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| author | Gökçen, Mine Garcia-Sciveres, Maurice Ju, Xiangyang |
| author_facet | Gökçen, Mine Garcia-Sciveres, Maurice Ju, Xiangyang |
| contents | We apply methods of particle track reconstruction in High Energy Physics (HEP) to the search for distinct stellar populations in the Milky Way, using the Gaia EDR3 data set. This was motivated by analogies between the 3D space points in HEP detectors and the positions of stars (which are also points in a coordinate space) and the way collections of space points correspond to particle trajectories in the HEP, while collections of stars from distinct populations (such as stellar streams) can resemble tracks. Track reconstruction consists of multiple steps, the first one being seeding. In this note, we describe our implementation and results of the seeding step to the search for distinct stellar populations, and we indicate how the next steps will proceed. Our seeding method uses machine learning tools from the FAISS library, such as the k-nearest neighbors (kNN) search. |
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| spellingShingle | An Application of HEP Track Seeding to Astrophysical Data Gökçen, Mine Garcia-Sciveres, Maurice Ju, Xiangyang Astrophysics of Galaxies We apply methods of particle track reconstruction in High Energy Physics (HEP) to the search for distinct stellar populations in the Milky Way, using the Gaia EDR3 data set. This was motivated by analogies between the 3D space points in HEP detectors and the positions of stars (which are also points in a coordinate space) and the way collections of space points correspond to particle trajectories in the HEP, while collections of stars from distinct populations (such as stellar streams) can resemble tracks. Track reconstruction consists of multiple steps, the first one being seeding. In this note, we describe our implementation and results of the seeding step to the search for distinct stellar populations, and we indicate how the next steps will proceed. Our seeding method uses machine learning tools from the FAISS library, such as the k-nearest neighbors (kNN) search. |
| title | An Application of HEP Track Seeding to Astrophysical Data |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06011 |