Automatic classification of variable stars in catalogs with missing data

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 777, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Pichara, Karim ^a,b,c   Protopapas, Pavlos ^b,d  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Milky Way Millennium Nucleus ^*  (Chile)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

methods: data analysis; stars: statistics; stars: variables: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886649740     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/777/2/83     Document Type: Article

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