Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-04-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in AJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/118398
We demonstrate the use of a variant of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for discrimination problems in astronomy. This variant of PCA is shown to provide the best linear discrimination between data classes. As a test case, we present the problem of discrimination between K giant and K dwarf stars from intermediate resolution spectra near the Mg `b' feature. The discrimination procedure is trained on a set of 24 standard K giants and 24 standard K dwarfs, and then used to perform giant - dwarf classification on a sample of approximately 1500 field K stars of unknown luminosity class which were initially classified visually. For the highest S/N spectra, the automated classification agrees very well (at the 90 - 95% level) with the visual classification. Most importantly, however, the automated method is found to classify stars in a repeatable fashion, and, according to numerical experiments, is very robust to signal to noise (S/N) degradation.
Ibata Rodrigo
Irwin Michael
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