arXiv Machine Learning

Classification of Astronomical Spectra Using PCA-Compressed Flux and Inverse-Variance Features

arXiv:2606. 13978v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper evaluates a signal-processing and supervised-learning pipeline for classifying SDSS DR17 astronomical spectra into stars, galaxies, and quasars.

arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

Self-Supervised Representation Learning: From Spectral Foundation Models to Auroral Emission Spectra

The paper presents a self‑supervised approach to learning representations of auroral emission spectra using a 1D Vision Transformer trained with a masked autoencoder on 223,000 unlabelled spectra. The pretrained model recovers key emission‑line intensity ratios with high accuracy (R² = 0.91) and, with a single linear probe, matches expert‑designed feature classifiers. When fine‑tuned, it surpasses the previous supervised auroral classifier (macro‑AP 88.5 vs. 77.8) and achieves a 0.870 mAP, outperforming a model trained from scratch by 0.159 using only 10 % of the labels, while attribution reveals reliance on N₂⁺ bands.

By Matthieu Le Lain, Ga\"el Cessateur, S\'ebastien Lef\`evre
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 24

Efficient reduction of stellar contamination and noise in planetary transmission spectra using neural networks

arXiv:2602. 10330v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Context: The characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres has been transformed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), whose infrared sensitivity enables transmission spectroscopy at unprecedented precision.

By David S. Duque-Casta\~no, Lauren Flor-Torres, Jorge I. Zuluaga
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 21

Bayesian classification of astronomical spectra with class uncertainties

The paper presents a probabilistic machine‑learning framework for classifying low‑ and high‑resolution stellar and extragalactic spectra, targeting the upcoming 4MOST survey. Four approaches were evaluated—CNNs, Dirichlet distribution, Monte Carlo dropout (MCD), and Bayesian neural networks with variational inference—using SDSS data and a 4MOST mock dataset. The MCD‑augmented CNN achieved the highest accuracies (92.6% on SDSS, 93.9% on mock data) while also delivering well‑calibrated uncertainty estimates with minimal extra computational cost.

By Simon Barton, Martin Sahl\'en, Andreas Korn, Christian Glaser
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

Leveraging Multimodality for Real-Time Classification of Transients and Variables found by the Zwicky Transient Facility

arXiv:2607. 00228v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern time-domain surveys such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) generate hundreds of thousands of alerts each night, making real-time decisions for follow-up observations a central challenge in time-domain astronomy.

By Ved G. Shah, Nabeel Rehemtulla, Adam A. Miller, Sushant Sharma Chaudhary, Michael W. Coughlin, Antoine Le Calloch, Matthew J. Graham, Joahan Castaneda Jaimes, Theophile Jegou du Laz, Ashish A. Mahabal, Frank J. Masci, Josiah Purdum, Reed Riddle, Jesper Sollerman, Anastasia Wei, Mansi M. Kasliwal