Listen "Episode 22: The Stargazing Automata, Part II"
Episode Synopsis
Today we get to talk about everyone’s favorite problem: too much data and too little time! It’s not yet Halloween, but today’s spooky episode is full of GHOSTs and ASSASNs. Alex shares his recent work applying random forests to create a supernatural catalog and predictor of supernova types, and Will describes a tremendous classification effort to automatically sort variable stars.
Alex’s GHOST website + paper:
ghost.ncsa.illinois.edu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09630
Astrobites:
astrobites.org/2020/01/30
Space Sound: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/this-is-the-sound-of-a-forest-changing/499802/
Alex’s GHOST website + paper:
ghost.ncsa.illinois.edu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09630
Astrobites:
astrobites.org/2020/01/30
Space Sound: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/this-is-the-sound-of-a-forest-changing/499802/
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