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Robust measurements of cosmological parameters from galaxy surveys rely on our understanding of systematic effects that impact the observed galaxy density field. In this paper we present, validate, and implement the idea of adopting the…

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Dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters have long played a role in galaxy cluster studies because it is thought their properties can be reconstructed more precisely and with less systematics. As relaxed clusters are desirable, there exist a…

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The study of morphology in galaxies offers a convenient and quantitative method to measure the shapes and characteristics of galaxy light distribution that reflect the evolutionary history. For AGN-host dwarf galaxies, however, there is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-09 Jie Tian , Yinghe Zhao , Xiejin Li , Jinming Bai

The well-known cluster of galaxies ZwCl0024+1652 at z $\sim$ 0.4, lacks an in-depth morphological classification of its central region. While previous studies provide a visual classification of a patched area, we used the public code called…

A simple, fully connected neural network with a single hidden layer is used to estimate stellar masses for star-forming galaxies. The model is trained on broad-band photometry - from far-ultraviolet to mid-infrared wavelengths - generated…

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We use Bayesian convolutional neural networks and a novel generative model of Galaxy Zoo volunteer responses to infer posteriors for the visual morphology of galaxies. Bayesian CNN can learn from galaxy images with uncertain labels and…

The distribution of global photometric, spectroscopic, structural and morphological parameters for a well defined sample of 350 nearby galaxies has been examined. The usual trends were recovered demonstrating that E/S0 galaxies are redder,…

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Making mock simulated catalogs is an important component of astrophysical data analysis. Selection criteria for observed astronomical objects are often too complicated to be derived from first principles. However the existence of an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Amir Hajian , Marcelo Alvarez , J. Richard Bond

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

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

We present a novel multimodal neural network (MNN) for classifying astronomical sources in multiband ground-based observations, from optical to near infrared, to separate sources in stars, galaxies and quasars. Our approach combines a…

Cosmological theories suggest that the angular momentum of galaxies should be closely linked to the structure of the cosmic web. The Local Supercluster is the closest and most studied structure where the orientation of galaxy spins can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 P. Dolgosheeva , D. Makarov , N. Libeskind

We use the two-point correlation function in redshift space, $\xi(s)$, to study the clustering of the galaxies and groups of the Nearby Optical Galaxy (NOG) Sample, which is a nearly all-sky, complete, magnitude-limited sample of \~7000…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Giuricin , S. Samurovic , M. Girardi , M. Mezzetti , C. Marinoni

Galaxy-scale strong lenses in galaxy clusters provide a unique tool to investigate their inner mass distribution and the sub-halo density profiles in the low-mass regime, which can be compared with the predictions from cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 G. Angora , P. Rosati , M. Meneghetti , M. Brescia , A. Mercurio , C. Grillo , P. Bergamini , A. Acebron , G. Caminha , M. Nonino , L. Tortorelli , L. Bazzanini , E. Vanzella

Automated techniques have been developed to automate the process of classification of objects or their analysis. The large datasets provided by upcoming spectroscopic surveys with dedicated telescopes urges scientists to use these automated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Mahdi Bazarghan , Ranjan Gupta

The number density of galaxy clusters across mass and redshift has been established as a powerful cosmological probe. Cosmological analyses with galaxy clusters traditionally employ scaling relations. However, many challenges arise from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 M. Kosiba , N. Cerardi , M. Pierre , F. Lanusse , C. Garrel , N. Werner , M. Shalak

In this paper we discuss an application of machine learning based methods to the identification of candidate AGN from optical survey data and to the automatic classification of AGNs in broad classes. We applied four different machine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-14 Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Raffaele D'Abrusco , Giuseppe Longo , Maurizio Paolillo

We present a morphological study of galaxies in the A901/902 supercluster from the COMBO-17 survey. A total of 570 galaxies with photometric redshifts in the range 0.155 < z_phot < 0.185 are visually classified by three independent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 K. P. Lane , M. E. Gray , A. Aragon-Salamanca , C. Wolf , K. Meisenheimer

The distinction between stars and galaxies is a fundamental problem in the field of celestial classification. This issue has become challenging for these ongoing and upcoming digital surveys, which will produce terabytes and even petabytes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Zhuoming Han , Tianmeng Zhang , Chao Liu , Chenxiaoji Ling

We investigate the photometric properties of 456 bright galaxies using imaging data recorded during the commissioning phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Morphological classification is carried out by correlating results of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 K. Shimasaku , M. Fukugita , M. Doi , M. Hamabe , T. Ichikawa , S. Okamura , M. Sekiguchi , N. Yasuda
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