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The use of machine learning is becoming ubiquitous in astronomy, but remains rare in the study of the atmospheres of exoplanets. Given the spectrum of an exoplanetary atmosphere, a multi-parameter space is swept through in real time to find…

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The XMM identification programme (XID) is accumulating Optical/IR images and spectra to identify thousands of XMM sources. The XID Database is the main repository of this data and permits easy selection and correlation of XMM X-ray and UV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Houri Ziaeepour , Simon Rosen

We present an extension to our XMM-Newton X-ray source catalogue of M 31, containing 39 newly found sources. In order to classify and identify more of the sources we search for X-ray time variability in XMM-Newton archival data of the M 31…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Stiele , W. Pietsch , F. Haberl , M. Freyberg

We present a systematic search for variability among the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) X-ray sources. We generated lightcurves for about 30000 X-ray point sources detected sufficiently high above background. For our variability study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Fuhrmeister , J. H. M. M. Schmitt

Objective: Systematic reviews of scholarly documents often provide complete and exhaustive summaries of literature relevant to a research question. However, well-done systematic reviews are expensive, time-demanding, and labor-intensive.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiaoxiao Li , Rabah Al-Zaidy , Amy Zhang , Stefan Baral , Le Bao , C. Lee Giles

We present a detailed analysis of the stellar content of the current version of the XMM-Newton slew survey (XMMSL2). Since stars emit only a small fraction of their total luminosity in the X-ray band, the stellar XMMSL2 sources ought to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 S. Freund , J. Robrade , C. Schneider , J. H. M. M. Schmitt

Using archival X-ray data from the second XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue, we present comparative analysis of the overall population of X-ray sources in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. We see a difference between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-16 Andrew J. Gosling , Sean A. Farrell , Natalie A. Webb , Jari J. E. Kajava

We present a collection of $\sim10,000$ X-ray sources from the 4th XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalog (4XMM-DR13) with literature-verified classifications and multi-wavelength (MW) counterparts. We describe the process by which MW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-15 Yichao Lin , Hui Yang , Jeremy Hare , Igor Volkov , Oleg Kargaltsev

Aims. Construction of a new quasar candidate catalog from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey 2 (RCS-2), identified solely from photometric information using an automated algorithm suitable for large surveys. The algorithm performance is tested…

The Survey Science Centre of the XMM-Newton satellite released the first incremental version of the 2XMM catalogue in August 2008 . With more than 220,000 X-ray sources, the 2XMMi was at that time the largest catalogue of X-ray sources ever…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 F. -X. Pineau , C. Motch , F. Carrera , R. Della Ceca , S. Derriere , L. Michel , A. Schwope , M. G. Watson

Robust fast methods to classify variable light curves in large sky surveys are becoming increasingly important. While it is relatively straightforward to identify common periodic stars and particular transient events (supernovae, novae,…

To assist in the development of machine learning methods for automated classification of spectroscopic data, we have generated a universal synthetic dataset that can be used for model validation. This dataset contains artificial spectra…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Jan Schuetzke , Nathan J. Szymanski , Markus Reischl

In today's era, a tremendous amount of data is generated by different observatories and manual classification of data is something which is practically impossible. Hence, to classify and categorize the objects there are multiple machine and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-03 Sarvesh Gharat , Bhaskar Bose

Deep anomaly detection models using a supervised mode of learning usually work under a closed set assumption and suffer from overfitting to previously seen rare anomalies at training, which hinders their applicability in a real scenario. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Behzad Bozorgtabar , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Guillaume Vray , Jean-Philippe Thiran

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

The classification of variable objects provides insight into a wide variety of astrophysics ranging from stellar interiors to galactic nuclei. The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) provides time series observations that record the variability…

The need for labeled data is among the most common and well-known practical obstacles to deploying deep learning algorithms to solve real-world problems. The current generation of learning algorithms requires a large volume of data labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Aaron Reite , Scott Kangas , Zackery Steck , Steven Goley , Jonathan Von Stroh , Steven Forsyth

Automatic classification of trees using remotely sensed data has been a dream of many scientists and land use managers. Recently, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has been expected to be an easy-to-use, cost-effective tool for remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Masanori Onishi , Takeshi Ise

Random Forests (RFs) are strong machine learning tools for classification and regression. However, they remain supervised algorithms, and no extension of RFs to the one-class setting has been proposed, except for techniques based on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-22 Nicolas Goix , Nicolas Drougard , Romain Brault , Maël Chiapino

The XMM-Newton Serendipitous Ultraviolet Source Survey (XMM-SUSS) is a catalogue of ultraviolet (UV) sources detected serendipitously by the Optical Monitor (XMM-OM) on-board the XMM-Newton observatory. The catalogue contains…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. J. Page , C. Brindle , A. Talavera , M. Still , S. R. Rosen , V. N. Yershov , H. Ziaeepour , K. O. Mason , M. S. Cropper , A. A. Breeveld , N. Loiseau , R. Mignani , A. Smith , P. Murdin