Bibcode
Huertas-Company, M.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Bernardi, M.; Mei, S.; Sánchez-Almeida, J.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 525, id.A157
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2011
Journal
Citations
167
Refereed citations
160
Description
We present an automated morphological classification in 4 types (E, S0,
Sab, Scd) of ~700 000 galaxies from the SDSS DR7 spectroscopic sample
based on support vector machines. The main new property of the
classification is that we associate a probability to each galaxy of
being in the four morphological classes instead of assigning a single
class. The classification is therefore better adapted to nature where we
expect a continuous transition between different morphological types.
The algorithm is trained with a visual classification and then compared
to several independent visual classifications including the Galaxy Zoo
first-release catalog. We find a very good correlation between the
automated classification and classical visual ones. The compiled catalog
is intended for use in different applications and is therefore freely
available through a dedicated webpage* and soon from the CasJobs
database.
Full catalog is only available in electronic form at CDS via anonymous
ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/525/A157
or via http://gepicom04.obspm.fr/sdss_morphology/Morphology_2010.html
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