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Main Author: Morales-Gil, Ignacio
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02403
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author Morales-Gil, Ignacio
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contents RS Oph is a recurrent nova, a kind of cataclismic variable that shows bursts in a period approximately shorter than a century. Persistent homology, a technique from topological data analysis, studies the evolution of topological features of a simplicial complex composed of the data points or an embedding of them, as some distance parameter is varied. For this work I trained a supervised learning model based on several featurizations, namely persistence landscapes, Carlsson coordinates, persistent images, and template functions, of the persistence diagrams of sections of the lightcurve of RS Oph. A tenfold cross validation of the model based on one of the featurizations, persistence landscapes, consistently shows high recalls and accuracies. This method serves the purpose of predicting whether RS Oph is bursting within a year.
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spellingShingle Predictability of bursts of a recurrent nova using topological data analysis and machine learning
Morales-Gil, Ignacio
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
RS Oph is a recurrent nova, a kind of cataclismic variable that shows bursts in a period approximately shorter than a century. Persistent homology, a technique from topological data analysis, studies the evolution of topological features of a simplicial complex composed of the data points or an embedding of them, as some distance parameter is varied. For this work I trained a supervised learning model based on several featurizations, namely persistence landscapes, Carlsson coordinates, persistent images, and template functions, of the persistence diagrams of sections of the lightcurve of RS Oph. A tenfold cross validation of the model based on one of the featurizations, persistence landscapes, consistently shows high recalls and accuracies. This method serves the purpose of predicting whether RS Oph is bursting within a year.
title Predictability of bursts of a recurrent nova using topological data analysis and machine learning
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02403