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Paper: Using an Artificial Neural Network to Classify Multi-component Emission Line Fits
Volume: 512, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXV
Page: 221
Authors: Hampton, E. J.; Groves, B.; Medling, A.; Davies, R.; Dopita, M.; Ho, I.-T.; Kaasinen, M.; Kewley, L.; Leslie, S.; Sharp, R.; Sweet, S. M.; Thomas, A. D.; SAMI Survey Team, S7 Team
Abstract: We present The Machine, an artificial neural network (ANN) capable of differentiating between the numbers of Gaussian components needed to describe the emission lines of Integral Field Spectroscopic (IFS) observations. Here we show the preliminary results of the S7 first data release (Siding Spring Southern Seyfert Spectroscopic Snapshot Survey, Dopita et al. 2015) and SAMI Galaxy Survey (Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral Field Unit, Croom et al. 2012) to classify whether the emission lines in each spatial pixel are composed of 1, 2, or 3 different Gaussian components. Previously this classification has been done by individual people, taking an hour per galaxy. This time investment is no longer feasible with the large spectroscopic surveys coming online.
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