SUrvey Network for Deep Imaging Analysis and Learning

Project Information

SUNDIAL

Grant agreement ID: 721463

DOI 10.3030/721463

Project closed

EC signature date 12 August 2016

Start date 1 April 2017

End date 30 September 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 3 602 483,52

EU contribution € 3 602 483,52

Coordinated by

RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN
Netherlands

Deliverables

Documents, reports (16)

Classification Algorithm

Machine Learning Algorithm for classifying galaxies using imaging and spectroscopypublished on our website together with a document describing it

Faint object detection method algorithm

Algorithm for faint object detection with integrated noise, instrument, and background,, published on our website, together with a document describing it.

Catalogue of Simulations

Systematic catalogue of simulations of interacting galaxies including visualizations published on our website with a document describing it

Web release of pictures and movies of simulations

Web releases of pictures of simulations and observations, interesting for the public as well as scientists, with a document describing it.

Connected filter algorithm

Algorithm for trainable connected and morphological COSFIRE filters published on our website together with a document describing it

Database of Fornax Galaxies

Interactive database of galaxies in the Fornax Cluster on our website including an HI fluxes and colour gradients with a document describing it

Filters with trainable connectivity

Algorithm for filters with trainable connectivity published on our website with a document describing it

Classification tools for Citizen Science

Classification tools for nonastronomers to involve the general public in the way that ZooUniverse has been doing published on our website with a document describing them

Course-material for Children

SUNDIAL coursematerial for children published on our website and a document describing it

Data Management Plan
Database of halo properties

Published database of stellar halo properties around massive galaxies with an electronic version published on our website

Promotion Movie

Promotion movie about galaxy classification and the relevant computer algorithms to be developed by SUNDIAL published on our website with a report describing it

Multi wavelength galaxy catalogue

Published multiwavelength catalogue of galaxies in the Fornax Cluster with an electronic version published on our website

Image Decomposition Report

A report of the new analysis method for automatic multicomponent 2D image decomposition published on our website

Galaxy Classification Catalogues

Calatogue of galaxy classifications based on the newly developed methods with an electronic version published on our website and a document describing itThis deliverable will be a publication

Catalogue of streams

Published catalogue of faint stellar streams in the Fornax Cluster, with an electronic version published on our website.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Movies and Pictures of Simulations

Movies and pictures of simulations will be made available on website

Other (1)

Proceedings of International Conference

Proceedings of International Conference to be held in Month 8 So Due Date should be 54

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (28)

The Fornax Deep Survey with VST

Author(s): M. A. Raj, E. Iodice, N. R. Napolitano, M. Hilker, M. Spavone, R. F. Peletier, H-S. Su, J. Falcón-Barroso, G. van de Ven, M. Cantiello, D. Kleiner, A. Venhola, S. Mieske, M. Paolillo, M. Capaccioli, P. Schipani
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 640, 2020, Page(s) A137, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038043

Improving the reliability of photometric redshift with machine learning

Author(s): Oleksandra Razim; Stefano Cavuoti; Massimo Brescia; Giuseppe Riccio; Mara Salvato; Giuseppe Longo
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 507, Issue 4, November 2021, 2021, Page(s) Pages 5034–5052, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2334

Signatures of quenching in dwarf galaxies in local galaxy clusters

Author(s): Joachim Janz, Heikki Salo, Alan H. Su, Aku Venhola
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 647, 2021, Page(s) A80, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039408

The Fornax Deep Survey (FDS) with the VST

Author(s): A. H. Su, H. Salo, J. Janz, E. Laurikainen, A. Venhola, R. F. Peletier, E. Iodice, M. Hilker, M. Cantiello, N. Napolitano, M. Spavone, M. A. Raj, G. van de Ven, S. Mieske, M. Paolillo, M. Capaccioli, E. A. Valentijn, A. E. Watkins
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 647, 2021, Page(s) A100, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039633

A MeerKAT view of pre-processing in the Fornax A group

Author(s): D. Kleiner, P. Serra, F. M. Maccagni, A. Venhola, K. Morokuma-Matsui, R. Peletier, E. Iodice, M. A. Raj, W. J. G. de Blok, A. Comrie, G. I. G. Józsa, P. Kamphuis, A. Loni, S. I. Loubser, D. Cs. Molnár, S. S. Passmoor, M. Ramatsoku, A. Sivitilli, O. Smirnov, K. Thorat, F. Vitello
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 648, 2021, Page(s) A32, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039898

Are ultra-diffuse galaxies Milky Way-sized?

Author(s): Nushkia Chamba, Ignacio Trujillo, Johan H. Knapen
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 633, 2020, Page(s) L3, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936821

On the accretion of a new group of galaxies on to Virgo: I. Internal kinematics of nine in-falling dEs

Author(s): Bahar Bidaran, Anna Pasquali, Thorsten Lisker, Lodovico Coccato, Jesus Falcón-Barroso, Glenn van de Ven, Reynier Peletier, Eric Emsellem, Eva K Grebel, Francesco La Barbera, Joachim Janz, Agnieszka Sybilska, Rukmani Vijayaraghavan, John Gallagher, Dimitri A Gadotti
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 497/2, 2020, Page(s) 1904-1924, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2097

Globular cluster detection in the GAIA survey

Author(s): M. Mohammadi, N. Petkov, K. Bunte, R.F. Peletier, F.-M. Schleif
Published in: Neurocomputing, Issue 342, 2019, Page(s) 164-171, ISSN 0925-2312
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2018.10.081

A physically motivated definition for the size of galaxies in an era of ultradeep imaging

Author(s): Ignacio Trujillo, Nushkia Chamba, Johan H Knapen
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 493/1, 2020, Page(s) 87-105, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa236

The number of globular clusters around the iconic UDG DF44 is as expected for dwarf galaxies

Author(s): Teymoor Saifollahi, Ignacio Trujillo, Michael A Beasley, Reynier F Peletier, Johan H Knapen
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 502/4, 2021, Page(s) 5921-5934, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3016

The Fornax Deep Survey (FDS) with VST XII: Low surface brightness dwarf galaxies in the Fornax cluster

Author(s): Aku Venhola, Reynier F. Peletier, Heikki Salo, Eija Laurikainen, Joachim Janz, Caroline Haigh, Michael H. F. Wilkinson, Enrichetta Iodice, Michael Hilker, Steffen Mieske, Michele Cantiello, Marilena Spavone
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag

A tale of two tails: insights from simulations into the formation of the peculiar dwarf galaxy NGC 1427A

Author(s): M Mastropietro, S De Rijcke, R F Peletier
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 504/3, 2021, Page(s) 3387-3398, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1091

ASAP – A sub-sampling approach for preserving topological structures modeled with geodesic topographic mapping

Author(s): Taghribi, A. , Canducci, M. , Mastropietro, M. , De Rijcke, S. , Bunte, K. & Tino, P
Published in: Neurocomputing, Issue Neurocomputing. 470 , p. 376-388, 2022, Page(s) 376-388, ISSN 0925-2312
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2021.05.108

Photometric Redshifts With Machine Learning, Lights and Shadows on a Complex Data Science Use Case

Author(s): Massimo Brescia, Stefano Cavuoti, Oleksandra Razim, Valeria Amaro, Giuseppe Riccio, Giuseppe Longo
Published in: Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, Issue 8, 2021, ISSN 2296-987X
Publisher: [e-mail]
DOI: 10.3389/fspas.2021.658229

A new astrophysical solution to the Too Big To Fail problem

Author(s): R. Verbeke, E. Papastergis, A. A. Ponomareva, S. Rathi, S. De Rijcke
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 607, 2017, Page(s) A13, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730758

Galaxy classification: A machine learning analysis of GAMA catalogue data

Author(s): Aleke Nolte, Lingyu Wang, Maciej Bilicki, Benne Holwerda, Michael Biehl
Published in: Neurocomputing, Issue 342, 2019, Page(s) 172-190, ISSN 0925-2312
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2018.12.076

The first sample of spectroscopically confirmed ultra-compact massive galaxies in the Kilo Degree Survey

Author(s): C Tortora, N R Napolitano, M Spavone, F La Barbera, G D’Ago, C Spiniello, K H Kuijken, N Roy, M A Raj, S Cavuoti, M Brescia, G Longo, V Pota, C E Petrillo, M Radovich, F Getman, L V E Koopmans, I Trujillo, G Verdoes Kleijn, M Capaccioli, A Grado, G Covone, D Scognamiglio, C Blake, K Glazebrook, S Joudaki, C Lidman, C Wolf
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 481/4, 2018, Page(s) 4728-4752, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2564

Evolution of galaxy size–stellar mass relation from the Kilo-Degree Survey

Author(s): N Roy, N R Napolitano, F La Barbera, C Tortora, F Getman, M Radovich, M Capaccioli, M Brescia, S Cavuoti, G Longo, M A Raj, E Puddu, G Covone, V Amaro, C Vellucci, A Grado, K Kuijken, G Verdoes Kleijn, E Valentijn
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 480/1, 2018, Page(s) 1057-1080, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1917

The Fornax Deep Survey with the VST

Author(s): M. A. Raj, E. Iodice, N. R. Napolitano, M. Spavone, H-S. Su, R. F. Peletier, T. A. Davis, N. Zabel, M. Hilker, S. Mieske, J. Falcon Barroso, M. Cantiello, G. van de Ven, A. E. Watkins, H. Salo, P. Schipani, M. Capaccioli, A. Venhola
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 628, 2019, Page(s) A4, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935433

Historical Perspectives on the Concept of Galaxy Size

Author(s): Nushkia Chamba
Published in: Research Notes of the AAS, Issue 4/7, 2020, Page(s) 117, ISSN 2515-5172
Publisher: AAS Publishing
DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/aba951

Detection of Globular Clusters in the Halo of Milky Way

Author(s): Mohammad Mohammadi, Nicolai Petkov, Reynier Peletier, Pedro Bibiloni Serrano, Kerstin Bunte
Published in: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA), Issue 310, 2018, ISSN 2405-6456
Publisher: IOS press
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-419-0-27

Ultra-compact dwarfs beyond the centre of the Fornax galaxy cluster: hints of UCD formation in low-density environments

Author(s): Teymoor Saifollahi, Joachim Janz, Reynier F Peletier, Michele Cantiello, Michael Hilker, Steffen Mieske, Edwin A Valentijn, Aku Venhola, Gijs Verdoes Kleijn
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 504/3, 2021, Page(s) 3580-3609, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1118

The Fornax Deep Survey with VSTVIII. Connecting the accretion history with the cluster density

Author(s): M. Spavone, E. Iodice, G. van de Ven, J. Falcón-Barroso, M. A. Raj, M. Hilker, R. P. Peletier, M. Capaccioli, S. Mieske, A. Venhola, N. R. Napolitano, M. Cantiello, M. Paolillo, P. Schipani
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A), Issue Volume 639, July 2020, 2020, Page(s) 16, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag

Probabilistic modelling of general noisy multi-manifold data sets

Author(s): M. Canducci, P. Tiño, M. Mastropietro
Published in: Artificial Intelligence, 2021, Page(s) 103579, ISSN 0004-3702
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2021.103579

“Observations” of simulated dwarf galaxies

Author(s): Shivangee Rathi, Michele Mastropietro, Sven De Rijcke, Carme Gallart, Edouard Bernard, Robbert Verbeke
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 642, 2020, Page(s) A40, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201937142

VEGAS: A VST Early-type GAlaxy Survey

Author(s): Rossella Ragusa, Marilena Spavone, Enrichetta Iodice, Sarah Brough, Maria Angela Raj, Maurizio Paolillo, Michele Cantiello, Duncan A. Forbes, Antonio La Marca, Giuseppe D’Ago, Roberto Rampazzo, Pietro Schipani
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 651, 2021, Page(s) A39, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039921

Optimising and comparing source-extraction tools using objective segmentation quality criteria

Author(s): Caroline Haigh, Nushkia Chamba, Aku Venhola, Reynier Peletier, Lars Doorenbos, Matthew Watkins, Michael H. F. Wilkinson
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 645, 2021, Page(s) A107, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936561

Building the Largest Spectroscopic Sample of Ultracompact Massive Galaxies with the Kilo Degree Survey

Author(s): Diana Scognamiglio, Crescenzo Tortora, Marilena Spavone, Chiara Spiniello, Nicola R. Napolitano, Giuseppe D’Ago, Francesco La Barbera, Fedor Getman, Nivya Roy, Maria Angela Raj, Mario Radovich, Massimo Brescia, Stefano Cavuoti, Léon V. E. Koopmans, Konrad H. Kuijken, Giuseppe Longo, Carlo E. Petrillo
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 893/1, 2020, Page(s) 4, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab7db3

Conference proceedings (3)

ASAP : a sub-sampling approach for preserving topological structures

Author(s): Abolfazl Taghribi, Kerstin Bunte, Michele Mastropietro, Sven De Rijcke, Peter Tino
Published in: Proceedings of the 28th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), 2020, ISBN 9782875870742
Publisher: Ciaco - i6doc.com

CGO: Multiband Astronomical Source Detection With Component-Graphs

Author(s): Thanh Xuan Nguyen, Giovanni Chierchia, Laurent Najman, Aku Venhola, Caroline Haigh, Reynier Peletier, Michael H.F. Wilkinson, Hugues Talbot, Benjamin Perret
Published in: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2020, Page(s) 16-20, ISBN 978-1-7281-6395-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icip40778.2020.9191276

Tracking the Temporal-Evolution of Supernova Bubbles in Numerical Simulations

Author(s): Marco Canducci, Abolfazl Taghribi, Michele Mastropietro, Sven de Rijcke, Reynier Peletier, Kerstin Bunte, Peter Tino
Published in: Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2021, 2021, Page(s) pp 493-501, ISBN 978-3-030-91607-7
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-91608-4_49

Book chapters (1)

Prototype-based analysis of GAMA galaxy catalogue data

Author(s): A. Nolte, L. Wang, M Biehl
Published in: ESANN, European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, 2018, Page(s) 339-344, ISBN 978-287-587-048-3
Publisher: Ciaco - i6doc.com

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Erratum: A physically motivated definition for the size of galaxies in an era of ultra-deep imaging

Author(s): Ignacio Trujillo, Nushkia Chamba, Johan H Knapen
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 495/4, 2020, Page(s) 3777-3779, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1446