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2025PASP..137f4101L - Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 137, part no 6, 4101 (2025/June-0)

Evaluating the Accuracy of Non-parametric Galaxy Morphological Indicator Measurements in the CSST Imaging Survey.

LUO Y., SHA A., REN J., ZHANG X., MENG X., LI N. and LIU F.S.

Abstract (from CDS):

The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) is China's upcoming next-generation ultraviolet and optical survey telescope, with imaging resolution capabilities comparable to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). In this study, we utilized a comprehensive sample of 3679 CSST realistic mock galaxies constructed from HST Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey/GOODS-North deep imaging observations, with stellar masses $\mathrm{log}\left({M}_{* }/{M}_{\odot }\right)\gt 9.0$ and redshifts z < 2. We evaluate the detection capabilities of CSST surveys and the accuracy in measuring the non-parametric morphological indicators (C, A, Gini, M20, AO, DO) of galaxies. Our findings show that in terms of galaxy detection capabilities, CSST's deep field surveys can achieve the same level as HST's deep field observations; however, in wide-field surveys, CSST exhibits a significant deficiency in detecting high-redshift, low-mass, low-surface-brightness galaxies. Regarding the measurement of galaxy morphology, CSST's deep field surveys achieve high accuracy across all indicators except for the asymmetry indicator (A), whereas its wide-field surveys suffer from significant systematic biases. We thus provide simple correction functions to adjust the non-parametric morphological indicators obtained from CSST's wide-field and deep-field observations, thereby aligning CSST measurements with those from HST. This adjustment enables the direct application of non-parametric morphological classification methods originally developed for HST data to galaxies observed by CSST.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP).

Journal keyword(s): Galaxy structure - Galaxies - Surveys

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