Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-11-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, 5 figures, invited talk to appear in C.Sterken & C.Aerts (eds), Proceedings of the ENEAS-PhD School on Variable Star
Scientific paper
How to analyse Terabytes of photometric data, and extract knowledge on variable stars? How to detect variable phenomena? How to combine different photometric bands? Which algorithm to search for periods? How to characterize and classify the detected variable objects? Many questions, but certainly no definitive answers yet. We present several aspects which are at the interface of photometric surveys and variable stars. Fully automated analyses of photometric surveys are still not at an optimized level. We will take the example of a future survey, the Gaia mission project of the European Space Agency, to show different steps of a possible automated pipeline scheme. Principal component analysis can be applied to the Gaia photometric bands. We give some illustrative examples of classification methods such as Support Vector Machine, Self-Organising Map, or Bayesian classifier.
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