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The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) observed many open clusters as part of its programme to spectroscopically characterise the various Milky Way populations. GES spectroscopy and Gaia astrometry from its second data release are used here to assign…

We present a new technique designed to take full advantage of the high dimensionality (photometric, astrometric, temporal) of the DANCe survey to derive self-consistent and robust membership probabilities of the Pleiades cluster. We aim at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 L. M. Sarro , H. Bouy , A. Berihuete , E. Bertin , E. Moraux , J. Bouvier , J. -C. Cuillandre , D. Barrado , E. Solano

Interstellar polarimetric data of the six open clusters Hogg 15, NGC 6611, NGC 5606, NGC 6231, NGC 5749 and NGC 6250 have been used to estimate the membership probability for the stars within them. For proper-motion member stars, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Biman J. Medhi , Motohide Tamura

Observations of clusters suffer from issues such as completeness, projection effects, resolving individual stars and extinction. As such, how accurate are measurements and conclusions are likely to be? Here, we take cluster simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Anne S. M. Buckner , Tim Naylor , Clare L. Dobbs , Steven Rieder , Thomas J. R. Bending

We present a machine learning approach for estimating galaxy cluster masses, trained using both Chandra and eROSITA mock X-ray observations of 2,041 clusters from the Magneticum simulations. We train a random forest regressor, an ensemble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-14 Sheridan B. Green , Michelle Ntampaka , Daisuke Nagai , Lorenzo Lovisari , Klaus Dolag , Dominique Eckert , John A. ZuHone

In Astrophysics, the identification of candidate Globular Clusters through deep, wide-field, single band HST images, is a typical data analytics problem, where methods based on Machine Learning have revealed a high efficiency and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-12 Giuseppe Angora , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Riccio , Stefano Cavuoti , Maurizio Paolillo , Thomas H. Puzia

The distribution of young stars into OB associations has long been in need of updating. High-precision {\sl Gaia} early Data Release 3 astrometry, coupled with modern machine-learning methods, allows this to be done. We have compiled a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Alexander A. Chemel , Richard de Grijs , Elena V. Glushkova , Andrey K. Dambis

We have been represented the collective information of estimation procedures of parameters of the open clusters and put them together for showing the importance of clusters to understand their role in stellar evolution phenomenon. Moreover,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-24 Gireesh C. Joshi

We present a deep machine learning (ML) approach to constraining cosmological parameters with multi-wavelength observations of galaxy clusters. The ML approach has two components: an encoder that builds a compressed representation of each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Michelle Ntampaka , Alexey Vikhlinin

This work analyses the present-day mass function (PDMF) of 93~star clusters utilizing Gaia DR3 data, with membership determined by the StarGo machine learning algorithm. The impact of unresolved binary systems on mass estimation is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-15 Xiaoying Pang , Siqi Liao , Jiadong Li , Zhiqiang Yan , Mingjie Jian , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Shih-Yun Tang , Yifan Wang

Numerical N-body simulations are commonly used to explore stability regions around exoplanets, offering insights into the possible existence of satellites and ring systems. This study aims to utilize Machine Learning (ML) techniques to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Tiago F. L. L. Pinheiro , Rafael Sfair , Giovana Ramon

Membership identification is the first step to determine the properties of a star cluster. Low-mass members in particular could be used to trace the dynamical history, such as mass segregation, stellar evaporation, or tidal stripping, of a…

Context. Previous attempts to separate Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) stars from the Milky Way (MW) foreground stars are based only on the proper motions of the stars. Aims. In this paper we develop a statistical classification technique to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Ó. Jiménez-Arranz , M. Romero-Gómez , X. Luri , E. Masana

The nearby open cluster NGC 752 presents a rare opportunity to study stellar properties at ages >1 Gyr. However, constructing a membership catalog for it is challenging; most surveys have been limited to identifying its giants and dwarf…

Machine learning (ML) techniques, in particular supervised regression algorithms, are a promising new way to use multiple observables to predict a cluster's mass or other key features. To investigate this approach we use the \textsc{MACSIS}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Thomas J. Armitage , Scott T. Kay , David J. Barnes

Machine Learning (ML) is the branch of computer science that studies computer algorithms that can learn from data. It is mainly divided into supervised learning, where the computer is presented with examples of entries, and the goal is to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 V. Carruba , S. Aljbaae , R. C. Domingos , M. Huaman , W. Barletta

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 M. F. Pérez-Ortiz , A. García-Varela , A. J. Quiroz , B. E. Sabogal , J. Hernández

We propose a random forest (RF) machine learning approach to determine the accreted stellar mass fractions ($f_\mathrm{acc}$) of central galaxies, based on various dark matter halo and galaxy features. The RF is trained and tested using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-14 Rui Shi , Wenting Wang , Zhaozhou Li , Jiaxin Han , Jingjing Shi , Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez , Yingjie Peng , Qingyang Li

The unprecedented volume and quality of data from space- and ground-based telescopes present an opportunity for machine learning to identify new classes of variable stars and peculiar systems that may have been overlooked by traditional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 P. Ranaivomanana , C. Johnston , G. Iorio , P. J. Groot , M. Uzundag , T. Kupfer , C. Aerts

$Context$. Gaia Second Data Release provides precise astrometry and photometry for more than 1.3 billion sources. This catalog opens a new era concerning the characterization of open clusters and test stellar models, paving the way for a…