用机器学习自动分类低质量恒星,准确率达95.5%。
Classifying Cool Dwarfs: Comprehensive Spectral Typing of Field and Peculiar Dwarfs Using Machine Learning
- 以分箱通量为输入,用KNN模型实现光谱类型自动分类
- 95.5%样本分类误差在±1个光谱类型内,重力与金属丰度分类准确率89.5%
- 适用于高信噪比(>60)的近红外光谱,适合大规模巡天数据
低质量恒星和棕矮星(光谱类型M0及更晚)在研究恒星与亚恒星天体过程及分布中具有重要意义,可延伸至行星质量物体。当前分类仍依赖人工检查光谱特征、等值宽度测量或窄/宽波段指数。随着盖亚、斯隆、SPHEREx等大型光谱巡天产生数百万条光谱,机器学习方法正变得愈发重要。本文利用位于美国红外望远镜设施上的SpeX仪器获取的低分辨率(R≈120)近红外光谱(M0–T9),研究机器学习在光谱类型分类中的应用,特别关注晚期矮星的重力与金属丰度子类分类。采用分箱通量作为输入特征,对比了随机森林(RF)、支持向量机(SVM)与K近邻(KNN)模型的性能。分析不同归一化方式的影响,并评估各光谱区域对重力与金属丰度分类的重要性。最佳模型(KNN)将95.5±0.6%的源分类到±1个光谱类型内,重力与金属丰度子类分类准确率达89.5±0.9%。结果显示,信噪比≥60的源分类准确率超过95%。此外,zy波段在RF模型中作用最显著,FeH和TiO具有最高特征重要性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Low-mass stars and brown dwarfs -- spectral types (SpTs) M0 and later -- play a significant role in studying stellar and substellar processes and demographics, reaching down to planetary-mass objects. Currently, the classification of these sources remains heavily reliant on visual inspection of spectral features, equivalent width measurements, or narrow-/wide-band spectral indices. Recent advances in machine learning (ML) methods offer automated approaches for spectral typing, which are becoming increasingly important as large spectroscopic surveys such as Gaia, SDSS, and SPHEREx generate datasets containing millions of spectra. We investigate the application of ML in spectral type classification on low-resolution (R $\sim$ 120) near-infrared spectra of M0--T9 dwarfs obtained with the SpeX instrument on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. We specifically aim to classify the gravity- and metallicity-dependent subclasses for late-type dwarfs. We used binned fluxes as input features and compared the efficacy of spectral type estimators built using Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) models. We tested the influence of different normalizations and analyzed the relative importance of different spectral regions for surface gravity and metallicity subclass classification. Our best-performing model (using KNN) classifies 95.5 $\pm$ 0.6% of sources to within $\pm$1 SpT, and assigns surface gravity and metallicity subclasses with 89.5 $\pm$ 0.9% accuracy. We test the dependence of signal-to-noise ratio on classification accuracy and find sources with SNR $\gtrsim$ 60 have $\gtrsim$ 95% accuracy. We also find that zy-band plays the most prominent role in the RF model, with FeH and TiO having the highest feature importance.
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