Galaxy Classification by Human Eyes and by Artificial Neural Networks

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1995-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9505091v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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review talk in "The World of Galaxies II", Lyon 1994. 13 pages (including 3 figures). Compressed postscript file available by

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The rapid increase in data on galaxy images at low and high redshift calls for re-examination of the classification schemes and for new automatic objective methods. Here we present a classification method by Artificial Neural Networks. We also show results from a comparative study we carried out using a new sample of 830 APM digitised galaxy images. These galaxy images were classified by 6 experts independently. It is shown that the ANNs can replicate the classification by a human expert almost to the same degree of agreement as that between two human experts, to within 2 $T$-type units. Similar methods can be applied to automatic classification of galaxy spectra. We illustrate it by Principal Component Analysis of galaxy spectra, and discuss future large surveys.

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