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most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

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astro-ph.IM2018★ 38 cited

Star-galaxy classification in the Dark Energy Survey Y1 dataset

I. Sevilla-Noarbe, B. Hoyle, M. J. Marchã +75

We perform a comparison of different approaches to star-galaxy classification using the broad-band photometric data from Year 1 of the Dark Energy Survey. This is done by performin…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 5 cited

Vizic: A Jupyter-based Interactive Visualization Tool for Astronomical Catalogs

W. Yu, M. Carrasco Kind, R. J. Brunner

The ever-growing datasets in observational astronomy have challenged scientists in many aspects, including an efficient and interactive data exploration and visualization. Many too…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 219 cited

Star-galaxy Classification Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Edward J. Kim, Robert J. Brunner

Most existing star-galaxy classifiers use the reduced summary information from catalogs, requiring careful feature extraction and selection. The latest advances in machine learning…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 3 cited

Creating updated, scientifically-calibrated mosaic images for the RC3 catalogue

Jung Lin Lee, Robert J. Brunner

The Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies (RC3) is a reasonably complete listing of 23,011 nearby, large, bright galaxies. By using the final imaging data release from the S…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 50 cited

A Hybrid Ensemble Learning Approach to Star-Galaxy Classification

Edward J. Kim, Robert J. Brunner, Matias Carrasco Kind

There exist a variety of star-galaxy classification techniques, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. In this paper, we present a novel meta-classification framework that c…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 180 cited

Photometric redshift analysis in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

C. Sánchez, M. Carrasco Kind, H. Lin +74

We present results from a study of the photometric redshift performance of the Dark Energy Survey (DES), using the early data from a Science Verification (SV) period of observation…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 119 cited

SOMz: photometric redshift PDFs with self organizing maps and random atlas

M. Carrasco Kind, R. J. Brunner

In this paper we explore the applicability of the unsupervised machine learning technique of Self Organizing Maps (SOM) to estimate galaxy photometric redshift probability density…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 924 cited

LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

LSST Science Collaboration, Paul A. Abell, Julius Allison +245

A survey that can cover the sky in optical bands over wide fields to faint magnitudes with a fast cadence will enable many of the exciting science opportunities of the next decade.…