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Has anyone used machine learning to help identify and track stars in the data set they mention? I'd love to contribute to space exploration as a software engine
by choxi 7y ago
Has anyone used machine learning to help identify and track stars in the data set they mention? I'd love to contribute to space exploration as a software engineer, and building systems to analyze the data seems like one promising approach.
- ismail 7y agoI had this exact thought as I was reading this. I wonder if ML could be used to speed up the process and look for anomalies - both appearances and disappearances. Someone in our team did his PhD in machine vision. Will have a chat with him to hear his thoughts. Anyone else have any thoughts? Also where could these images be accessed?
- jandrese 7y agoIt doesn't seem like you need any sort of machine learning. Just a telescope hooked to a computer that tracks changes in the night sky over time. Like 2 weeks ago there was a magnitude 7 star in this spot and now it is magnitude 9.
- karthikb 7y agoTake a look here: https://arxiv.org/search/?query=astronomy+machine+learning&searchtype=all&source=header https://arxiv.org/search/?query=astronomy+machine+learning&s... Plenty of ML work being applied to astronomy. Much of the code is open source too so you can dive right in and contribute. Here's a recent survey you might start with: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.02934.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.02934.pdf
- teamonkey 7y agoI'm not sure what advantage ML would bring to this particular task, but the recent GAIA survey dataset has very accurate readings of position and motion in 3D space for all visible objects and it would be interesting to see if there are any anomalies.