English
Related papers

Related papers: Data Mining and Machine Learning in Astronomy

200 papers

A Virtual Observatory (VO) will enable transparent and efficient access, search, retrieval, and visualization of data across multiple data repositories, which are generally heterogeneous and distributed. Aspects of data mining that apply to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kirk D. Borne

In recent decades, artificial intelligence (AI) including machine learning (ML) have become vital for space missions enabling rapid data processing, advanced pattern recognition, and enhanced insight extraction. These tools are especially…

Astronomy and astrophysics are witnessing dramatic increases in data volume as detectors, telescopes and computers become ever more powerful. During the last decade, sky surveys across the electromagnetic spectrum have collected hundreds of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Jacob T. VanderPlas , Andrew J. Connolly , Zeljko Ivezic , Alex Gray

We present a review of data types and statistical methods often encountered in astronomy. The aim is to provide an introduction to statistical applications in astronomy for statisticians and computer scientists. We highlight the complex,…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-10-23 James P. Long , Rafael S. de Souza

With the rapid advancements in observational technologies and the widespread implementation of large-scale sky surveys, diverse electromagnetic wave data (e.g., optical and infrared) and non-electromagnetic wave data (e.g., gravitational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Wujun Shao , Dongwei Fan , Chenzhou Cui , Yunfei Xu , Shirui Wei , Xin Lyu

In cosmology, the analysis of observational evidence is very important to test theoretical models of the Universe. Artificial neural networks are powerful and versatile computational tools for data modelling and are recently being…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-15 Juan de Dios Rojas Olvera , Isidro Gómez-Vargas , J. Alberto Vázquez

Data science, and machine learning in particular, is rapidly transforming the scientific and industrial landscapes. The aerospace industry is poised to capitalize on big data and machine learning, which excels at solving the types of…

Clustering is an effective tool for astronomical spectral analysis, to mine clustering patterns among data. With the implementation of large sky surveys, many clustering methods have been applied to tackle spectroscopic and photometric data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-19 Haifeng Yang , Chenhui Shi , Jianghui Cai , Lichan Zhou , Yuqing Yang , Xujun Zhao , Yanting He , Jing Hao

We present a user-friendly, but powerful interface for the data mining of scientific repositories. We present the tool in use with actual astronomy data and show how it may be used to achieve many different types of powerful semantic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 Brian Thomas , Edward Shaya

Classification is a popular task in the field of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and it happens when outputs are categorical variables. There are a wide variety of models that attempts to draw some conclusions from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi

Astronomy is undergoing through a methodological revolution triggered by an unprecedented wealth of complex and accurate data. The new panchromatic, synoptic sky surveys require advanced tools for discovering patterns and trends hidden…

Recent improvements in data collection volume from planetary and space physics missions have allowed the application of novel data science techniques. The Cassini mission for example collected over 600 gigabytes of scientific data from 2004…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 A. R. Azari , J. W. Lockhart , M. W. Liemohn , X. Jia

Large-scale photometric surveys are revolutionizing astronomy by delivering unprecedented amounts of data. The rich data sets from missions such as the NASA Kepler and TESS satellites, and the upcoming ESA PLATO mission, are a treasure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jeroen Audenaert

Astroinformatics is a new impact area in the world of astronomy, occasionally called the final frontier, where several astrophysicists, statisticians and computer scientists work together to tackle various data intensive astronomical…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-04-30 Snehanshu Saha , Surbhi Agrawal , Manikandan. R , Kakoli Bora , Swati Routh , Anand Narasimhamurthy

The days of the lone astronomer with his optical telescope and photographic plates are long gone: Astronomy in 2025 will not only be multi-wavelength, but multi-messenger, and dominated by huge data sets and matching data rates. Catalogues…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Michael Garrett

In recent years, machine learning (ML) algorithms have been successfully employed in Astronomy for analyzing and interpreting the data collected from various surveys. The need for new robust and efficient data analysis tools in Astronomy is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-12 Muhammad Haider Abbas

High-quality, usable, and effective software is essential for supporting astronomers in the discovery-focused tasks of data analysis and visualisation. As the volume, and perhaps more crucially, the velocity of astronomical data grows, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-01 Christopher J. Fluke , Sarah E. Hegarty , Clare O. -M. MacMahon

Methods based on machine learning have recently made substantial inroads in many corners of cosmology. Through this process, new computational tools, new perspectives on data collection, model development, analysis, and discovery, as well…

The analysis and an efficient scientific exploration of the Digital Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (DPOSS) represents a major technical challenge. The input data set consists of 3 Terabytes of pixel information, and contains a few billion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. G. Djorgovski , R. R. de Carvalho , S. C. Odewahn , R. R. Gal , J. Roden , P. Stolorz , A. Gray

The rapid advancement of observational capabilities in astronomy has led to an exponential growth in the volume of light curve (LC) data, creating both opportunities and challenges for time-domain astronomy. Traditional analytical methods…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Almat Akhmetali , Alisher Zhunuskanov , Aknur Sakan , Marat Zaidyn , Timur Namazbayev , Dana Turlykozhayeva , Nurzhan Ussipov