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Automatic classification methods applied to sky surveys have revolutionized the astronomical target selection process. Most surveys generate a vast amount of time series, or \quotes{lightcurves}, that represent the brightness variability of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Nicolas Castro , Pavlos Protopapas , Karim Pichara

Ongoing or upcoming surveys such as Gaia, ZTF, or LSST will observe light-curves of billons or more astronomical sources. This presents new challenges for identifying interesting and important types of variability. Collecting a sufficient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Dae-Won Kim , Doyeob Yeo , Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones , Giyoung Lee

Machine learning techniques have been successfully used to classify variable stars on widely-studied astronomical surveys. These datasets have been available to astronomers long enough, thus allowing them to perform deep analysis over…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Patricio Benavente , Pavlos Protopapas , Karim Pichara

Recently, machine learning methods presented a viable solution for automated classification of image-based data in various research fields and business applications. Scientists require a fast and reliable solution to be able to handle the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-07 T. Szklenár , A. Bódi , D. Tarczay-Nehéz , K. Vida , G. Marton , Gy. Mező , A. Forró , R. Szabó

Within the last years, the classification of variable stars with Machine Learning has become a mainstream area of research. Recently, visualization of time series is attracting more attention in data science as a tool to visually help…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 Christian Pieringer , Karim Pichara , Márcio Catelán , Pavlos Protopapas

During the last ten years, a considerable amount of effort has been made to develop algorithms for automatic classification of variable stars. That has been primarily achieved by applying machine learning methods to photometric datasets…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Lucas Valenzuela , Karim Pichara

In the last years, automatic classification of variable stars has received substantial attention. Using machine learning techniques for this task has proven to be quite useful. Typically, machine learning classifiers used for this task…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Lukas Zorich , Karim Pichara , Pavlos Protopapas

During the last decade, a considerable amount of effort has been made to classify variable stars using different machine learning techniques. Typically, light curves are represented as vectors of statistical descriptors or features that are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Carlos Aguirre , Karim Pichara , Ignacio Becker

The success of automatic classification of variable stars strongly depends on the lightcurve representation. Usually, lightcurves are represented as a vector of many statistical descriptors designed by astronomers called features. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Cristóbal Mackenzie , Karim Pichara , Pavlos Protopapas

The immense amount of time series data produced by astronomical surveys has called for the use of machine learning algorithms to discover and classify several million celestial sources. In the case of variable stars, supervised learning…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 R. Pantoja , M. Catelan , K. Pichara , P. Protopapas

We aim to extend and test the classifiers presented in a previous work against an independent dataset. We complement the assessment of the validity of the classifiers by applying them to the set of OGLE light curves treated as variable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. M. Sarro , J. Debosscher , M. Lopez , C. Aerts

A significant degree of misclassification of variable stars through the application of machine learning methods to survey data motivates a search for more reliable and accurate machine learning procedures, especially in light of the very…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-18 Refilwe Kgoadi , Chris Engelbrecht , Ian Whittingham , Andrew Tkachenko

The advent of synoptic sky surveys has spurred the development of techniques for real-time classification of astronomical sources in order to ensure timely follow-up with appropriate instruments. Previous work has focused on algorithm…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-18 Kitty K. Lo , Tara Murphy , Umaa Rebbapragada , Kiri Wagstaff

Variable stars play a very important role in our understanding of the Milky Way and the universe. In recent years, many survey projects have generated a large amount of photometric data, necessitating classifiers that can quickly identify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Xiao-Hui Xu , Qing-Feng Zhu , Xu-Zhi Li , Hang Zheng , Jin-Sheng Qiu

Variable stars play a key role in understanding the Milky Way and the universe. The era of astronomical big data presents new challenges for quick identification of interesting and important variable stars. Accurately estimating the periods…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Xiao-Hui Xu , Qing-Feng Zhu , Xu-Zhi Li , Bin Li , Hang Zheng , Jin-Sheng Qiu , Hai-Bin Zhao

We describe a methodology to classify periodic variable stars identified using photometric time-series measurements constructed from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) full-mission single-exposure Source Databases. This will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Frank J. Masci , Douglas I. Hoffman , Carl J. Grillmair , Roc M. Cutri

During the last decade, considerable effort has been made to perform automatic classification of variable stars using machine learning techniques. Traditionally, light curves are represented as a vector of descriptors or features used as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Ignacio Becker , Karim Pichara , Márcio Catelan , Pavlos Protopapas , Carlos Aguirre , Fatemeh Nikzat

Vast amounts of astronomical photometric data are generated from various projects, requiring significant effort to identify variable stars and other object classes. In light of this, a general, widely applicable classification framework…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-23 Kaiming Cui , D. J. Armstrong , Fabo Feng

Despite the great promise of machine-learning algorithms to classify and predict astrophysical parameters for the vast numbers of astrophysical sources and transients observed in large-scale surveys, the peculiarities of the training data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Joseph W. Richards , Dan L. Starr , Henrik Brink , Adam A. Miller , Joshua S. Bloom , Nathaniel R. Butler , J. Berian James , James P. Long , John Rice

Statistical pattern recognition methods have provided competitive solutions for variable star classification at a relatively low computational cost. In order to perform supervised classification, a set of features is proposed and used to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 M. F. Pérez-Ortiz , A. García-Varela , A. J. Quiroz , B. E. Sabogal , J. Hernández
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