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Other phylogenetic studies in astrophysics
2016 seems is a new milestone for astrocladistics: fifteen years after the beginning of this adventure, and ten years after the first papers were published, other phylogenetic analyses, in which I am not involved, have been published. They use either Maximum Parsimony (cladistics) or Neighbour Joining: Cladistical Analysis of the Jovian Satellites, Holt et al […]
Multivariate Approaches to Classification in Extragalactic Astronomy
Posted by astroclad in Classification, General on December 18, 2015
This the title of our paper that makes a review of the tentative to base a (unsupervised) classification of galaxies on learning machine techniques : Multivariate Approaches to Classification in Extragalactic Astronomy Didier Fraix-Burnet, Marc Thuillard, Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2015, 2 (3) It is an Open Access publication (not […]
Why?
Posted by astroclad in Classification, Complexity, General on March 30, 2015
Why multivariate analyses are not more widespread in astrophysics, especially in the extragalactic domain? I have not really the answer (I have some ideas though…), but let me show some plots that should help convince (astro)physicists. Firstly, do you remember this conference help in 1990? This shows that the debate about the morphological classification of […]
Transforming the Hubble Tuning Fork into a Piano
Posted by astroclad in Classification, General on February 4, 2015
A Tuning Fork is a device used to tune musical instruments. It vibrates at a single frequency, it is a pure sound of a single note. The Hubble Diagram not only looks like a Tuning Fork, but is also sounds like it: morphology is a single note, a single parameter, and it is based on […]
Gamma Ray Bursts and Cladistics
Posted by astroclad in Classification, General on July 25, 2013
Another kind of astronomical objects has been successfully analyzed with maximum parsimony: Gamma Ray Bursts! These are still mysterious objects, extremely violent, that emit a lot of gamma-rays during tenths of a second to several seconds. Gamma-rays are very energetic electromagnetic radiation, more so than X-rays, UV and of course visible light. Gamma-ray detectors on […]
Astrocladistics and galaxies: a milestone
Astrocladistics has the power to renew our classification of galaxies. I have explained why this is necessary. But after more than 10 years of developments, where are we standing in this ambitious and long term goal? A first step has been made forward in our publication: A six-parameter space to describe galaxy diversification. Fraix-Burnet, D., […]
Progress Report
Today, I have finished the chapter called “Diversification” which is fundamental to Astrocladistics since it explains why such a phylogenetic tool can be applied to galaxies (and beyond). With already completed chapters “Classification” and “Cladistics”, I have given all the concepts necessary to understand what is behind Astrocladistics. The next step is to go into […]
Welcome!
Astrocladistics is about cladistics in astrophysics, or classification of complex astrophysical objects in evolution, particularly galaxies. This is my research subject since 2001. This blog, created August 1st, 2011, is intended to be the place where I present and explain the concepts, the techniques, the results, the failures, of astrocladistics, in a different way than […]
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