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High-precision photometric standard stars play a key role in enabling accurate photometric calibration and advancing various fields of astronomy. However, due to limitations in calibration methods and the limited availability and underuse…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Kai Xiao , Yang Huang , Haibo Yuan , Bowen Huang , Dongwei Fan , Timothy C. Beers , Zhirui Li , Henggeng Han , Qiqian Zhang , Tao Wang , Mingyang Ma , Yuanchang Wang , Shuai Xu , Lin Yang , Jifeng Liu

We provide classifications for all 143 million non-repeat photometric objects in the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using decision trees trained on 477,068 objects with SDSS spectroscopic data. We demonstrate that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicholas M. Ball , Robert J. Brunner , Adam D. Myers , David Tcheng

We present the results of a proof-of-concept experiment which demonstrates that deep learning can successfully be used for production-scale classification of compact star clusters detected in HST UV-optical imaging of nearby spiral galaxies…

We used 3.1 million spectroscopically labelled sources from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to train an optimised random forest classifier using photometry from the SDSS and the Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). We applied this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 A. O. Clarke , A. M. M. Scaife , R. Greenhalgh , V. Griguta

Currently available star cluster catalogues from HST imaging of nearby galaxies heavily rely on visual inspection and classification of candidate clusters. The time-consuming nature of this process has limited the production of reliable…

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

Classification is a popular task in the field of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and it happens when outputs are categorical variables. There are a wide variety of models that attempts to draw some conclusions from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi

In this work, we select the high signal-to-noise ratio spectra of stars from the LAMOST data andmap theirMK classes to the spectral features. The equivalentwidths of the prominent spectral lines, playing the similar role as the multi-color…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-25 Chao Liu , Wen-Yuan Cui , Bo Zhang , Jun-Chen Wan , Li-Cai Deng , Yonghui Hou , Yuefei Wang , Ming Yang , Yong Zhang

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 success of automatic classification of variable stars strongly depends on the lightcurve representation. Usually, lightcurves are represented as a vector of many statistical descriptors designed by astronomers called features. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Cristóbal Mackenzie , Karim Pichara , Pavlos Protopapas

The Magellanic Clouds (MCs) are excellent locations to study stellar dust emission and its contribution to galaxy evolution. Through spectral and photometric classification, MCs can serve as a unique environment for studying stellar…

Context. Machine-Learning (ML) solves problems by learning patterns from data, with limited or no human guidance. In Astronomy, it is mainly applied to large observational datasets, e.g. for morphological galaxy classification. Aims. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 Mario Pasquato , Chul Chung

A significant degree of misclassification of variable stars through the application of machine learning methods to survey data motivates a search for more reliable and accurate machine learning procedures, especially in light of the very…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-18 Refilwe Kgoadi , Chris Engelbrecht , Ian Whittingham , Andrew Tkachenko

Classifying variable stars is crucial for advancing our understanding of stellar evolution and dynamics. As large-scale surveys generate increasing volumes of light curve data, the demand for automated and reliable classification techniques…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Almat Akhmetali , Alisher Zhunuskanov , Timur Namazbayev , Marat Zaidyn , Aknur Sakan , Dana Turlykozhayeva , Nurzhan Ussipov

The automatic classification of X-ray detections is a necessary step in extracting astrophysical information from compiled catalogs of astrophysical sources. Classification is useful for the study of individual objects, statistics for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 Víctor Samuel Pérez-Díaz , Juan Rafael Martínez-Galarza , Alexander Caicedo , Raffaele D'Abrusco

We present a machine learning (ML) pipeline to identify star clusters in the multi{color images of nearby galaxies, from observations obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Treasury Project LEGUS (Legacy ExtraGalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 Gustavo Perez , Matteo Messa , Daniela Calzetti , Subhransu Maji , Dooseok Jung , Angela Adamo , Mattia Siressi

Modern large-scale photometric surveys have provided us with multi-band photometries of billions of stars. Determining the stellar atmospheric parameters, such as the effective temperature (\teff) and metallicities (\feh), absolute…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Mingxu Sun , Bingqiu Chen , Helong Guo , He Zhao , Ming Yang , Wenyuan Cui

We present a new machine learning model for estimating photometric redshifts with improved accuracy for galaxies in Pan-STARRS1 data release 1. Depending on the estimation range of redshifts, this model based on neural networks can handle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 Joongoo Lee , Min-Su Shin

Distinguishing active galaxies from star-forming galaxies is essential for understanding galaxy evolution. Diagnostic methods like the BPT (Baldwin, Phillips, and Terlevich) diagram use optical emission-line ratios to separate galaxies.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-26 Farideh Mazoochi , Reihaneh Karimi , Mohammad Hossein Zhoolideh Haghighi , Fatemeh Tabatabaei