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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 stellar evolution theory of massive stars remains uncalibrated with high-precision photometric observational data mainly due to a small number of luminous stars that are monitored from space. Automated all-sky surveys have revealed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Jaan Laur , Indrek Kolka , Tõnis Eenmäe , Taavi Tuvikene , Laurits Leedjärv

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

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

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

The fast classification of new variable stars is an important step in making them available for further research. Selection of science targets from large databases is much more efficient if they have been classified first. Defining the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Debosscher , L. M. Sarro , C. Aerts , J. Cuypers , B. Vandenbussche , R. Garrido , E. Solano

We investigate the performance of some common machine learning techniques in identifying BHB stars from photometric data. To train the machine learning algorithms, we use previously published spectroscopic identifications of BHB stars from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Kester W. Smith , Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones , Rainer J. Klement , Xiang-Xiang Xue

The imminent advent of very large-scale optical sky surveys, such as Euclid and LSST, makes it important to find efficient ways of discovering rare objects such as strong gravitational lens systems, where a background object is multiply…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 P. Hartley , R. Flamary , N. Jackson , A. S. Tagore , R. B. Metcalf

We tested 14 very different classification algorithms (random forest, gradient boosting machines, SVM - linear, polynomial, and RBF - 1-hidden-layer neural nets, extreme learning machines, k-nearest neighbors and a bagging of knn, naive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Jacques Wainer

Gravitational microlensing of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) provides a unique opportunity to probe compact dark matter and small-scale structures in the Universe. However, identifying such microlensed GRBs within large data sets is a significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-20 Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi , Zeinab Kalantari , Sohrab Rahvar , Alaa Ibrahim

We present a new approach to obtaining photometric redshifts using a kernel learning technique called Support Vector Machines (SVMs). Unlike traditional spectral energy distribution fitting, this technique requires a large and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yogesh Wadadekar

Automatic source detection and classification tools based on machine learning (ML) algorithms are growing in popularity due to their efficiency when dealing with large amounts of data simultaneously and their ability to work in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-12 A. Solarz , M. Bilicki , A. Pollo

While previous works have shown that machine learning (ML) can improve the prediction accuracy of coarse-grid climate models, these ML-augmented methods are more vulnerable to irregular inputs than the traditional physics-based models they…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Clayton Sanford , Anna Kwa , Oliver Watt-Meyer , Spencer Clark , Noah Brenowitz , Jeremy McGibbon , Christopher Bretherton

This paper pioneers the use of neural networks to provide a fast and automatic way to classify lightcurves in massive photometric datasets. As an example, we provide a working neural network that can distinguish microlensing lightcurves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vasily Belokurov , N. Wyn Evans , Yann Le Du

Accurate diagnosis of power transformer faults is essential for ensuring the stability and safety of electrical power systems. This study presents a comparative analysis of conventional machine learning (ML) algorithms and deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Bhuvan Saravanan , Pasanth Kumar M D , Aarnesh Vengateson

The development of synoptic sky surveys has led to a massive amount of data for which resources needed for analysis are beyond human capabilities. To process this information and to extract all possible knowledge, machine learning…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Isadora Nun , Karim Pichara , Pavlos Protopapas , Dae-Won Kim

Automated photometric supernova classification has become an active area of research in recent years in light of current and upcoming imaging surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, given that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-08 Michelle Lochner , Jason D. McEwen , Hiranya V. Peiris , Ofer Lahav , Max K. Winter

Current synoptic sky surveys monitor large areas of the sky to find variable and transient astronomical sources. As the number of detections per night at a single telescope easily exceeds several thousand, current detection pipelines make…

Upcoming synoptic surveys are set to generate an unprecedented amount of data. This requires an automatic framework that can quickly and efficiently provide classification labels for several new object classification challenges. Using data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Zafiirah Hosenie , Robert Lyon , Benjamin Stappers , Arrykrishna Mootoovaloo

Attitude is one of the crucial parameters for space objects and plays a vital role in collision prediction and debris removal. Analyzing light curves to determine attitude is the most commonly used method. In photometric observations,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-03 Hui Li , Rong-Wang Li , Peng Shu , Yu-Qiang Li