Morphological Classification of Galaxies Using Artificial Neural Networks

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2001-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0110492v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

MSc thesis (1 year postgraduate course), University of Sussex, UK; 80 pages, submitted August 30th 2001

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The results of morphological galaxy classifications performed by humans and by automated methods are compared. In particular, a comparison is made between the eyeball classifications of 454 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) commissioning data (Shimasaku et al. 2001) with those of supervised artificial neural network programs constructed using the MATLAB Neural Network Toolbox package. Networks in this package have not previously been used for galaxy classification. It is found that simple neural networks are able to improve on the results of linear classifiers, giving correlation coefficients of the order of 0.8 +/- 0.1, compared with those of around 0.7 +/- 0.1 for linear classifiers. The networks are trained using the resilient backpropagation algorithm, which, to the author's knowledge, has not been specifically used in the galaxy classification literature. The galaxy parameters used and the network architecture are both important, and in particular the galaxy concentration index, a measure of the concentration of light towards the centre of the galaxy, is the most significant parameter. Simple networks are briefly applied to 29,429 galaxies with redshifts from the SDSS Early Data Release. They give an approximate ratio of types E/S0:Sp:Irr of 14 +/- 5 : 86 +/- 12 : 0 +/- 0.1, which broadly agrees with the well known approximate ratios of 20:80:1 observed at low redshift.

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