Clustering large number of extragalactic spectra of galaxies and quasars through canopies

DOI10.1080/03610926.2013.848286MaRDI QIDQ2815933zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tuli de, Didier Fraix-Burnet, Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay

Publication date 30 June 2016

Published in Communications in Statistics. Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.3729

zbMATH Keywords

clusteringlarge dataspectragalaxycanopy method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Statistical astronomy (85A35)

Abstract: Cluster analysis is the distribution of objects into different groups or more precisely the partitioning of a data set into subsets (clusters) so that the data in subsets share some common trait according to some distance measure. Unlike classi cation, in clustering one has to rst decide the optimum number of clusters and then assign the objects into different clusters. Solution of such problems for a large number of high dimensional data points is quite complicated and most of the existing algorithms will not perform properly. In the present work a new clustering technique applicable to large data set has been used to cluster the spectra of 702248 galaxies and quasars having 1540 points in wavelength range imposed by the instrument. The proposed technique has successfully discovered ve clusters from this 702248X1540 data matrix.

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