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We present a methodology to discover outliers in catalogs of periodic light-curves. We use cross-correlation as measure of ``similarity'' between two individual light-curves and then classify light-curves with lowest average ``similarity''…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Protopapas , J. M. Giammarco , L. Faccioli , M. F. Struble , R. Dave , C. Alcock

AI-FLARES (Artificial Intelligence for the Analysis of Solar Flares Data) is a research project funded by the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and by the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica within the framework of the ``Attivit\`a di Studio per la…

In modern astrophysics, the machine learning has increasingly gained more popularity with its incredibly powerful ability to make predictions or calculated suggestions for large amounts of data. We describe an application of the supervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-26 Yu Bai , JiFeng Liu , Song Wang , Fan Yang

We report a one-second-cadence wide-field survey for M-dwarf flares using the Tomo-e Gozen camera mounted on the Kiso Schmidt telescope. We detect 22 flares from M3-M5 dwarfs with rise times and amplitudes ranging from $5\, \mathrm{sec}…

Lensed quasars and supernovae can be used to study galaxies' gravitational potential and measure cosmological parameters. The typical image separation of objects lensed by galaxies is of the order of 0.5". Therefore, finding the ones with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Ofer M. Springer , Eran O. Ofek

Stellar rotation plays a key role in stellar activity. The rotation period could be detected through light curve variations caused by starspots. Kepler provides two types of light curves, one is the Pre-search Data Conditioning (PDC) light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Kaiming Cui , Jifeng Liu , Shuhong Yang , Qing Gao , Huiqin Yang , Roberto Soria , Lin He , Song Wang , Yu Bai , Fan Yang

The efficient classification of different types of supernova is one of the most important problems for observational cosmology. However, spectroscopic confirmation of most objects in upcoming photometric surveys, such as the The Rubin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-17 Marcelo Vargas dos Santos , Miguel Quartin , Ribamar R. R. Reis

Identification of anomalous light curves within time-domain surveys is often challenging. In addition, with the growing number of wide-field surveys and the volume of data produced exceeding astronomers ability for manual evaluation,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Sara Webb , Michelle Lochner , Daniel Muthukrishna , Jeff Cooke , Chris Flynn , Ashish Mahabal , Simon Goode , Igor Andreoni , Tyler Pritchard , Timothy M. C. Abbott

We introduce a deep machine learning approach to studying quasar microlensing light curves for the first time by analyzing hundreds of thousands of simulated light curves with respect to the accretion disc size and temperature profile. Our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Georgios Vernardos , Grigorios Tsagkatakis

We present a novel automated methodology to detect and classify periodic variable stars in a large database of photometric time series. The methods are based on multivariate Bayesian statistics and use a multi-stage approach. We applied our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-27 J. Blomme , L. M. Sarro , F. T. O'Donovan , J. Debosscher , T. Brown , M. Lopez , P. Dubath , L. Rimoldini , D. Charbonneau , E. Dunham , G. Mandushev , D. R. Ciardi , J. De Ridder , C. Aerts

Longtime monitoring of gravitational lens systems is often done using telescopes and recording equipment with modest resolution. Still, it would be interesting to get as much information as possible from the measured lightcurves. From high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Hirv , T. Eenmäe , T. Liimets , L. J. Liivamägi , J. Pelt

Time-resolved databases with large spatial coverage are quickly becoming a standard tool for all types of astronomical studies. We report preliminary results from our search for stellar flares in the 2MASS calibration fields. A sample of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 James R. A. Davenport , Andrew C. Becker , Suzanne L. Hawley , Adam F. Kowalski , Branimir Sesar , Roc M. Cutri

We present two main results, based on the models and the statistical analyses of 1672 U-band flares. We also discuss the behaviours of the white-light flares. In addition, the parameters of the flares detected from two years of observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. A. Dal

Clustering algorithms are often used to find subpopulations in exploratory data analysis workflows. Not only the clusters themselves, but also their shape can represent meaningful subpopulations. In this paper, we present FLASC, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 D. M. Bot , J. Peeters , J. Liesenborgs , J. Aerts

Theories of stellar convective core overshoot can be examined through analysis of pulsating stars. Better accuracy can be achieved by obtaining external constraints such as those provided by observing pulsating stars in eclipsing binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Padraic Odesse , Catherine Lovekin

Solar flares are the most explosive phenomena in the solar system and the main trigger of the events' chain that starts from Coronal Mass Ejections and leads to geomagnetic storms with possible impacts on the infrastructures at Earth.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Chiara Curletto , Paolo Massa , Valeria Tagliafico , Cristina Campi , Federico Benvenuto , Michele Piana , Andrea Tacchino

Whilst the most dynamic solar active regions (ARs) are known to flare frequently, predicting the occurrence of individual flares and their magnitude, is very much a developing field with strong potentials for machine learning applications.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 M. B. Korsos , R. Erdelyi , J. Liu , H. Morgan

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

Over the past few decades, many applications of physics-based simulations and data-driven techniques (including machine learning and deep learning) have emerged to analyze and predict solar flares. These approaches are pivotal in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 Anli Ji , Berkay Aydin