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In this work, Machine Learning (ML) methods are used to efficiently identify the unassociated sources and the Blazar Candidate of Uncertain types (BCUs) in the Fermi-LAT Third Source Catalog (3FGL). The aims are twofold: 1) to distinguish…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-08 Hubing Xiao , Haitao Cao , Junhui Fan , Denise Costantin , Gaoyong Luo , Zhiyuan Pei

Modern time-domain surveys continuously monitor large swaths of the sky to look for astronomical variability. Astrophysical discovery in such data sets is complicated by the fact that detections of real transient and variable sources are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Henrik Brink , Joseph W. Richards , Dovi Poznanski , Joshua S. Bloom , John Rice , Sahand Negahban , Martin Wainwright

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques are increasingly used across astrophysics, enabled by the growing availability of data and improved acquisition methods. These approaches now support tasks from redshift estimation to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 E. Oukacha , Y. Becherini

The recently published fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope source catalog (4FGL) reports 5065 gamma-ray sources in terms of direct observational gamma-ray properties. Among the sources, the largest population is the Active Galactic Nuclei…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Shi-Ju Kang , Enze Li , Wujing Ou , Kerui Zhu , Jun-Hui Fan , Qingwen Wu , Yue Yin

This paper explores the application of machine learning methods for classifying astronomical sources using photometric data, including normal and emission line galaxies (ELGs; starforming, starburst, AGN, broad line), quasars, and stars. We…

Recent works have developed samples of blazars from among the Fermi-LAT unassociated sources via machine learning comparisons with known blazar samples. Continued analysis of these new blazars tests the predictions of the blazar sequence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-17 Stephen Kerby , Abraham D. Falcone

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

Classification is a popular task in the field of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and it happens when outputs are categorical variables. There are a wide variety of models that attempts to draw some conclusions from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi

New-generation radio telescopes like LOFAR are conducting extensive sky surveys, detecting millions of sources. To maximise the scientific value of these surveys, radio source components must be properly associated into physical sources…

Classification will be an important first step for upcoming surveys that will detect billions of new sources such as LSST and Euclid, as well as DESI, 4MOST and MOONS. The application of traditional methods of model fitting and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 Crispin Logan , Sotiria Fotopoulou

The growth of sky surveys and the large amount of stellar spectra in the current databases, has generated the necessity of developing new methods to estimate atmospheric parameters, a fundamental task on stellar research. In this work we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-27 Miguel Flores R. , Luis J. Corral , Celia R. Fierro-Santillán

Astrophysical sources are now observed by many different instruments at different wavelengths, from radio to high-energy gamma-rays, with an unprecedented quality. Putting all these data together to form a coherent view, however, is a very…

We have made an estimation of the synchrotron peak frequency ($\nu_{peak}^{s}$) for six very low synchrotron peaked (VLSP) blazars. These objects were selected as VLSP candidates (with the $\nu_{peak}^{s} \leq 10^{13}$ Hz) from the archival…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-17 T. Mufakharov , Yu. Sotnikova , M. Mingaliev , A. Erkenov

Machine learning has been widely applied to clearly defined problems of astronomy and astrophysics. However, deep learning and its conceptual differences to classical machine learning have been largely overlooked in these fields. The broad…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Nima Sedaghat , Martino Romaniello , Jonathan E. Carrick , François-Xavier Pineau

We proposed a machine learning approach to identify and distinguish dusty stellar sources employing supervised and unsupervised methods and categorizing point sources, mainly evolved stars, using photometric and spectroscopic data collected…

We utilize machine learning methods to distinguish BL Lacertae objects (BL Lac) from Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQ) within a sample of likely X-ray blazar counterparts to Fermi 3FGL unassociated gamma-ray sources. From our previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 Amanpreet Kaur , Abraham D. Falcone , Michael C. Stroh

The time evolution of the electromagnetic emission from blazars, in particular high frequency peaked sources (HBLs), displays irregular activity not yet understood. In this work we report a methodology capable of characterizing the time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-02 E. Resconi , D. Franco , A. Gross , L. Costamante , E. Flaccomio

Blazars are active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets pointed almost directly at Earth. Blazars are characterized by strong, apparently stochastic flux variability at virtually all observed wavelengths and timescales, from minutes to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-16 Aryeh Brill

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

The popularity of Machine Learning (ML) has been increasing in the last decades in almost every area, being the commercial and scientific fields the most notorious ones. Concerning particle physics, ML has been proved as a useful resource…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-12-17 Xabier Cid Vidal , Lorena Dieste Maroñas , Álvaro Dósil Suárez