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It is possible to reliably identify white dwarfs (WDs) without recourse to spectra, instead using photometric and astrometric measurements to distinguish them from Main Sequence stars and quasars. WDs' colours can also be used to infer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-22 Daniel J. Mortlock , Hiranya V. Peiris , Zeljko Ivezic

According to various estimates, brown dwarfs (BD) should account for up to 25 percent of all objects in the Galaxy. However, few of them are discovered and well-studied, both individually and as a population. Homogeneous and complete…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-21 Aleksandra Avdeeva

With the prevalence of wide-field, time-domain photometric sky surveys, the number of eclipsing white dwarf systems being discovered is increasing dramatically. An efficient method to follow these up will be key to determining any…

Close white dwarf binaries (CWDBs) are considered to be progenitors of several exotic astronomical phenomena (e.g., type Ia supernovae, cataclysmic variables). These violent events are broadly used in studies of general relativity and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Genghao Liu , Baitian Tang , Liangliang Ren , Chengyuan Li , Sihao Cheng , Weikai Zong , Jianning Fu , Bo Ma , Cheng Xu , Yiming Hu

We describe the spectral classification of white dwarfs and some of the physical processes important for their understanding. In the major part of this paper we discuss the input physics and computational methods for one of the most widely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-03 Detlev Koester

White dwarfs (WD) with main-sequence (MS) companions are crucial probes of stellar evolution. However, due to the significant difference in their luminosities, the WD is often outshined by the MS star. The aim of this work is to find hidden…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Xabier Pérez-Couto , Minia Manteiga , Eva Villaver

We have conducted a spectroscopic survey of over 1300 bright (V < 17.5), hydrogen-rich white dwarfs based largely on the last published version of the McCook & Sion catalog. The complete results from our survey, including the spectroscopic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Alexandros Gianninas , Pierre Bergeron , Maria Teresa Ruiz

The determination of atmospheric parameters of white dwarf stars (WDs) is crucial for researches on them. Traditional methodology is to fit the model spectra to observed absorption lines and report the parameters with the lowest $\chi ^2$…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-29 Yong Yang , Jingkun Zhao , Jiajun Zhang , Xianhao Ye , Gang Zhao

We investigate the application of neural networks to the automation of MK spectral classification. The data set for this project consists of a set of over 5000 optical (3800-5200 AA) spectra obtained from objective prism plates from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones , Mike Irwin , Ted von Hippel

Machine learning methods have found many applications in Raman spectroscopy, especially for the identification of chemical species. However, almost all of these methods require non-trivial preprocessing such as baseline correction and/or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Jinchao Liu , Margarita Osadchy , Lorna Ashton , Michael Foster , Christopher J. Solomon , Stuart J. Gibson

White dwarf spectroscopic characterization is entering a big data era, with the number of spectroscopically characterized white dwarfs expected to grow from $\sim$100,000 to over 300,000 in upcoming years. Traditional methods like…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Olivier Vincent , Patrick Dufour , Pierre Bergeron

We present improved atmospheric parameters of nearby white dwarfs lying within 20 pc of the Sun. The aim of the current study is to obtain the best statistical model of the least-biased sample of the white dwarf population. A homogeneous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Noemi Giammichele , Pierre Bergeron , Patrick Dufour

We proposed a machine learning approach to identify and distinguish dusty stellar sources employing supervised and unsupervised methods and categorizing point sources, mainly evolved stars, using photometric and spectroscopic data collected…

M dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the Galaxy and serve as key targets for stellar and exoplanetary studies. It is particularly challenging to determine their metallicities because their spectra are complex. For this reason, several…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-23 C. Duque-Arribas , H. M. Tabernero , D. Montes , J. A. Caballero , E. Galceran

Automated photometric supernova classification has become an active area of research in recent years in light of current and upcoming imaging surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, given that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-08 Michelle Lochner , Jason D. McEwen , Hiranya V. Peiris , Ofer Lahav , Max K. Winter

The application of machine learning principles in the photometric search of elusive astronomical objects has been a less-explored frontier of research. Here we have used three methods: the Neural Network and two variants of k-Nearest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 D. Bhavana , S. Vig , S. K. Ghosh , Rama Krishna Sai S. Gorthi

Identification of specific stellar populations using photometry for spectroscopic follow-up is a first step to confirm and better understand their nature. In this context, we present an unsupervised machine learning approach to identify…

Automated techniques have been developed to automate the process of classification of objects or their analysis. The large datasets provided by upcoming spectroscopic surveys with dedicated telescopes urges scientists to use these automated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Mahdi Bazarghan , Ranjan Gupta

Optical spectra of galaxies and quasars from large cosmological surveys are used to measure redshifts and infer distances. They are also rich with information on the intrinsic properties of these astronomical objects. However, their…

We cross-matched 1.3 million white dwarf (WD) candidates from Gaia EDR3 with spectral data from LAMOST DR7 within 3 arcsec. Applying machine learning described in our previous work, we spectroscopically identified 6,190 WD objects after…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Xiao Kong , A-Li Luo