Fitting the integrated spectral energy distributions of galaxies

J Walcher, B Groves, T Budavári, D Dale - Astrophysics and Space …, 2011 - Springer
Fitting the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies is an almost universally used
technique that has matured significantly in the last decade. Model predictions and fitting …

Data mining and machine learning in astronomy

NM Ball, RJ Brunner - International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2010 - World Scientific
We review the current state of data mining and machine learning in astronomy. Data Mining
can have a somewhat mixed connotation from the point of view of a researcher in this field. If …

Star-galaxy classification using deep convolutional neural networks

EJ Kim, RJ Brunner - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Most existing star-galaxy classifiers use the reduced summary information from catalogs,
requiring careful feature extraction and selection. The latest advances in machine learning …

Quantum algorithms for nearest-neighbor methods for supervised and unsupervised learning

N Wiebe, A Kapoor, K Svore - arxiv preprint arxiv:1401.2142, 2014 - arxiv.org
We present several quantum algorithms for performing nearest-neighbor learning. At the
core of our algorithms are fast and coherent quantum methods for computing distance …

Models and simulations for the photometric LSST astronomical time series classification challenge (PLAsTiCC)

R Kessler, G Narayan, A Avelino… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the simulated data sample for the Photometric Large Synoptic Survey
Telescope (LSST) Astronomical Time Series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC), a …

TPZ: photometric redshift PDFs and ancillary information by using prediction trees and random forests

M Carrasco Kind, RJ Brunner - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
With the growth of large photometric surveys, accurately estimating photometric redshifts,
preferably as a probability density function (PDF), and fully understanding the implicit …

Dnf–galaxy photometric redshift by directional neighbourhood fitting

J De Vicente, E Sánchez… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Wide field images taken in several photometric bands allow simultaneous measurement of
redshifts for thousands of galaxies. A variety of algorithms to make this measurement have …

GPz: non-stationary sparse Gaussian processes for heteroscedastic uncertainty estimation in photometric redshifts

IA Almosallam, MJ Jarvis… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The next generation of cosmology experiments will be required to use photometric redshifts
rather than spectroscopic redshifts. Obtaining accurate and well-characterized photometric …

Photometric redshifts for the CFHTLS T0004 deep and wide fields

J Coupon, O Ilbert, M Kilbinger, HJ McCracken… - Astronomy & …, 2009 - aanda.org
Aims. We compute photometric redshifts in the fourth public release of the Canada-France-
Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey. This unique multi-colour catalogue comprises $ u^*, g', r' …

Photometric redshifts for the next generation of deep radio continuum surveys–I. Template fitting

KJ Duncan, MJI Brown, WL Williams… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present a study of photometric redshift performance for galaxies and active galactic
nuclei detected in deep radio continuum surveys. Using two multiwavelength data sets, over …