J-PLUS DR3: Galaxy-Star-Quasar classification

Abstract

The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS) is a 12-band photometric survey using the 83-cm JAST telescope. Data Release 3 includes 47.4 million sources. J-PLUS DR3 only provides star-galaxy classification so that quasars are not identified from the other sources. Given the size of the dataset, machine learning methods could provide a valid alternative classification and a solution to the classification of quasars. Our objective is to classify J-PLUS DR3 sources into galaxies, stars and quasars, outperforming the available classifiers in each class. We use an automated machine learning tool called TPOT to find an optimized pipeline to perform the classification. The supervised machine learning algorithms are trained on the crossmatch with SDSS DR18, LAMOST DR8 and Gaia. We checked that the training set of about 660 thousand galaxies, 1.2 million stars and 270 thousand quasars is both representative and contain a minimal presence of contaminants (less than 1%). We considered 37 features: the twelve photometric bands with respective errors, six colors, four morphological parameters, galactic extinction with its error and the PSF relative to the corresponding pointing. With TPOT genetic algorithm, we found that XGBoost provides the best performance: the AUC for galaxies, stars and quasars is above 0.99 and the average precision is above 0.99 for galaxies and stars and 0.96 for quasars. XGBoost outperforms the classifiers already provided in J-PLUS DR3 and also classifies quasars.

19 pages, 22 figures

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