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The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XV. The photometric redshift estimation for background sources
A. Raichoor, S. Mei, T. Erben +28
The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey is an optical imaging survey covering 104 deg^2 centered on the Virgo cluster. Currently, the complete survey area has been observed in the…
Focus Demo: CANFAR+Skytree: A Cloud Computing and Data Mining System for Astronomy
Nicholas M. Ball
This is a companion Focus Demonstration article to the CANFAR+Skytree poster (Ball 2012), demonstrating the usage of the Skytree machine learning software on the Canadian Advanced…
CANFAR+Skytree: A Cloud Computing and Data Mining System for Astronomy
Nicholas M. Ball
At the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre, we have combined our cloud computing system, CANFAR, with the world's most advanced machine learning software, Skytree, to create the world's…
Discussion on "Techniques for Massive-Data Machine Learning in Astronomy" by A. Gray
Nicholas M. Ball
Astronomy is increasingly encountering two fundamental truths: (1) The field is faced with the task of extracting useful information from extremely large, complex, and high dimensi…
Utilizing Astroinformatics to Maximize the Science Return of the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey
Nicholas M. Ball
The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey is a 104 square degree survey of the Virgo Cluster, carried out using the MegaPrime camera of the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope, from seme…
Data Mining and Machine Learning in Astronomy
Nicholas M. Ball, Robert J. Brunner
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 fie…