Towards an Automated Classification of Transient Events in Synoptic Sky Surveys
produced by: NASA Ames Video and Graphics Branch
published: June 27, 2012, recorded: October 2011, views: 2475
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We describe the development of a system for an automated, iterative, real‐time classification of transient events discovered in synoptic sky surveys. The system under development incorporates a number of Machine Learning techniques, mostly using Bayesian approaches, due to the sparse nature, heterogeneity, and variable incompleteness of the available data. The classifications are improved iteratively as the new measurements are obtained. One novel feature is the development of an automated follow‐up recommendation engine, that suggest those measurements that would be the most advantageous in terms of resolving classification ambiguities and/or characterization of the astrophysically most interesting objects, given a set of available follow‐up assets and their cost functions. This illustrates the symbiotic relationship of astronomy and applied computer science through the emerging discipline of AstroInformatics.
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