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We have developed a web tool to perform Principal Component Analysis (PCA, Murtagh & Heck 1987; Kendall 1980) onto spectral data. The method is especially designed to perform spectral classification of galaxies from a sample of input…

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In order to extract cosmological information from observations of the millimeter and submillimeter sky, foreground components must first be removed to produce an estimate of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We developed a…

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We aim at searching for exoplanets on the whole ESO/VLT-SPHERE archive with improved and unsupervised data analysis algorithm that could allow to detect massive giant planets at 5 au. To prepare, test and optimize our approach, we gathered…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 A. Chomez , A. -M. Lagrange , P. Delorme , M. Langlois , G. Chauvin , O. Flasseur , J. Dallant , F. Philipot , S. Bergeon , D. Albert , N. Meunier , P. Rubini

Spectroscopic observations of exoplanet atmospheres can reveal the chemical composition, temperature, cloud properties, and (potentially) the habitability of these distant worlds. The inference of such properties is generally enabled by…

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Principal component analysis (PCA) is a commonly used pattern analysis method that maps high-dimensional data into a lower-dimensional space maximizing the data variance, that results in the promotion of separability of data. Inspired by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-20 Xiaoqiang Hua , Yusuke Ono , Linyu Peng , Yuting Xu

Static structure models, which map mass-radius constraints to bulk planet composition, are frequently used to categorise exoplanets due to their computational efficiency and the high-level insight they offer into planetary properties.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Harrison Nicholls , Oliver Shorttle , Tim Lichtenberg , Flavia Pascal

With the development of ever-improving telescopes capable of observing exoplanet atmospheres in greater detail and number, there is a growing demand for enhanced 3D climate models to support and help interpret observational data from space…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Alexander Plaschzug , Amit Reza , Ludmila Carone , Sebastian Gernjak , Christiane Helling

Efficient representations of data are essential for processing, exploration, and human understanding, and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is one of the most common dimensionality reduction techniques used for the analysis of large,…

Computation · Statistics 2023-11-06 Olga Dorabiala , Aleksandr Aravkin , J. Nathan Kutz

Today's most detailed characterization of exoplanet atmospheres is accessible via transit spectroscopy (TS). Detecting transiting exoplanets only yields their size, and it is thus standard to measure a planet's mass before moving towards…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Julien de Wit , Sara Seager , Prajwal Niraula

Machine Learning algorithms are good tools for both classification and prediction purposes. These algorithms can further be used for scientific discoveries from the enormous data being collected in our era. We present ways of discovering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-26 Shraddha Surana , Yogesh Wadadekar , Divya Oberoi

The environment plays a critical role in galaxy evolution, with galaxy clusters and their infall regions offering diverse conditions that shape galaxies before they enter the dense cluster core, a process known as ``pre-processing''.…

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Aerosol particles play an important role in the climate system by absorbing and scattering radiation and influencing cloud properties. They are also one of the biggest sources of uncertainty for climate modeling. Many climate models do not…

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Unsupervised learning algorithms are beginning to achieve accuracies comparable to their supervised counterparts on benchmark computer vision tasks, but their utility for practical applications has not yet been demonstrated. In this work,…

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We develop a new method for analytical inversion of binned exoplanet transit spectra and for retrieval of planet parameters. The method has a geometrical interpretation and treats each observed spectrum as a single vector $\vec r$ in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Konstantin T. Matchev , Katia Matcheva , Alexander Roman

Many post-processing algorithms have been developed in order to better separate the signal of a companion from the bright light of the host star, but the effect of such algorithms on the shape of exoplanet spectra extracted from integral…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Evert Nasedkin , Paul Mollière , Jason Wang , Faustine Cantalloube , Laura Kreidberg , Laurent Pueyo , Tomas Stolker , Arthur Vigan

Robust generalization under climate change remains a major challenge for machine learning applications in climate science. Most existing approaches struggle to extrapolate beyond the climate they were trained on, leading to a strong…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Shuchang Liu , Paul A. O'Gorman

Linear latent variable models such as principal component analysis (PCA), independent component analysis (ICA), canonical correlation analysis (CCA), and factor analysis (FA) identify latent directions (or loadings) either ordered or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-13 Jesse Stevens , Daniel N. Wilke , Itumeleng Setshedi

The Ariel Space Mission aims to observe a diverse sample of exoplanet atmospheres across a wide wavelength range of 0.5 to 7.8 microns. The observations are organized into four Tiers, with Tier 1 being a reconnaissance survey. This Tier is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-14 Andrea Bocchieri , Lorenzo V. Mugnai , Enzo Pascale , Quentin Changeat , Giovanna Tinetti

The next generation of telescopes will yield a substantial increase in the availability of high-resolution spectroscopic data for thousands of exoplanets. The sheer volume of data and number of planets to be analyzed greatly motivate the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Roy T. Forestano , Konstantin T. Matchev , Katia Matcheva , Eyup B. Unlu