dc.contributor.author | Uzeirbegovic, Emir | |
dc.contributor.author | Geach, James E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kaviraj, Sugata | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-22T00:07:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-22T00:07:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-09-02 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Uzeirbegovic , E , Geach , J E & Kaviraj , S 2020 , ' Eigengalaxies: describing galaxy morphology using principal components in image space ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2651 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0035-8711 | |
dc.identifier.other | ArXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06734v2 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-5601-575X/work/80948507 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/23143 | |
dc.description | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society | |
dc.description.abstract | We demonstrate how galaxy morphologies can be represented by weighted sums of "eigengalaxies" and how eigengalaxies can be used in a probabilistic framework to enable principled and simplified approaches in a variety of applications. Eigengalaxies can be derived from a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of sets of single- or multi-band images. They encode the image space equivalent of basis vectors that can be combined to describe the structural properties of large samples of galaxies in a massively reduced manner. As an illustration, we show how a sample of 10,243 galaxies in the Hubble Space Telescope CANDELS survey can be represented by just 12 eigengalaxies. We show in some detail how this image space may be derived and tested. We also describe a probabilistic extension to PCA (PPCA) which enables the eigengalaxy framework to assign probabilities to galaxies. We present four practical applications of the probabilistic eigengalaxy framework that are particularly relevant for the next generation of large imaging surveys: we (i) show how low likelihood galaxies make for natural candidates for outlier detection (ii) demonstrate how missing data can be predicted (iii) show how a similarity search can be performed on exemplars (iv) demonstrate how unsupervised clustering of objects can be implemented. | en |
dc.format.extent | 2106913 | |
dc.language.iso | und | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | |
dc.subject | astro-ph.GA | |
dc.subject | astro-ph.IM | |
dc.title | Eigengalaxies: describing galaxy morphology using principal components in image space | |
dc.contributor.institution | Centre for Astrophysics Research (CAR) | |
dc.contributor.institution | Centre of Data Innovation Research | |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics | |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1093/mnras/staa2651 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
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