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Stellar streams are sensitive probes of the Milky Way's gravitational potential. The mean track of a stream constrains global properties of the potential, while its fine-grained surface density constrains galactic substructure. A precise…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-29 Nathaniel Starkman , Jacob Nibauer , Jo Bovy , Jeremy J. Webb , Kiyan Tavangar , Adrian Price-Whelan , Ana Bonaca

We present a method for accurately and precisely inferring photometric dust extinction towards stars at mid-to-high Galactic latitudes using probabilistic machine learning to model the colour-magnitude distribution of zero-extinction stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-15 Matthew O'Callaghan , Kaisey S. Mandel , Gerry Gilmore

Machine Learning is an efficient method for analyzing and interpreting the increasing amount of astronomical data that is available. In this study, we show, a pedagogical approach that should benefit anyone willing to experiment with Deep…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 Marwan Gebran , Kathleen Connick , Hikmat Farhat , Frédéric Paletou , Ian Bentley

The Gaia satellite will observe the positions and velocities of over a billion Milky Way stars. In the early data releases, the majority of observed stars do not have complete 6D phase-space information. In this Letter, we demonstrate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-08 Adriana Dropulic , Bryan Ostdiek , Laura J. Chang , Hongwan Liu , Timothy Cohen , Mariangela Lisanti

A simple, fully connected neural network with a single hidden layer is used to estimate stellar masses for star-forming galaxies. The model is trained on broad-band photometry - from far-ultraviolet to mid-infrared wavelengths - generated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 E. Elson

The advent of space-based observatories such as CoRoT and Kepler has enabled the testing of our understanding of stellar evolution on thousands of stars. Evolutionary models typically require five input parameters, the mass, initial Helium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Kuldeep Verma , Shravan Hanasoge , Jishnu Bhattacharya , H M Antia , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

A new generative technique is presented in this paper that uses Deep Learning to reconstruct stellar spectra based on a set of stellar parameters. Two different Neural Networks were trained allowing the generation of new spectra. First, an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Marwan Gebran

Large-scale spectroscopic surveys have collectively observed millions of stars across the Milky Way, but each derives stellar labels using independent pipelines with distinct modelling assumptions, introducing systematic offsets that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-29 Jeff Shen , Joshua S. Speagle , Shirley Ho

Accurate determinations of metallicity for large, complete stellar samples are essential for advancing various studies of the Milky Way. In this paper, we present a data-driven algorithm that leverages photometric data from the KiDS and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-11 Bao-Kun Sun , Bing-Qiu Chen , Xiao-Wei Liu

A deep understanding of the Milky Way galaxy, its formation and evolution requires observations of huge numbers of stars. Stellar photometry, therefore, provides an economical method to obtain intrinsic stellar parameters. With the addition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Louise M. Howes , Lennart Lindegren , Sofia Feltzing , Ross P. Church , Thomas Bensby

Stellar parameters for large samples of stars play a crucial role in constraining the nature of stars and stellar populations in the Galaxy. An increasing number of medium-band photometric surveys are presently used in estimating stellar…

The ability to make accurate determinations of planetary parameters is inextricably linked to measuring physical parameters of the host star, in particular the stellar radius. In this paper we fit the stellar spectral energy distributions…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Sam Morrell , Tim Naylor , John Southworth , David K. Sing

We present a non-parametric model for inferring the three-dimensional (3D) distribution of dust density in the Milky Way. Our approach uses the extinction measured towards stars at different locations in the Galaxy at approximately known…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 S. Rezaei Kh. , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , R. J. Hanson , M. Fouesneau

Despite the advances provided by large-scale photometric surveys, stellar features - such as metallicity - generally remain limited to spectroscopic observations often of bright, nearby low-extinction stars. To rectify this, we present a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-19 Connor P. Fallows , Jason L. Sanders

Temperature and luminosity are the two key diagnostics of a star, yet these cannot come directly from survey data, but must be imputed by comparing those data to models. SED fitting offers a high-precision method to obtain both parameters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 I. McDonald , A. A. Zijlstra , N. J. Cox , J. Bernard-Salas

We derive and publish data-driven estimates of stellar metallicities [M/H] for 175 million stars with low-resolution XP spectra published in Gaia DR3. The [M/H] values, along with Teff and logg, are derived using the XGBoost algorithm,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Rene Andrae , Hans-Walter Rix , Vedant Chandra

Gaia DR3 provides radial velocities for 33 million stars and spectroscopically derived atmospheric parameters for more than five million targets. When combined with the astrometric data, these allow us to derive orbital and stellar…

Gaia measures the five astrometric parameters for stars in the Milky Way, but only four of them (positions and proper motion, but not parallax) are well measured beyond a few kpc from the Sun. Modern spectroscopic surveys such as APOGEE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-21 Henry W. Leung , Jo Bovy

As a tool to interpret nearby and high redshift galaxy data from optical to K-band we present our chemically consistent spectrophotometric evolutionary synthesis models. These models take into account the increasing initial metallicity of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. S. Möller , U. Fritze-v. Alvensleben , K. J. Fricke , D. Calzetti

We present the DustFilaments code, a full sky model for the millimeter Galactic emission of thermal dust. Our model, composed of millions of filaments that are imperfectly aligned with the magnetic field, is able to reproduce the main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Kevin Huffenberger