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We present a technique which employs artificial neural networks to produce physical parameters for stellar spectra. A neural network is trained on a set of synthetic optical stellar spectra to give physical parameters (e.g. T_eff, log g,…

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We present a new method for inferring galaxy star formation histories (SFH) using machine learning methods coupled with two cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. We train Convolutional Neural Networks to learn the relationship between…

Innovation in the ground and space-based instruments has taken us into a new age of spectroscopy, in which a large amount of stellar content is becoming available. So, automatic classification of stellar spectra became subjective in recent…

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The data archives from space and ground-based telescopes present a vast opportunity for the astronomical community. We describe a classification encoding system for stellar spectra designed for archival databases that organizes the spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-16 Myron A. Smith , Randall W. Thompson , Richard O. Gray , Christopher Corbally , Inga Kamp

Stellar spectroscopic classification has been successfully automated by a number of groups. Automated classification and parameterization work best when applied to a homogeneous data set, and thus these techniques primarily have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ted von Hippel , Carlos Allende Prieto , Chris Sneden

There are now hundreds of publicly available supernova spectral time series. Radiative transfer modeling of this data gives insights into the physical properties of these explosions such as the composition, the density structure, or the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 C. Vogl , W. E. Kerzendorf , S. A. Sim , U. M. Noebauer , S. Lietzau , W. Hillebrandt

Libraries of stellar spectra are fundamental tools for the study of stellar populations and both empirical and synthetic libraries have been used for this purpose. In this paper, a new library of high resolution synthetic spectra is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Coelho , B. Barbuy , J. Melendez , R. Schiavon , B. Castilho

Program SMART (Spectra and Model Atmospheres by Radiative Transfer) has been composed for modelling atmospheres and spectra of hot stars (O, B and A spectral classes) and studying different physical processes in them (Sapar & Poolam\"ae…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-08 Anna Aret , Arved Sapar , Raivo Poolamäe , Lili Sapar

We compare the performance of several popular spectrum fitting codes (Firefly, starlight, pyPipe3D and pPXF), and a deep-learning convolutional neural network (StarNet), in recovering known stellar population properties (mean stellar age,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-29 Joanna Woo , Dan Walters , Finn Archinuk , S. M. Faber , Sara L. Ellison , Hossen Teimoorinia , Kartheik Iyer

Stellar spectral interpolation is critical technique employed by fitting software to derive the physical parameters of stars. This approach is necessary because on-the-go generation of synthetic stellar spectra is not possible due to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Nitesh Kumar , Philippe Prugniel , Harinder P. Singh

High-quality data from space-based observatories present an opportunity to fit stellar models to observations of individually-identified oscillation frequencies, not just the large and small frequency separations. But such fits require the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Warrick H. Ball , Jesper Schou , Laurent Gizon , João P. Marques

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…

Stellar spectra encode key information on the physical properties and chemical compositions of stars. Accurate stellar parameter determination is essential for addressing major questions such as galaxy and stellar evolution. Large-scale…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Hai-Ling Lu , Yu-Yang Li , Yin-Bi Li , Cun-Shi Wang , A-Li Luo , Jun-Chao Liang , Shuo Li

Unveiling the evolutionary history of galaxies necessitates a precise understanding of their physical properties. Traditionally, astronomers achieve this through spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting. However, this approach can be…

Observations of molecular lines are a key tool to determine the main physical properties of prestellar cores. However, not all the information is retained in the observational process or easily interpretable, especially when a larger number…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-08 T. Grassi , M. Padovani , D. Galli , N. Vaytet , S. S. Jensen , E. Redaelli , S. Spezzano , S. Bovino , P. Caselli

Over the last decades, evolutionary population synthesis models have powered an unmatched leap forward in our understanding of galaxies. From dating the age of the first galaxies in the Universe to detailed measurements of the chemical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-13 I. Martín-Navarro , A. Vazdekis

We have developed a method for fast and accurate stellar population parameters determination in order to apply it to high resolution galaxy spectra. The method is based on an optimization technique that combines active learning with an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Thamar Solorio , Olac Fuentes , Roberto Terlevich , Elena Terlevich

In the current era of stellar spectroscopic surveys, synthetic spectral libraries are the basis for the derivation of stellar parameters and chemical abundances. In this paper, we compare the stellar parameters determined using five popular…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-03 Spencer Bialek , Sébastien Fabbro , Kim A. Venn , Nripesh Kumar , Teaghan O'Briain , Kwang Moo Yi

A comprehensive hybrid library of synthetic stellar spectra based on three original grids of model atmosphere spectra by Kurucz (1995), Fluks et al. (1994), and Bessell et al. (1989, 1991) is presented. The combined library is intended for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 T. Lejeune , F. Cuisinier , R. Buser

With the availability of multi-object spectrometers and the designing \& running of some large scale sky surveys, we are obtaining massive spectra. Therefore, it becomes more and more important to deal with the massive spectral data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Xiangru Li , Yangtao Lin , Kaibin Qiu