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Supervised Ensemble Classification of Kepler Variable Stars

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2016-04-12 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

Variable star analysis and classification is an important task in the understanding of stellar features and processes. While historically classifications have been done manually by highly skilled experts, the recent and rapid expansion in the quantity and quality of data has demanded new techniques, most notably automatic classification through supervised machine learning. We present an expansion of existing work on the field by analyzing variable stars in the {\em Kepler} field using an ensemble approach, combining multiple characterization and classification techniques to produce improved classification rates. Classifications for each of the roughly 150,000 stars observed by {\em Kepler} are produced separating the stars into one of 14 variable star classes.

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@article{arxiv.1604.01355,
  title  = {Supervised Ensemble Classification of Kepler Variable Stars},
  author = {Gideon Bass and Kirk Borne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.01355},
  year   = {2016}
}

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18 pages, 22 figures

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