Star-forming clump detection in nearby galaxies using Faster R-CNN and ugrizy imaging data from CLAUDS and HSC-SSP
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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Giant Star-forming Clumps (GSFCs) are kpc-scale regions of enhanced star-formation with stellar masses of 107 to 109 M⊙ that are commonly observed in high-redshift galaxies but are rarely detected in low-redshift (z ≲ 0.5) galaxy analogues. However, the availability of wide-field galaxy survey data makes it possible to identify potential star-forming clumps in large samples of low-redshift galaxies using object detection models that are based on Deep Learning (DL) techniques. We apply a novel DL-based object detection model to galaxies observed by the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Survey (HSC-SSP) and CFHT Large Area U-band Deep Survey (CLAUDS). Our model is based on the the Faster Region-Based Convolutional Neural Network (Faster R-CNN or FRCNN) object detection framework but expanded to process the six ugrizy filter band images simultaneously and identify not only clumps and their locations in the host galaxy but also additional contaminants. By adopting the zoobot foundation DL-model as a feature extraction backbone, we also demonstrate one of the first applications of zoobot in a downstream task for object detection. Our model achieves a detection completeness of ≳ 0.9 and purity of ≳ 0.8 which were validated on a large set of real galaxies into which simulated clumps were injected.
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| Authors | Jürgen Popp, Hugh Dickinson, S. Serjeant, L. Fortson, Tobias Géron, Brooke Simmons, Vihang Mehta |
| Journal | RAS Techniques and Instruments |
| Year | 2026 |
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10.1093/rasti/rzag051
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