Morphological Galaxy Classification with Shapelets

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Dec 2008

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CLASSIFICATION AND DISCOVERY IN LARGE ASTRONOMICAL SURVEYS: Proceedings of the International Conference: ``Classification and Di

Computer Science

Databases

Quasars, Active Or Peculiar Galaxies, Objects, And Systems, Astronomical Catalogs, Atlases, Sky Surveys, Databases, Retrieval Systems, Archives, Etc., Multicellular Phenomena, Biofilms

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We present an unsupervised classification algorithm, that identifies natural classes of galaxy morphologies. Working on SDSS G-band imaging data, we encode the morphologies by shapelet decomposition. The algorithm employs a model-based soft clustering analysis to find groupings of similar data points. We demonstrate that the algorithm is able to clearly identify and distinguish groups of elliptical, face-on and edge-on spiral galaxies in a training data set. Based on the soft clustering results, we set up a soft classifier for a data set containing 1602 SDSS galaxies.

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