Classification of Galaxy Morphologies using Artificial Neural Network
Manish Biswas, Ritesh Adlak · 2018
From the beginning of the modern astronomy, there has been a huge collection of image data set from various projects and surveys like Galaxy Zoo and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) which is used for the study of the universe. But they do not provide classification information about the galaxy images it contained. During the past decade, the manual classification of the objects in these images are becoming obsolete due to the use machine learning methods which make this process automated. This tool makes use of the artificial neural network (ANN) to classify the galaxy morphologies into three classes. This algorithm classifies galaxies into a spiral, elliptical and irregular.