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To classify galaxies morphologically, we developed Galaxy Morphology Network, a convolutional neural network that classifies galaxies according to their bulge-to-total ratio. GaMorNet does not need a large training set of real data and can be applied to datasets with a range of signal-to-noise ratios and spatial resolutions. We first trained GaMorNet on simulations of galaxies with a bulge and a disk component and then used a technique called transfer learning to refine the already trained network using ∼25% of the real dataset to achieve misclassification rates of ≲5%. This has very important consequences, as the applicability of CNNs to future data-intensive surveys like LSST, WFIRST, and Euclid will depend on their ability to perform on multiple data-sets without the need for a large training set of real data. Using the GaMorNet classifications, we study the quenching of star formation in ∼100,000∼100,000 (z∼0z∼0) SDSS and ∼20,000 (z∼1) CANDELS galaxies. We find that bulge- and disk-dominated galaxies have completely different color-mass diagrams, in agreement with previous studies. For both SDSS and CANDELS galaxies, disk-dominated galaxies peak in the blue cloud, across a broad range of masses, consistent with slow exhaustion of star-forming gas with no rapid quenching. A small population of red disks is found at high mass (∼14% of disks at z∼0 and 2% of disks at z∼1). In contrast, bulge-dominated galaxies are mostly red, with much smaller numbers down towards the blue cloud, suggesting rapid quenching and fast evolution across the green valley.
SDSS, machine learning, morphology, CANDELS, quenching, gamornet, convolutional neural network, CNN
SDSS, machine learning, morphology, CANDELS, quenching, gamornet, convolutional neural network, CNN
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