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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

Beam steering is the process involving the calibration of the angle and position at which a particle accelerator's electron beam is incident upon the x-ray target with respect to the rotation axis of the collimator. Beam Steering is an…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Isaac Kante

Star formation rates (SFRs) are a crucial observational tracer of galaxy formation and evolution. Spectroscopy, which is expensive, is traditionally used to estimate SFRs. This study tests the possibility of inferring SFRs of large samples…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-10 Satvik Raghav , Prasanth Ayitapu , Sathwik Narkedimilli , Sujith Makam , Aswath Babu H

We investigate the potential of machine learning (ML) methods to model small-scale galaxy clustering for constraining Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) parameters. Our analysis reveals that while many ML algorithms report good statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-19 Abhishek Jana , Lado Samushia

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…

We showcase machine learning (ML) inspired target selection algorithms to determine which of all potential targets should be selected first for spectroscopic follow up. Efficient target selection can improve the ML redshift uncertainties as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-16 Ben Hoyle , Kerstin Paech , Markus Michael Rau , Stella Seitz , Jochen Weller

In this second paper in a series of papers based on the most-up-to-date catalogue of symbiotic stars (SySts), we present a new approach for identifying and distinguishing SySts from other Halpha emitters in photometric surveys using machine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Stavros Akras , Marcelo L. Leal-Ferreira , Lizette Guzman-Ramirez , Gerardo Ramos-Larios

Understanding how galaxies trace the underlying matter density field is essential for characterizing the influence of the large-scale structure on galaxy formation, being therefore a key ingredient in observational cosmology. This…

AI and deep learning techniques are beginning to play an increasing role in astronomy as a necessary tool to deal with the data avalanche. Here we describe an application for finding resolved Planetary Nebulae (PNe) in crowded, wide-field,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Ruiqi Sun , Yushan Li , Quentin Parker , Jiaxin Li , Xu Li , Liang Cao , Peng Jia

Quickly growing computing facilities and an increasing number of extragalactic observations encourage the application of data-driven approaches to uncover hidden relations from astronomical data. In this work we raise the problem of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 A. Elyiv , O. Melnyk , I. Vavilova , D. Dobrycheva , V. Karachentseva

Estimating and rectifying the orientation angle of any image is a pretty challenging task. Initial work used the hand engineering features for this purpose, where after the invention of deep learning using convolution-based neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Subhadip Maji , Smarajit Bose

We develop a novel method based on machine learning principles to achieve optimal initiation of CPU-intensive computations for forward asteroseismic modeling in a multi-D parameter space. A deep neural network is trained on a precomputed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Luc Hendriks , Conny Aerts

In this experiment, we created a Multiple-Input Neural Network, consisting of Convolutional and Multi-layer Neural Networks. With this setup the selected highest-performing neural network was able to distinguish variable stars based on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 T. Szklenár , A. Bódi , D. Tarczay-Nehéz , K. Vida , Gy. Mező , R. Szabó

Magnetic activity in stars manifests as dark spots on their surfaces that modulate the brightness observed by telescopes. These light curves contain important information on stellar rotation. However, the accurate estimation of rotation…

Owing to the remarkable photometric precision of space observatories like Kepler, stellar and planetary systems beyond our own are now being characterized en masse for the first time. These characterizations are pivotal for endeavors such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-03 Earl P. Bellinger , George C. Angelou , Saskia Hekker , Sarbani Basu , Warrick Ball , Elisabeth Guggenberger

Classical Be stars are fast rotating, near main sequence B-type stars. The rotation and the presence of circumstellar discs profoundly modify the observables of active Be stars. Our goal is to infer stellar and disc parameters, as well as…

We present a new method for detecting and correcting systematic errors in the distances to stars when both proper motions and line-of-sight velocities are available. The method, which is applicable for samples of 200 or more stars that have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Ralph Schoenrich , James Binney , Martin Asplund

Machine learning techniques are utilised in several areas of astrophysical research today. This dissertation addresses the application of ML techniques to two classes of problems in astrophysics, namely, the analysis of individual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-06 N. Daniel Kumar

Most existing star-galaxy classifiers depend on the reduced information from catalogs, necessitating careful data processing and feature extraction. In this study, we employ a supervised machine learning method (GoogLeNet) to automatically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-23 Shiliang Zhang , Guanwen Fang , Jie Song , Ran Li , Yizhou Gu , Zesen Lin , Chichun Zhou , Yao Dai , Xu Kong

In this work we focus on the determination of the relative distributions of young, intermediate-age and old populations of stars in galaxies. Starting from a grid of theoretical population synthesis models we constructed a set of model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thamar Solorio , Olac Fuentes , Roberto Terlevich , Elena Terlevich , Sandro Bressan