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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will provide us with a unique opportunity to observe the early inspiral phase of supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) in the mass range of $10^5-10^6\,M_{\odot}$, that lasts for several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-09 Sayantani Datta

A spectral principal component analysis (SPCA) of a sample of 87 PG QSOs at $z < 0.5$ is presented for their mid-infrared spectra from Spitzer Space Telescope. We have derived the first five eigenspectra, which account for 85.2\% of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 Wei-Hao Bian , Zhi-Cheng He , Richard Green , Yong Shi , Xue Ge , Wen-Shuai Liu

The mid-infrared spectra of ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) contain a variety of spectral features that can be used as diagnostics to characterise the spectra. However, such diagnostics are biased by our prior prejudices on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Peter D Hurley , Seb Oliver , Duncan Farrah , Lingyu Wang , Andreas Efstathiou

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) currently provides by far the largest homogeneous sample of intermediate signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) optical spectra of galaxies and quasars. The fully automated SDSS spectroscopic reduction pipeline has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Vivienne Wild , Paul C. Hewett

Singular value decomposition (SVD) based principal component analysis (PCA) breaks down in the high-dimensional and limited sample size regime below a certain critical eigen-SNR that depends on the dimensionality of the system and the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Arvind Prasadan , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Debashis Paul

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is one of the most commonly used statistical methods for data exploration, and for dimensionality reduction wherein the first few principal components account for an appreciable proportion of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-11 Caren Marzban , Ulvi Yurtsever , Michael Richman

We present the results of a study to optimize the principal component analysis (PCA) algorithm for planet detection, a new algorithm complementing ADI and LOCI for increasing the contrast achievable next to a bright star. The stellar PSF is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 T. Meshkat , M. Kenworthy , S. P. Quanz , A. Amara

We apply Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to study the variability of the X-ray continuum in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7469. The PCA technique is used to separate out linear components contributing to variability between multiple datasets;…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Blustin , S. V. Fuerst , G. Branduardi-Raymont , M. J. Page , E. Behar , J. S. Kaastra

The luminosity changes of most types of variable stars are correlated in the different wavelengths, and these correlations may be exploited for several purposes: for variability detection, for distinction of microvariability from noise, for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Maria Süveges , Paul Bartholdi , Andrew Becker , Zeljko Ivezic , Mathias Beck , Laurent Eyer

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is an important tool of dimension reduction especially when the dimension (or the number of variables) is very high. Asymptotic studies where the sample size is fixed, and the dimension grows [i.e., High…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-20 Sungkyu Jung , J. S. Marron

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is applied to a variety of blazars to examine X-ray spectral variability. Data from nine different objects are analysed in two ways: long-term, which examines variability trends across years or decades,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Dennis Gallant , Luigi C. Gallo , Michael L. Parker

A non-parametric smoothing method is presented that reduces noise in multi-wavelength imaging data sets. Using Principle Component Analysis (hereafter PCA) to associate pixels according to their $ugriz$-band colors, smoothing is done over…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 James Pizagno

(Abridged) Motivated by forthcoming data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we present a theoretical framework that can be used to interpret Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of disk galaxy properties. We use the formalism introduced by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Conti , Barbara S. Ryden , David H. Weinberg

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a method for estimating a subspace given noisy samples. It is useful in a variety of problems ranging from dimensionality reduction to anomaly detection and the visualization of high dimensional data.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-14 David Hong , Laura Balzano , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Principal components analysis (PCA) is a classical method for the reduction of dimensionality of data in the form of n observations (or cases) of a vector with p variables. For a simple model of factor analysis type, it is proved that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-01-29 Iain M Johnstone , Arthur Yu Lu

We report high-resolution spectroscopy of 125 field stars previously observed as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its program for Galactic studies, the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE). These…

We use principal component analysis (PCA) to estimate stellar masses, mean stellar ages, star formation histories (SFHs), dust extinctions and stellar velocity dispersions for ~290,000 galaxies with stellar masses greater than $10^{11}Msun…

In the last decade we have seen an enormous increase in the size and quality of spectroscopic galaxy surveys, both at low and high redshift. New statistical techniques to analyse large portions of galaxy spectra are now finding favour over…

Principal component analysis (PCA) is often used for analyzing data in the most diverse areas. In this work, we report an integrated approach to several theoretical and practical aspects of PCA. We start by providing, in an intuitive and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Felipe L. Gewers , Gustavo R. Ferreira , Henrique F. de Arruda , Filipi N. Silva , Cesar H. Comin , Diego R. Amancio , Luciano da F. Costa

We use Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to analyze a volume-limited sample from the SDSS and explore how cosmic web environments affect the interrelations between various galaxy properties, such as $(u-r)$ colour, stellar mass, specific…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-24 Anindita Nandi , Biswajit Pandey