SPT: Spectral Transformer for Red Giant Stars Age and Mass Estimation

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Autori principali: Zhang, Mengmeng, Wu, Fan, Bu, Yude, Li, Shanshan, Yi, Zhenping, Liu, Meng, Kong, Xiaoming
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author Zhang, Mengmeng
Wu, Fan
Bu, Yude
Li, Shanshan
Yi, Zhenping
Liu, Meng
Kong, Xiaoming
author_facet Zhang, Mengmeng
Wu, Fan
Bu, Yude
Li, Shanshan
Yi, Zhenping
Liu, Meng
Kong, Xiaoming
contents The age and mass of red giants are essential for understanding the structure and evolution of the Milky Way. Traditional isochrone methods for these estimations are inherently limited due to overlapping isochrones in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, while asteroseismology, though more precise, requires high-precision, long-term observations. In response to these challenges, we developed a novel framework, Spectral Transformer (SPT), to predict the age and mass of red giants aligned with asteroseismology from their spectra. A key component of SPT, the Multi-head Hadamard Self-Attention mechanism, designed specifically for spectra, can capture complex relationships across different wavelength. Further, we introduced a Mahalanobis distance-based loss function to address scale imbalance and interaction mode loss, and incorporated Monte Carlo dropout for quantitative analysis of prediction uncertainty.Trained and tested on 3,880 red giant spectra from LAMOST, the SPT achieved remarkable age and mass estimations with average percentage errors of 17.64% and 6.61%, respectively, and provided uncertainties for each corresponding prediction. The results significantly outperform those of traditional machine learning algorithms and demonstrate a high level of consistency with asteroseismology methods and isochrone fitting techniques. In the future, our work will leverage datasets from the Chinese Space Station Telescope and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope to enhance the precision of the model and broaden its applicability in the field of astronomy and astrophysics.
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spellingShingle SPT: Spectral Transformer for Red Giant Stars Age and Mass Estimation
Zhang, Mengmeng
Wu, Fan
Bu, Yude
Li, Shanshan
Yi, Zhenping
Liu, Meng
Kong, Xiaoming
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Machine Learning
The age and mass of red giants are essential for understanding the structure and evolution of the Milky Way. Traditional isochrone methods for these estimations are inherently limited due to overlapping isochrones in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, while asteroseismology, though more precise, requires high-precision, long-term observations. In response to these challenges, we developed a novel framework, Spectral Transformer (SPT), to predict the age and mass of red giants aligned with asteroseismology from their spectra. A key component of SPT, the Multi-head Hadamard Self-Attention mechanism, designed specifically for spectra, can capture complex relationships across different wavelength. Further, we introduced a Mahalanobis distance-based loss function to address scale imbalance and interaction mode loss, and incorporated Monte Carlo dropout for quantitative analysis of prediction uncertainty.Trained and tested on 3,880 red giant spectra from LAMOST, the SPT achieved remarkable age and mass estimations with average percentage errors of 17.64% and 6.61%, respectively, and provided uncertainties for each corresponding prediction. The results significantly outperform those of traditional machine learning algorithms and demonstrate a high level of consistency with asteroseismology methods and isochrone fitting techniques. In the future, our work will leverage datasets from the Chinese Space Station Telescope and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope to enhance the precision of the model and broaden its applicability in the field of astronomy and astrophysics.
title SPT: Spectral Transformer for Red Giant Stars Age and Mass Estimation
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04900