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Light curves serve as a valuable source of information on stellar formation and evolution. With the rapid advancement of machine learning techniques, it can be effectively processed to extract astronomical patterns and information. In this…

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Vast amounts of astronomical photometric data are generated from various projects, requiring significant effort to identify variable stars and other object classes. In light of this, a general, widely applicable classification framework…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-23 Kaiming Cui , D. J. Armstrong , Fabo Feng

We present ORACLE, the first hierarchical deep-learning model for real-time, context-aware classification of transient and variable astrophysical phenomena. ORACLE is a recurrent neural network with Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs), and has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-04 Ved G. Shah , Alex Gagliano , Konstantin Malanchev , Gautham Narayan , Alex I. Malz , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

We present a novel approach for classifying stars as binary or exoplanet using deep learning techniques. Our method utilizes feature extraction, wavelet transformation, and a neural network on the light curves of stars to achieve…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-22 Aman Kumar , Sarvesh Gharat

In this work, we propose a novel ensemble of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) that considers the multiband and non-uniform cadence without having to compute complex features. Our proposed model consists of an ensemble of RNNs, which do not…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-27 I. Becker , P. Protopapas , M. Catelan , K. Pichara

In this paper, we present a deep learning system approach to estimating luminosity, effective temperature, and surface gravity of O-type stars using the optical region of the stellar spectra. In previous work, we compare a set of machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-31 Miguel Flores R. , Luis J. Corral , Celia R. Fierro-Santillán , Silvana G. Navarro

Photometric variability detection is often considered as a hypothesis testing problem: an object is variable if the null-hypothesis that its brightness is constant can be ruled out given the measurements and their uncertainties. Uncorrected…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 Ilya N. Pashchenko , Kirill V. Sokolovsky , Panagiotis Gavras

In the last couple of decades, tremendous progress has been achieved in developing robotic telescopes and, as a result, sky surveys (both terrestrial and space) have become the source of a substantial amount of new observational data. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Michal Čokina , Viera Maslej-Krešňáková , Peter Butka , Štefan Parimucha

A significant degree of misclassification of variable stars through the application of machine learning methods to survey data motivates a search for more reliable and accurate machine learning procedures, especially in light of the very…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-18 Refilwe Kgoadi , Chris Engelbrecht , Ian Whittingham , Andrew Tkachenko

The advent of wide-field sky surveys has led to the growth of transient and variable source discoveries. The data deluge produced by these surveys has necessitated the use of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) algorithms to sift…

We propose a new sequential classification model for astronomical objects based on a recurrent convolutional neural network (RCNN) which uses sequences of images as inputs. This approach avoids the computation of light curves or difference…

In recent years the amount of publicly available astronomical data has increased exponentially, with a remarkable example being large scale multiepoch photometric surveys. This wealth of data poses challenges to the classical methodologies…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-12 N. Monsalves , M. Jaque Arancibia , A. Bayo , P. Sánchez-Sáez , R. Angeloni , G Damke , J. Segura Van de Perre

We present an image classification algorithm using deep learning convolutional neural network architecture, which classifies the morphologies of eclipsing binary systems based on their light curves. The algorithm trains the machine with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-06 Burak Ulas

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will complete its survey in 2022 and produce terabytes of imaging data each night. To work with this massive onset of data, automated algorithms to classify astronomical light curves are crucial. Here, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-12 Tatiana Gabruseva , Sergey Zlobin , Peter Wang

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

In this project we use data obtained by Zwicky Transient Facility to develop and test a neural-network-based, multiband classification algorithm to classify periodic variable stars (i.e. pulsating variable stars and eclipsing binaries). The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Tamás Szklenár , Attila Bódi , Róbert Szabó

In the new era of very large telescopes, where data is crucial to expand scientific knowledge, we have witnessed many deep learning applications for the automatic classification of lightcurves. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are one of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-08 C. Donoso-Oliva , G. Cabrera-Vives , P. Protopapas , R. Carrasco-Davis , P. A. Estevez

While convolutional neural networks have gained impressive success recently in solving structured prediction problems such as semantic segmentation, it remains a challenge to differentiate individual object instances in the scene. Instance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Mengye Ren , Richard S. Zemel

In the era of large all-sky surveys, there will be a need for rapid, automatic classifications of newly discovered transient objects. Our focus here is the classification of supernovae (SNe). We consider random forest machine learning…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-28 Jonathan Markel , Amanda J. Bayless

The immense amount of time series data produced by astronomical surveys has called for the use of machine learning algorithms to discover and classify several million celestial sources. In the case of variable stars, supervised learning…

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