Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-21-2019
Department
Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
We present a machine learning analysis of five labelled galaxy catalogues from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): The SersicCatVIKING and SersicCatUKIDSS catalogues containing morphological features, the GaussFitSimplecatalogue containing spectroscopic features, the MagPhys catalogue including physical parameters for galaxies, and the Lambdar catalogue, which contains photometric measurements. Extending work previously presented at the ESANN 2018 conference – in an analysis based on Generalized Relevance Matrix Learning Vector Quantization and Random Forests – we find that neither the data from the individual catalogues nor a combined dataset based on all 5 catalogues fully supports the visual-inspection-based galaxy classification scheme employed to categorise the galaxies. In particular, only one class, the Little Blue Spheroids, is consistently separable from the other classes. To aid further insight into the nature of the employed visual-based classification scheme with respect to physical and morphological features, we present the galaxy parameters that are discriminative for the achieved class distinctions.
ThinkIR Citation
Nolte, Aleke; Wang, Lingyu; Bilicki, Maciej; Holwerda, Benne W.; and Biehl, Michael, "Galaxy classification: A machine learning analysis of GAMA catalogue data" (2019). Faculty and Staff Scholarship. 485.
https://ir.library.louisville.edu/faculty/485
DOI
10.1016/j.neucom.2018.12.076
ORCID
0000-0002-4884-6756
