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We present a pipeline to identify photometric variability within strong gravitationally lensing candidates, in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. In our first paper (Sheu et al. 2023), we laid out our pipeline and presented seven new…

The H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey (HGPS) represents one of the most sensitive surveys of the Galactic Plane at very high energies (VHE, 0.1-100 TeV). However the source detection algorithm of the HGPS pipeline is not well-suited for…

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The results of a large area, ~600 deg^2, K-band flux-limited spectroscopic survey for luminous quasars are presented. The survey utilises the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey (LAS) in regions of sky within the Sloan…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Natasha Maddox , Paul C. Hewett , Celine Peroux , Daniel B. Nestor , Lutz Wisotzki

We present the Multi-Array Galactic Plane Imaging Survey (MAGPIS), which maps portions of the first Galactic quadrant with an angular resolution, sensitivity and dynamic range that surpasses existing radio images of the Milky Way by more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-23 David J. Helfand , Robert H. Becker , Richard L. White , Adam Fallon , Sarah Tuttle

The hybrid quantum-classical learning scheme provides a prominent way to achieve quantum advantages on near-term quantum devices. A concrete example towards this goal is the quantum neural network (QNN), which has been developed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Yuxuan Du , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Tongliang Liu , Dacheng Tao

We present a catalog of nearby (z $\leq$ 0.5) quasars with significant features of post-starburst stellar populations in their optical spectra, so-called post-starburst quasars, or PSQs. After carefully decomposing spectra from the Sloan…

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We present a sample of 12 quasar candidates with highly variable soft X-ray emission from the 4th XMM-newton Serendipitous Source Catalog (4XMM-DR13) using random forest. We obtained optical to mid-IR photometric data for the 4XMM-DR13…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-16 Heng Wang , Yanli Ai , Yanxia Zhang , Yuming Fu , Wenfeng Wen , Liming Dou , Xue-Bing Wu , Xiangru Li , Zhiying Huo

Machine learning techniques offer a precious tool box for use within astronomy to solve problems involving so-called big data. They provide a means to make accurate predictions about a particular system without prior knowledge of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-01 J. Elliott , R. S. de Souza , A. Krone-Martins , E. Cameron , E. E. O. Ishida , J. Hilbe

We present an empirical algorithm for obtaining photometric redshifts of quasars using 5-band Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry. Our algorithm generates an empirical model of the quasar color-redshift relation, compares the colors…

Quasar absorption line analysis is critical for studying gas and dust components and their physical and chemical properties as well as the evolution and formation of galaxies in the early universe. Ca II absorbers, which are one of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-18 Iona Xia , Jian Ge , Kevin Willis , Yinan Zhao

We present a photometric method for identifying stars, galaxies and quasars in multi-color surveys and estimating multi-color redshifts for the extragalactic objects. We use a library of >65000 color templates for comparison with observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Christian Wolf , Klaus Meisenheimer , Hermann-Josef Röser

In this work we train three decision-tree based ensemble machine learning algorithms (Random Forest Classifier, Adaptive Boosting and Gradient Boosting Decision Tree respectively) to study quasar selection in the variable source catalog in…

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Current remote sensing image classification problems have to deal with an unprecedented amount of heterogeneous and complex data sources. Upcoming missions will soon provide large data streams that will make land cover/use classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Pablo Morales-Alvarez , Adrian Perez-Suay , Rafael Molina , Gustau Camps-Valls

The UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey (GPS) is one of the five near infrared Public Legacy Surveys that are being undertaken by the UKIDSS consortium, using the Wide Field Camera on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope. It is surveying 1868…

Machine learning is a powerful technique, becoming increasingly popular in astrophysics. In this paper, we apply machine learning to more than a thousand globular cluster (GC) models simulated as part of the 'MOCCA-Survey Database I'…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 Ammar Askar , Abbas Askar , Mario Pasquato , Mirek Giersz

We present a sample of 305 QSO candidates having $|b| < 30^{\circ}$, the majority with GALEX magnitudes NUV < 18.75. To generate this sample, we apply UV-IR color selection criteria to photometric data from the Ultraviolet GAlactic Plane…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-20 Jessica Werk , Kirill Tchernyshyov , Hannah Bish , Yong Zheng , Mary Putman , Joshua Peek , David Schiminovich

Pulsar searching is essential for the scientific research in the field of physics and astrophysics. As the development of the radio telescope, the exploding volume and it growth speed of candidates growth have brought about several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Qingguo Zeng , Xiangru Li , Haitao Lin

Machine learning has become widely used in astronomy. Gaussian Process (GP) regression in particular has been employed a number of times to fit or re-sample supernova (SN) light-curves, however by their nature typical GP models are not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 H. F. Stevance , A. Lee

Of the hundreds of $z\gtrsim6$ quasars discovered to date, only one is known to be gravitationally lensed, despite the high lensing optical depth expected at $z\gtrsim6$. High-redshift quasars are typically identified in large-scale surveys…