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Statistical pattern recognition methods have provided competitive solutions for variable star classification at a relatively low computational cost. In order to perform supervised classification, a set of features is proposed and used to…

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We present an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model of photospheric lithium depletion in cool stars (3000 < Teff / K < 6500), producing estimates and probability distributions of age from Li I 6708A equivalent width (LiEW) and effective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-13 George Weaver , Robin D. Jeffries , Richard J. Jackson

We present a study of 7 southern open clusters based on UBVRI CCD photomety (Johnsons-Cousins system) and Gaia DR2 data. Dias 4, Dias 6 and four other clusters had UBVRI photometric observations determined for the first time. From the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Wilton S. Dias , Hektor Monteiro , Jacques R. D. Lépine , R. Prates , C. D. Gneiding , M. Sacchi

Analyzer of Spectra for Age Determination (ASAD) is a new package that can easily predict the age and reddening of stellar clusters from their observed optical integrated spectra by comparing them to synthesis model spectra. The ages…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Randa Asa'd

We develop a method ('Galactic Archaeology Neural Network', GANN) based on neural network models (NNMs) to identify accreted stars in galactic discs by only their chemical fingerprint and age, using a suite of simulated galaxies from the…

RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) are old pulsating variables widely used as metallicity tracers due to the correlation between their metal abundances and light curve morphology. With ESA Gaia DR3 providing light curves for about 270,000 RRLs, there is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Lorenzo Monti , Tatiana Muraveva , Alessia Garofalo , Gisella Clementini , Maria Letizia Valentini

We present updated stellar population models appropriate for old ages (>1 Gyr) and covering a wide range in metallicities (-1.5<[Fe/H]<0.3). These models predict the full spectral variation associated with individual element abundance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 Charlie Conroy , Alexa Villaume , Pieter van Dokkum , Karin Lind

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…

The artificial neural network (ANN) is a well-established mathematical technique for data prediction, based on the identification of correlations and pattern recognition in input training sets. We present the application of ANNs to predict…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-05-05 Hossein Teimoorinia , Sara L. Ellison

We have extended our evolutionary synthesis code, GALEV, to include Lick/IDS absorption-line indices for both simple and composite stellar population models (star clusters and galaxies), using the polynomial fitting functions of Worthey et…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Lilly , Uta Fritze-v. Alvensleben

We present a new technique for the determination of age and metallicity in composite stellar populations using Stromgren filters. Using principal component (PC) analysis on multi-color models, we isolate the range of values necessary to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Rakos , J. Schombert

Process refinement to consistently produce high-quality material over a large area of the grown crystal, enabling various applications from optics crystals to quantum detectors, has long been a goal for diamond growth. Machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Rohan Reddy Mekala , Elias Garratt , Matthias Muehle , Arjun Srinivasan , Adam Porter , Mikael Lindvall

The estimation of the main parameters of star clusters is a very important target in astrophysical studies. Many of the open clusters listed in known catalogs have insuffcient astrometric parameters. Improving the observations and analysis…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 A. L. Tadross , Y. M. Hendy

Despite their successes in the field of self-learning AI, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) suffer from having too many trainable parameters, impacting computational performance. Several approaches have been proposed to reduce the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Sebastiaan Koning , Caspar Greeven , Eric Postma

Aims: According to some estimations, there are as many as 100000 open clusters in the Galaxy, but less than 2000 of them have been discovered, measured, and cataloged. We plan to undertake data mining of multiwavelength surveys to find new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. E. Koposov , E. V. Glushkova , I. Yu. Zolotukhin

Deep learning techniques have recently been utilized for model-free age-associated gait feature extraction. However, acquiring model-free gait demands accurate pre-processing such as background subtraction, which is non-trivial in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Timilehin B. Aderinola , Tee Connie , Thian Song Ong , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh , Michael Kah Ong Goh

The improvements in the precision of the published data in \textit{Gaia} EDR3 with respect to \textit{Gaia} DR2, particularly for parallaxes and proper motions, offer the opportunity to increase the number of known open clusters in the…

Rup147 is the closest old open cluster, with a distance of less than 300 pc and an age of about 2.5Gyr. It is therefore well suited for testing stellar evolution models and for obtaining precise and detailed chemical abundance information.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Angela Bragaglia , Xiaoting Fu , Alessio Mucciarelli , Gloria Andreuzzi , Paolo Donati

In order to find a fast and reliable method for selecting metal poor galaxies (MPGs), especially in large surveys and huge database, an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) method is applied to a sample of star-forming galaxies from the Sloan…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 F. Shi , Y-Y. Liu , X. Kong , Y. Chen

We present the analysis of a deep colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) of NGC 1831, a rich star cluster in the LMC. The data were obtained with HST/WFPC2 in the F555W (~V) and F814W (~I) filters, reaching m_555 ~ 25. We discuss and apply a method…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. O. Kerber , B. X. Santiago , R. Castro , D. Valls-Gabaud