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There Are (super)Giants in the Sky: Searching for Misidentified Massive Stars in Algorithmically-Selected Quasar Catalogs

arXiv:1701.07888 · doi:10.1017/S174392131700240X

Abstract

Thanks to incredible advances in instrumentation, surveys like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have been able to find and catalog billions of objects, ranging from local M dwarfs to distant quasars. Machine learning algorithms have greatly aided in the effort to classify these objects; however, there are regimes where these algorithms fail, where interesting oddities may be found. We present here an X-ray bright quasar misidentified as a red supergiant/X-ray binary, and a subsequent search of the SDSS quasar catalog for X-ray bright stars misidentified as quasars.

4 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to the Proceedings of the 329th International Astronomical Union Symposium: The Lives and Death-Throes of Massive Stars, X-ray Splinter Session

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