Automated Separation of Stars and Normal Galaxies Based on Statistical Mixture Modeling with RBF Neural Networks     

Dong-Mei Qin  Ping Guo  Zhan-Yi Hu  Yong-Heng ZhaoNational Laboratory of Pattern Recognition Laboratory  Institute of Automation  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Beijing  dmqin@nlpr.ia.ac.cnDepartment of Computer Sciences  Beijing Normal University  Beijing National Astronomical Observatories  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Beijing 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2003,3(3)

For LAMOST, the largest sky survey program in China, the solution of the problem of automatic discrimination of stars from galaxies by spectra has shown that the results of the PSF test can be significantly refined. However, the problem is made worse when the redshifts of galaxies are not available. We present a new automatic method of star/(normal) galaxy separation, which is based on Statistical Mixture Modeling with Radial Basis Function Neural Networks (SMM-RBFNN). This work is a continuation of our previous one, where active and non-active celestial objects were successfully segregated. By combining the method in this paper and the previous one, stars can now be effectively separated from galaxies and AGNs by their spectra-a major goal of LAMOST, and an indispensable step in any automatic spectrum classification system. In our work, the training set includes standard stellar spectra from Jacoby's spectrum library and simulated galaxy spectra of EO, SO, Sa, Sb types with redshift ranging from 0 to 1  相似文献   

A simple model for the evolution of disc galaxies: the Milky Way     

Thorsten Naab  Jeremiah P. Ostriker 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,366(3):899-917

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Observation of, and temporal variations in, solar p-mode multiplet frequency asymmetries at  ℓ= 2      

W. J. Chaplin  Y. Elsworth  G. R. Isaak  B. A. Miller  R. New  S. Thiery  P. Boumier  A. H. Gabriel 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,343(1):343-352

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Some statistical aspects of estimating the local red clump absolute magnitude     

Chris Koen  Fred Lombard 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,343(1):241-248

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Identification of a 12–17 d time-scale in X-ray observations of GRS 1915+105     

J. Greenhough  S. C. Chapman  S. Chaty  †  R. O. Dendy  G. Rowlands 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,340(3):851-855

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Constraints on the ultraviolet metagalactic emissivity using the Lyα forest     

Avery Meiksin  Martin White 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,342(4):1205-1214

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A Bayesian approach to discrete object detection in astronomical data sets     

M. P. Hobson  C. McLachlan 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,338(3):765-784

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Models for the magnitude‐distribution of brightest cluster galaxies     

J. P. Bernstein †  Suketu P. Bhavsar ‡ 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,322(3):625-630

The brightest, or first-ranked, galaxies (BCGs) in rich clusters show a very small dispersion in luminosity, making them excellent standard candles. This small dispersion raises questions about the nature of BCGs. Are they simply the extremes of normal galaxies formed via a stochastic process, or do they belong to a special class of atypical objects? If they do, are all BCGs special, or do normal galaxies compete for the first rank? To answer these questions, we undertake a statistical study of BCG magnitudes using results from extreme value theory. Two-population models do better than one-population models. A simple scenario where a random boost in the magnitude of a fraction of bright normal galaxies forms a class of atypical galaxies best describes the observed distribution of BCG magnitudes.  相似文献   

Measurement of radiative lifetimes and determination of transition probabilities of astrophysical interest in Ho iii     

E. Biémont  P. Palmeri  P. Quinet  G. Paquin  Z. G. Zhang  G. Somesfalean  S. Svanberg 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,328(4):1085-1090

Lifetimes of six levels belonging to the 4f¹⁰6p configuration of Ho  iii have been measured for the first time using the time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence method. They are compared with multiconfigurational pseudo-relativistic Hartree–Fock calculations. A very good agreement is found. Using the experimental lifetimes and theoretical branching fractions, a first set of transition probabilities of astrophysical interest has been obtained for this ion.  相似文献   

A Faraday rotation template for the Galactic sky     

Patrick Dineen  Peter Coles 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,362(2):403-410

Using a set of compilations of measurements for extragalactic radio sources, we construct all-sky maps of the Faraday rotation produced by the Galactic magnetic field. In order to generate the maps, we treat the radio source positions as a kind of 'mask' and construct combinations of spherical harmonic modes that are orthogonal on the masked sky. As long as relatively small multipoles are used, the resulting maps are quite stable to changes in the selection criteria for the sources, and show clearly the structure of the local Galactic magnetic field. We also suggest the use of these maps as templates for cosmic microwave background (CMB) foreground analysis, illustrating the idea with a cross-correlation analysis between the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( WMAP ) data and our maps. We find a significant cross-correlation, indicating the presence of a significant residual contamination.  相似文献