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We analyze the Near Infrared ($\sim0.8-1\mu$m) rest-frame morphologies of galaxies with $\log M_*/M_\odot>9$ in the redshift range $0<z<6$, compare with previous HST-based results and release the first JWST-based morphological catalog of…

We use the Galaxy Morphology Posterior Estimation Network (GaMPEN) to estimate morphological parameters and associated uncertainties for $\sim 8$ million galaxies in the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Wide survey with $z \leq 0.75$ and $m \leq…

We quantify the effects of \emph{morphological k-correction} at $1<z<2$ by comparing morphologies measured in the K and I-bands in the COSMOS area. Ks-band data have indeed the advantage of probing old stellar populations for $z<2$,…

[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…

Measuring the morphological parameters of galaxies is a key requirement for studying their formation and evolution. Surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have resulted in the availability of very large collections of images,…

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The advent of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has provided images of galaxies at moderate and high redshifts and changed the scope of galaxy morphologies considerably. It is evident that the Hubble Sequence requires modifications in order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Naim , K. U. Ratnatunga , R. E. Griffiths

Many statistical methods have been proposed in the last years for analyzing the spatial distribution of galaxies. Very few of them, however, can handle properly the border effects of complex observational sample volumes. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Enn Saar , Vicent J. Martinez , Jean-Luc Starck , David L. Donoho

We introduce a framework for the enhanced estimation of photometric redshifts using Self-Organising Maps (SOMs). Our method projects galaxy Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) onto a two-dimensional map, identifying regions that are…

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

The morphology of radio galaxies is indicative of their interaction with their surroundings, among other effects. Since modern radio surveys contain a large number of radio sources that would be impossible to analyse and classify manually,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-16 Nicolas Baron Perez , Marcus Brüggen , Gregor Kasieczka , Luisa Lucie-Smith

We present an optimisation method for the assignment of photometric galaxies into a chosen set of redshift bins. This is achieved by combining simulated annealing, an optimisation algorithm inspired by solid-state physics, with an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Benjamin Stölzner , Benjamin Joachimi , Andreas Korn , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

In order to understand the formation and subsequent evolution of galaxies one must first distinguish between the two main morphological classes of massive systems: spirals and early-type systems. This paper introduces a project, Galaxy Zoo,…

Galaxies of rare morphology are of paramount scientific interest, as they carry important information about the past, present, and future universe. Once a rare galaxy is identified, studying it more effectively requires a set of galaxies of…

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We use the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to investigate the relation between galaxy rest frame u-r colour, morphology, as described by the concentration and Sersic indices, and environmental density, for a sample of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-02 Nicholas M. Ball , Jon Loveday , Robert J. Brunner

We present an extended morphometric system to automatically classify galaxies from astronomical images. The new system includes the original and modified versions of the CASGM coefficients (Concentration $C_1$, Asymmetry $A_3$, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-21 Fabricio Ferrari , Reinaldo Ramos de Carvalho , Marina Trevisan

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

We examine morphology-separated color-mass diagrams to study the quenching of star formation in $\sim 100,000$ ($z\sim0$) Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and $\sim 20,000$ ($z\sim1$) Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-29 Aritra Ghosh , C. Megan Urry , Zhengdong Wang , Kevin Schawinski , Dennis Turp , Meredith C. Powell

Studies in the past few decades have investigated young stellar object evolution based on their spectral energy distribution (SED). The SED is heavily influenced not only by evolutionary stage, but also the morphology of the young star.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 David Hernandez , Odysseas Dionatos , Marc Audard , Gábor Marton , Julia Roquette , Ilknur Gezer , Máté Madarász , Kai L. Polsterer

We suggest a set of morphological measures that we believe can help in quantifying the shapes of two-dimensional cosmological images such as galaxies, clusters, and superclusters of galaxies. The method employs non-parametric morphological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-30 Nurur Rahman , Sergei F. Shandarin