Steps towards the development of an automatic classifier for astronomical sources

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4847, Issue , 2002, Pages 379-390

  Thiebaut, Carole ^a,c   Boër, Michel ^a   Roques, Sylvie ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c IRAP   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic classification; Light curve analysis; Neural networks; Time domain analysis; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GALAXIES; MAPPING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFIERS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0037625743     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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