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The CoRoT (Convection, Rotation, and planetary Transits) mission still holds a large trove of high-quality, underused light curves with excellent signal-to-noise and continuous coverage. This paper, the first in a series, identifies and…

Observational astronomy has undergone a significant transformation driven by large-scale surveys, such as the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) Survey, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and the Gaia…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Bradley D. Hutchinson , Catherine A. Pilachowski , Christian I. Johnson

Classifying variable stars is crucial for advancing our understanding of stellar evolution and dynamics. As large-scale surveys generate increasing volumes of light curve data, the demand for automated and reliable classification techniques…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Almat Akhmetali , Alisher Zhunuskanov , Timur Namazbayev , Marat Zaidyn , Aknur Sakan , Dana Turlykozhayeva , Nurzhan Ussipov

The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) provides long baseline (${\sim}4$ yrs) $V-$band light curves for sources brighter than V$\lesssim17$ mag across the whole sky. We produced V-band light curves for a total of ${\sim}61.5$…

Photometry of stars from the K2 extension of NASA's Kepler mission is afflicted by systematic effects caused by small (few-pixel) drifts in the telescope pointing and other spacecraft issues. We present a method for searching K2 light…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Benjamin T. Montet , David W. Hogg , Timothy D. Morton , Dun Wang , Bernhard Schölkopf

The K2 mission is targeting large numbers of nearby (d<100 pc) GKM dwarfs selected from the SUPERBLINK proper motion survey (mu>40 mas yr^-1, V<20). Additionally, the mission is targeting low-mass, high proper motion stars associated with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Dicy Ann Saylor , Sebastien Lépine , Ian Crossfield , Erik Petigura

We have used deep V-band and JHKs-band observations to investigate variability and stellar populations near the Galactic plane in Centaurus, and compared the observations with the Galactic model of Besancon. By applying image subtraction…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-12 P. Pietrukowicz , D. Minniti , J. Alonso-Garcia , M. Hempel

We present an automatic, fast, accurate and robust method of classifying astronomical objects. The Self Organizing Map (SOM) as an unsupervised Artificial Neural Network (ANN) algorithm is used for classification of stellar spectra of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-08-03 Bazarghan Mahdi

Periodic variables illuminate the physical processes of stars throughout their lifetime. Wide-field surveys continue to increase our discovery rates of periodic variable stars. Automated approaches are essential to identify interesting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 H. S. Chan , V. Ashley Villar , S. H. Cheung , Shirley Ho , Anna J. G. O'Grady , Maria R. Drout , Mathieu Renzo

A Synchronous Photometry Data Extraction (SPDE) program, performing indiscriminate monitors of all stars appearing at the same field of view of astronomical image, is developed by integrating several Astropy affiliated packages to make full…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-14 Zhi-Bin Dai , Hao Zhou , Jin Cao

Context. We use the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) Fourth Data Release (DR4) to identify and classify H$\alpha$-excess point sources in the Southern Sky, combining photometric data from 12 S-PLUS filters with machine…

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

The Kepler K2 mission now makes it possible to find and study a wider variety of eclipsing binary stars than has been possible to-date, particularly long-period systems with narrow eclipses. Our aim is to characterise eclipsing binary stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 P. F. L. Maxted , R. J. Hutcheon

One of the main difficulties to analyze modern spectroscopic datasets is due to the large amount of data. For example, in atmospheric transmittance spectroscopy, the solar occultation channel (SO) of the NOMAD instrument onboard the ESA…

We examine the capacity to identify binary systems from astrometric deviations alone. We apply our analysis to the Gaia eDR3 and DR2 data, specifically the Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars. We show we must renormalize (R)UWE over the local…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Zephyr Penoyre , Vasily Belokurov , N. Wyn Evans

Monoceros R2 (Mon R2) is one of the closest large active star-forming regions. This extremely young and partially embedded region provides an excellent laboratory for studying star formation and the early evolution of young stellar objects…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-07 Sally D. Jiang , Lynne A. Hillenbrand

We present the second results from Citizen ASAS-SN, a citizen science project for the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) hosted on the Zooniverse platform. Citizen ASAS-SN tasks users with classifying variable stars based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-16 O. Kotrach , C. S. Kochanek , C. T. Christy , T. Jayasinghe , K. Z. Stanek , D. M. Rowan , J. L. Prieto , B. J. Shappee

The fundamental parameters of a low-mass star can potentially be determined from its photometry and astrometry. This is complicated by the fact that 10-20 percent of low-mass stars are predicted to be equal-mass binaries. These unresolved…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Zachary Way , Sébastien Lépine , Jonathan Gagné , Ilija Medan

We provide classifications for all 143 million non-repeat photometric objects in the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using decision trees trained on 477,068 objects with SDSS spectroscopic data. We demonstrate that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicholas M. Ball , Robert J. Brunner , Adam D. Myers , David Tcheng

We present VIVACE, the VIrac VAriable Classification Ensemble, a catalogue of variable stars extracted from an automated classification pipeline for the Vista Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (VVV) infrared survey of the Galactic bar/bulge…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 Thomas A. Molnar , Jason L. Sanders , Leigh C. Smith , Vasily Belokurov , Philip Lucas , Dante Minniti