The search for galaxy cluster members with deep learning of panchromatic HST imaging and extensive spectroscopy
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The search for galaxy cluster members with deep learning of panchromatic HST imaging and extensive spectroscopy. / Angora, G.; Rosati, P.; Brescia, M.; Mercurio, A.; Grillo, C.; Caminha, G.; Meneghetti, M.; Nonino, M.; Vanzella, E.; Bergamini, P.; Biviano, A.; Lombardi, M.
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T1 - The search for galaxy cluster members with deep learning of panchromatic HST imaging and extensive spectroscopy
AU - Angora, G.
AU - Rosati, P.
AU - Brescia, M.
AU - Mercurio, A.
AU - Grillo, C.
AU - Caminha, G.
AU - Meneghetti, M.
AU - Nonino, M.
AU - Vanzella, E.
AU - Bergamini, P.
AU - Biviano, A.
AU - Lombardi, M.
PY - 2020/11/20
Y1 - 2020/11/20
N2 - Context. The next generation of extensive and data-intensive surveys are bound to produce a vast amount of data, which can be efficiently dealt with using machine-learning and deep-learning methods to explore possible correlations within the multi-dimensional parameter space.Aims. We explore the classification capabilities of convolution neural networks (CNNs) to identify galaxy cluster members (CLMs) by using Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of fifteen galaxy clusters at redshift 0.19 less than or similar to z less than or similar to 0.60, observed as part of the CLASH and Hubble Frontier Field programmes.Methods. We used extensive spectroscopic information, based on the CLASH-VLT VIMOS programme combined with MUSE observations, to define the knowledge base. We performed various tests to quantify how well CNNs can identify cluster members on ht basis of imaging information only. Furthermore, we investigated the CNN capability to predict source memberships outside the training coverage, in particular, by identifying CLMs at the faint end of the magnitude distributions.Results. We find that the CNNs achieve a purity-completeness rate greater than or similar to 90%, demonstrating stable behaviour across the luminosity and colour of cluster galaxies, along with a remarkable generalisation capability with respect to cluster redshifts. We concluded that if extensive spectroscopic information is available as a training base, the proposed approach is a valid alternative to catalogue-based methods because it has the advantage of avoiding photometric measurements, which are particularly challenging and time-consuming in crowded cluster cores. As a byproduct, we identified 372 photometric cluster members, with mag(F814) <25, to complete the sample of 812 spectroscopic members in four galaxy clusters RX J2248-4431, MACS J0416-2403, MACS J1206-0847 and MACS J1149+2223.Conclusions. When this technique is applied to the data that are expected to become available from forthcoming surveys, it will be an efficient tool for a variety of studies requiring CLM selection, such as galaxy number densities, luminosity functions, and lensing mass reconstruction.
AB - Context. The next generation of extensive and data-intensive surveys are bound to produce a vast amount of data, which can be efficiently dealt with using machine-learning and deep-learning methods to explore possible correlations within the multi-dimensional parameter space.Aims. We explore the classification capabilities of convolution neural networks (CNNs) to identify galaxy cluster members (CLMs) by using Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of fifteen galaxy clusters at redshift 0.19 less than or similar to z less than or similar to 0.60, observed as part of the CLASH and Hubble Frontier Field programmes.Methods. We used extensive spectroscopic information, based on the CLASH-VLT VIMOS programme combined with MUSE observations, to define the knowledge base. We performed various tests to quantify how well CNNs can identify cluster members on ht basis of imaging information only. Furthermore, we investigated the CNN capability to predict source memberships outside the training coverage, in particular, by identifying CLMs at the faint end of the magnitude distributions.Results. We find that the CNNs achieve a purity-completeness rate greater than or similar to 90%, demonstrating stable behaviour across the luminosity and colour of cluster galaxies, along with a remarkable generalisation capability with respect to cluster redshifts. We concluded that if extensive spectroscopic information is available as a training base, the proposed approach is a valid alternative to catalogue-based methods because it has the advantage of avoiding photometric measurements, which are particularly challenging and time-consuming in crowded cluster cores. As a byproduct, we identified 372 photometric cluster members, with mag(F814) <25, to complete the sample of 812 spectroscopic members in four galaxy clusters RX J2248-4431, MACS J0416-2403, MACS J1206-0847 and MACS J1149+2223.Conclusions. When this technique is applied to the data that are expected to become available from forthcoming surveys, it will be an efficient tool for a variety of studies requiring CLM selection, such as galaxy number densities, luminosity functions, and lensing mass reconstruction.
KW - Galaxy: general
KW - galaxies: photometry
KW - galaxies: distances and redshifts
KW - techniques: image processing
KW - methods: data analysis
KW - DARK-MATTER
KW - CLASSIFICATION
U2 - 10.1051/0004-6361/202039083
DO - 10.1051/0004-6361/202039083
M3 - Journal article
VL - 643
JO - Astronomy & Astrophysics
JF - Astronomy & Astrophysics
SN - 0004-6361
M1 - A177
ER -
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