in understanding their formation and evolution. With the arrival of large-scale astronomical surveys, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), astronomers now…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Anusha Guruprasad

The next generation of data-intensive surveys are bound to produce a vast amount of data, which can be dealt with using machine-learning methods to explore possible correlations within the multi-dimensional parameter space. We explore the…

One of the most relevant problems in the extraction of scientifically useful information from wide field astronomical images (both photographic plates and CCD frames) is the recognition of the objects against a noisy background and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 S. Andreon , G. Gargiulo , G. Longo , R. Tagliaferri , N. Capuano

Aims. Traditional star-galaxy classification techniques often rely on feature estimation from catalogues, a process susceptible to introducing inaccuracies, thereby potentially jeopardizing the classification's reliability. Certain…

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In Astrophysics, the identification of candidate Globular Clusters through deep, wide-field, single band HST images, is a typical data analytics problem, where methods based on Machine Learning have revealed a high efficiency and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-12 Giuseppe Angora , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Riccio , Stefano Cavuoti , Maurizio Paolillo , Thomas H. Puzia

We present a new application of deep learning to reconstruct the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps from the images of microwave sky, and to use these reconstructed maps to estimate the masses of galaxy clusters. We use a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-17 N. Gupta , C. L. Reichardt

As we enter the era of large imaging surveys such as $\textit{Roman}$, Rubin, and $\textit{Euclid}$, a deeper understanding of potential biases and selection effects in optical astronomical catalogs created with the use of ML-based methods…

A significant fraction of high redshift star-forming disc galaxies are known to host giant clumps, whose nature and role in galaxy evolution are yet to be understood. In this work we first present a new method based on neural networks to…

The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) is a cutting-edge two-meter astronomical space telescope currently under construction. Its primary Survey Camera (SC) is designed to conduct large-area imaging sky surveys using a sophisticated…

The new generation of deep photometric surveys requires unprecedentedly precise shape and photometry measurements of billions of galaxies to achieve their main science goals. At such depths, one major limiting factor is the blending of…

Starburst galaxies are often found to be the result of galaxy mergers. As a result, galaxy mergers are often believed to lie above the galaxy main sequence: the tight correlation between stellar mass and star formation rate. Here, we aim to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 William J. Pearson , Lingyu Wang , James Trayford , Carlo E. Petrillo , Floris F. S. van der Tak

Galaxy groups are essential for studying the distribution of matter on a large scale in redshift surveys and for deciphering the link between galaxy traits and their associated halos. In this work, we propose a widely applicable method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Juntao Ma , Jie Wang , Tianxiang Mao , Hongxiang Chen , Yuxi Meng , Xiaohu Yang , Qingyang Li

In astronomy, neural networks are often trained on simulation data with the prospect of being used on telescope observations. Unfortunately, training a model on simulation data and then applying it to instrument data leads to a substantial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-16 A. Ćiprijanović , D. Kafkes , K. Downey , S. Jenkins , G. N. Perdue , S. Madireddy , T. Johnston , G. F. Snyder , B. Nord