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Photovoltaics (PV) are widely used to harvest solar energy, an important form of renewable energy. Photovoltaic arrays consist of multiple solar panels constructed from solar cells. Solar cells in the field are vulnerable to various…

Applications · Statistics 2024-08-13 Xinyi Song , Kennedy Odongo , Francis G. Pascual , Yili Hong

The discovery of exoplanets has expanded our understanding of planetary systems and opened new avenues for astronomical research. In this study, we present a machine learning (ML) framework for exoplanet identification using a time-series…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Reihaneh Karimi , Mahdiyar Mousavi-Sadr , Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi , Fatemeh S. Tabatabaei

M dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the Solar Neighborhood and they are prime targets for searching for rocky planets in habitable zones. Consequently, a detailed characterization of these stars is in demand. The spectral sub-type is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-28 Sirinrat Sithajan , Sukanya Meethong

We introduce a novel method for discerning optical telescope images of stars from those of galaxies using Gaussian processes (GPs). Although applications of GPs often struggle in high-dimensional data modalities such as optical image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Amanda L. Muyskens , Imène R. Goumiri , Benjamin W. Priest , Michael D. Schneider , Robert E. Armstrong , Jason M. Bernstein , Ryan Dana

This paper reports on the application of the supervised machine-learning algorithm to the stellar effective temperature regression for the second $Gaia$ data release, based on the combination of the stars in four spectroscopic surveys:…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Yu Bai , JiFeng Liu , ZhongRui Bai , Song Wang , DongWei Fan

Classifying variable stars is key for understanding stellar evolution and galactic dynamics. With the demands of large astronomical surveys, machine learning models, especially attention-based neural networks, have become the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 Martina Cádiz-Leyton , Guillermo Cabrera-Vives , Pavlos Protopapas , Daniel Moreno-Cartagena , Cristobal Donoso-Oliva , Ignacio Becker

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

A machine-learning-based method is developed to identify objects with unusual stellar spectra. The method employs an autoencoder, a neural network trained to compress spectral data into a low-dimensional representation and subsequently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Akihiro Suzuki

We present a new tool for the photometric estimate of stellar masses in distant galaxies. The observed SEDs are fitted by combining single stellar populations, with different SFRs and amounts of dust extinction. This approach gives us the…

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

Nowadays, Machine Learning techniques offer fast and efficient solutions for classification problems that would require intensive computational resources via traditional methods. We examine the use of a supervised Random Forest to classify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 I. Marini , S. Borgani , A. Saro , G. Murante , G. L. Granato , C. Ragone-Figueroa , G. Taffoni

We present our photometric method, which combines Subaru/HSC $NB515$, g, and i band filters to distinguish giant stars in Local Group galaxies from Milky Way dwarf contamination. The $NB515$ filter is a narrow-band filter that covers the…

Classification of stars and galaxies is a well-known astronomical problem that has been treated using different approaches, most of them relying on morphological information. In this paper, we tackle this issue using the low-resolution…

We have investigated and applied machine-learning algorithms for Infrared Colour Selection of Galactic Wolf-Rayet (WR) candidates. Objects taken from the GLIMPSE catalogue of the infrared objects in the Galactic plane can be classified into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Giuseppe Morello , Patrick W. Morris , Schuyler D. Van Dyk , Anthony P. Marston , Jon C. Mauerhan

The vast volume of data generated by modern astronomical surveys offers test beds for the application of machine-learning. It is important to evaluate potential existing tools and determine those that are optimal for extracting scientific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Rafael Garcia-Dias , Carlos Allende Prieto , Jorge Sánchez Almeida , Pedro Alonso Palicio

Differences in metallicity between the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) offer an opportunity to examine whether environmental metallicity affects the performance of machine learning models in classifying…

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

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

Quantifying the contribution of mergers to the stellar mass of galaxies is key for constraining the mechanisms of galaxy assembly across cosmic time. However, the mapping between observable galaxy properties and merger histories is not…