Application of the Gaussian mixture model in pulsar astronomy - pulsar classification and candidates ranking for the Fermi 2FGL catalogue

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 424, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2832-2840

  Lee, K J ^a   Guillemot, L ^a   Yue, Y L ^b   Kramer, M ^a,c   Champion, D J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: stars; Methods: statistical; Pulsars: general

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GAMMA RAYS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE;

BAYESIAN; DATA CLASSIFICATION; EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE; GAMMA RAYS: STARS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; MILLISECOND PULSARS; POINT-SOURCES; PULSARS: GENERAL;

PULSARS;

EID: 84864953072     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21413.x     Document Type: Article

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