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most citedThe most-luminous heavily-obscured quasars have a high merger fraction: morphological study of WISE-selected hot dust-obscured galaxies

108 citations · 640 across the 48 of their papers we have counts for

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48 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Difference Between Half-mass Radius and Half-light Radius of Galaxies at 0.2 2.5 Revealed by JWST/NIRCam Data

Mingen Xin, Guanwen Fang, Jie Song +3

Using JWST observations in CANDELS fields, we measure the half-light radius () and half-mass radius () for 14,333 galaxies with stellar masses $M_*…

astro-ph.GA2026

Robustness Analysis of USmorph: II. Optimizing Feature Extraction, Dimensionality Reduction, and Clustering for Unsupervised Galaxy Morphology Classification

Guanwen Fang, Xiaolei Yin, Yirui Zheng +5

We conduct a systematic robustness analysis of the unsupervised machine learning module within the hybrid framework \texttt{USmorph}. This module automatically discovers morphologi…

astro-ph.GA2025

A robust morphological classification method for galaxies using dual-encoding contrastive learning and multi-clustering voting on JWST/NIRCam images

Xiaolei Yin, Guanwen Fang, Shiying Lu +3

The two-step galaxy morphology classification framework {\tt USmorph} successfully combines unsupervised machine learning (UML) with supervised machine learning (SML) methods. To e…

astro-ph.GA2025

Robustness Analysis of USmorph: I. Generalization Efficiency of Unsupervised Strategies and Supervised Learning in Galaxy Morphological Classification

Shiwei Zhu, Guanwen Fang, Yao Dai +5

We conduct a systematic robustness analysis of the hybrid machine learning framework \texttt{USmorph}, which integrates unsupervised and supervised learning for galaxy morphologica…

astro-ph.GA2025

An updated efficient galaxy morphology classification model based on ConvNeXt encoding with UMAP dimensionality reduction

Guanwen Fang, Shiwei Zhu, Jun Xu +5

We present an enhanced unsupervised machine learning (UML) module within our previous \texttt{USmorph} classification framework featuring two components: (1) hierarchical feature e…

astro-ph.GA2025

Dual-coding contrastive learning based on ConvNeXt and ViT models for morphological classification of galaxies in COSMOS-Web

Shiwei Zhu, Guanwen Fang, Chichun Zhou +4

In our previous works, we proposed a machine learning framework named \texttt{USmorph} for efficiently classifying galaxy morphology. In this study, we propose a self-supervised me…

astro-ph.GA2025

Transition from Outside-in to Inside-Out at : Evidence from Radial Profiles of Specific Star Formation Rate based on JWST/HST

Jie Song, Enci Wang, Cheng Jia +7

By combining high-resolution observations from JWST and HST, we have measured the stellar masses, star formation rates (SFRs), and multi-wavelength morphologies of galaxies in the…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

An efficient unsupervised classification model for galaxy morphology: Voting clustering based on coding from ConvNeXt large model

Guanwen Fang, Yao Dai, Zesen Lin +6

In this work, we update the unsupervised machine learning (UML) step by proposing an algorithm based on ConvNeXt large model coding to improve the efficiency of unlabeled galaxy mo…

astro-ph.GA2024

Multi-Layer Perceptron for Predicting Galaxy Parameters (MLP-GaP): stellar masses and star formation rates

Xiaotong Guo, Guanwen Fang, Haicheng Feng +1

The large-scale imaging survey will produce massive photometric data in multi-bands for billions of galaxies. Defining strategies to quickly and efficiently extract useful physical…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

Preparation for CSST: Star-galaxy Classification using a Rotationally Invariant Supervised Machine Learning Method

Shiliang Zhang, Guanwen Fang, Jie Song +6

Most existing star-galaxy classifiers depend on the reduced information from catalogs, necessitating careful data processing and feature extraction. In this study, we employ a supe…

astro-ph.GA2024

USmorph: An Updated Framework of Automatic Classification of Galaxy Morphologies and Its Application to Galaxies in the COSMOS Field

Jie Song, GuanWen Fang, Shuo Ba +9

Morphological classification conveys abundant information on the formation, evolution, and environment of galaxies. In this work, we refine the two-step galaxy morphological classi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 15 cited

Solution to the conflict between the resolved and unresolved galaxy stellar mass estimation from the perspective of JWST

Jie Song, GuanWen Fang, Zesen Lin +2

By utilizing the spatially-resolved photometry of galaxies at in the CEERS field, we estimate the resolved and unresolved stellar mass via spectral energy distribution…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Evolution of Non-parametric Morphology of Galaxies in the JWST CEERS Field at 0.8-3.0

Yao Yao, Jie Song, Xu Kong +3

Galaxy morphology is one of the most fundamental ways to describe galaxy properties, but the morphology we observe may be affected by wavelength and spatial resolution, which may i…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Classification of Galaxy Morphology in H-band of COSMOS-DASH Field: a combination-based machine learning clustering model

Yao Dai, Jun Xu, Jie Song +6

By applying our previously developed two-step scheme for galaxy morphology classification, we present a catalog of galaxy morphology for H-band selected massive galaxies in the COS…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

A comparison of cosmological models with high-redshift quasars

Liuyuan Fan, Guanwen Fang, Jian Hu

The non-linear relationship between the monochromatic X-ray and UV luminosities in quasars offers the possibility of using high-z quasars as standard candles for cosmological testi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

The effect of environment on the properties of the most massive galaxies at in the cosmos-dash field

Jie Song, Guanwen Fang, Yizhou Gu +2

How the environment influences the most massive galaxies is still unclear. To explore the environmental effects on morphology and star formation in the most massive galaxies at hig…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 3 cited

Multiwavelength Analysis of a Nearby Heavily Obscured AGN in NGC 449

Xiaotong Guo, Qiusheng Gu, Jun Xu +5

We presented the multiwavelength analysis of a heavily obscured active galactic nucleus (AGN) in NGC 449. We first constructed a broadband X-ray spectrum using the latest NuSTAR an…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 34 cited

Automatic Classification of Galaxy Morphology: a rotationally invariant supervised machine learning method based on the UML-dataset

G. W. Fang, S. Ba, Y. Z. Gu +8

Classification of galaxy morphology is a challenging but meaningful task for the enormous amount of data produced by the next-generation telescope. By introducing the adaptive pola…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 10 cited

The physical properties of massive green valley galaxies as a function of environments at in 3D-\textit{HST}/CANDELS fields

Wenjun Chang, Guanwen Fang, Yizhou Gu +3

To investigate the effects of environment in the quenching phase, we study the empirical relations for green valley (GV) galaxies between overdensity and other physical properties…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 2 cited

Automatic morphological classification of galaxies: convolutional autoencoder and bagging-based multiclustering model

C. C. Zhou, Y. Z. Gu, G. W. Fang +1

In order to obtain morphological information of unlabeled galaxies, we present an unsupervised machine-learning (UML) method for morphological classification of galaxies, which can…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 6 cited

AGN lifetimes in UV-selected galaxies: a clue to supermassive black hole-host galaxy coevolution

Xiaozhi Lin, Yongquan Xue, Guanwen Fang +3

The coevolution between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies has been proposed for more than a decade, albeit with little direct evidence about black hole accre…

astro-ph.GA2021

Morphological Transformation and Star Formation Quenching of Massive Galaxies at 0.5 < z < 2.5 in 3D-HST/CANDELS

Shuang Liu, Yizhou Gu, Qirong Yuan +4

To figure out the effect of stellar mass and local environment on morphological transformation and star formation quenching in galaxies, we use the massive ($M_* \geq 10^{10} M_{\o…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 19 cited

The effect of environment on star formation activity and morphology at 0.5 < z < 2.5 in CANDELS

Yizhou Gu, Guanwen Fang, Qirong Yuan +2

To explore the effect of environment on star-formation and morphological transformation of high-redshift galaxies, we present a robust estimation of localized galaxy overdensity us…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 10 cited

The effect of the morphological quenching mechanism on star formation activity at 0.5 < z < 1.5 in 3D-HST/CANDELS

Shiying Lu, Guanwen Fang, Yizhou Gu +3

Several mechanisms for the transformation of blue star-forming to red quiescent galaxies have been proposed, and the green valley (GV) galaxies amid them are widely accepted in a t…