An adaptive parameter estimator for poor-quality spectral data of white dwarfs

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Hauptverfasser: Xie, Duo, Zhang, Jiangchuan, Bu, Yude, Yi, Zhenping, Liu, Meng, Kong, Xiaoming
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author Xie, Duo
Zhang, Jiangchuan
Bu, Yude
Yi, Zhenping
Liu, Meng
Kong, Xiaoming
author_facet Xie, Duo
Zhang, Jiangchuan
Bu, Yude
Yi, Zhenping
Liu, Meng
Kong, Xiaoming
contents White dwarfs represent the end stage for 97% of stars, making precise parameter measurement crucial for understanding stellar evolution. Traditional estimation methods involve fitting spectra or photometry, which require high-quality data. In recent years, machine learning has played a crucial role in processing spectral data due to its speed, automation, and accuracy. However, two common issues have been identified. First, most studies rely on data with high signal-to-noise ratios (SNR > 10), leaving many poor-quality datasets underutilized. Second, existing machine learning models, primarily based on convolutional networks, recurrent networks, and their variants, cannot simultaneously capture both the spatial and sequential information of spectra. To address these challenges, we designed the Estimator Network (EstNet), an advanced algorithm integrating multiple techniques, including Residual Networks, Squeeze and Excitation Attention, Gated Recurrent Units, Adaptive Loss, and Monte-Carlo Dropout Layers. We conducted parameter estimation on 5,965 poor-quality white dwarf spectra (R~1800, SNR~1.17), achieving average percentage errors of 14.86% for effective temperature and 3.97% for surface gravity. These results are significantly superior to other mainstream algorithms and consistent with the outcomes of traditional theoretical spectrum fitting methods. In the future, our algorithms will be applied for large-scale parameter estimation on the Chinese Space Station Telescope and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
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spellingShingle An adaptive parameter estimator for poor-quality spectral data of white dwarfs
Xie, Duo
Zhang, Jiangchuan
Bu, Yude
Yi, Zhenping
Liu, Meng
Kong, Xiaoming
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
White dwarfs represent the end stage for 97% of stars, making precise parameter measurement crucial for understanding stellar evolution. Traditional estimation methods involve fitting spectra or photometry, which require high-quality data. In recent years, machine learning has played a crucial role in processing spectral data due to its speed, automation, and accuracy. However, two common issues have been identified. First, most studies rely on data with high signal-to-noise ratios (SNR > 10), leaving many poor-quality datasets underutilized. Second, existing machine learning models, primarily based on convolutional networks, recurrent networks, and their variants, cannot simultaneously capture both the spatial and sequential information of spectra. To address these challenges, we designed the Estimator Network (EstNet), an advanced algorithm integrating multiple techniques, including Residual Networks, Squeeze and Excitation Attention, Gated Recurrent Units, Adaptive Loss, and Monte-Carlo Dropout Layers. We conducted parameter estimation on 5,965 poor-quality white dwarf spectra (R~1800, SNR~1.17), achieving average percentage errors of 14.86% for effective temperature and 3.97% for surface gravity. These results are significantly superior to other mainstream algorithms and consistent with the outcomes of traditional theoretical spectrum fitting methods. In the future, our algorithms will be applied for large-scale parameter estimation on the Chinese Space Station Telescope and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
title An adaptive parameter estimator for poor-quality spectral data of white dwarfs
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04248