3 papers
astro-ph.IM2025
Transformational astrophysics and exoplanet science with Habitable Worlds Observatory's High Resolution Imager
Vincent Van Eylen, Richard Massey, Saeeda Awan +167
Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be NASA's flagship space telescope of the 2040s, designed to search for life on other planets and to transform broad areas of astrophysics.…
astro-ph.IM2025
Finding rare classes in large datasets: the case of polluted white dwarfs from Gaia XP spectra
Xander Byrne, Amy Bonsor, Laura K. Rogers +1
The Gaia mission's third data release recorded low-resolution spectra for about 100 000 white dwarf candidates. A small subset of these spectra show evidence of characteristic broa…
astro-ph.IM2024
Semi-supervised Spectral Classification of DESI White Dwarfs by Dimensionality Reduction
Xander Byrne, Amy Bonsor, Laura K. Rogers +1
As a new generation of large-sky spectroscopic surveys comes online, the enormous data volume poses unprecedented challenges in classifying spectra. Modern unsupervised techniques…