Baronchelli, I. and Scarlata, C. M. and Rodighiero, G. and Rodríguez-Muñoz, L. and Bonato, M. and Bagley, M. and Henry, A. and Rafelski, M. and Malkan, M. and Colbert, J. and Dai, Y. S. and Dickinson, H. and Mancini, C. and Mehta, V. and Morselli, L. and Teplitz, H. I. (2020) Identification of Single Spectral Lines through Supervised Machine Learning in a Large HST Survey (WISP): A Pilot Study for Euclid and WFIRST. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 249 (1). Art. No. 12. ISSN 1538-4365. doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ab9a3a. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200713-143726791
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Abstract
Future surveys focusing on understanding the nature of dark energy (e.g., Euclid and WFIRST) will cover large fractions of the extragalactic sky in near-IR slitless spectroscopy. These surveys will detect a large number of galaxies that will have only one emission line in the covered spectral range. In order to maximize the scientific return of these missions, it is imperative that single emission lines are correctly identified. Using a supervised machine-learning approach, we classified a sample of single emission lines extracted from the WFC3 IR Spectroscopic Parallel survey, one of the closest existing analogs to future slitless surveys. Our automatic software integrates a spectral energy distribution (SED)-fitting strategy with additional independent sources of information. We calibrated it and tested it on a "gold" sample of securely identified objects with multiple lines detected. The algorithm correctly classifies real emission lines with an accuracy of 82.6%, whereas the accuracy of the SED-fitting technique alone is low (~50%) due to the limited amount of photometric data available (≤6 bands). While not specifically designed for the Euclid and WFIRST surveys, the algorithm represents an important precursor of similar algorithms to be used in these future missions.
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Additional Information: | © 2020 The American Astronomical Society. Received 2019 November 28; revised 2020 May 25; accepted 2020 June 5; published 2020 July 13. I.B. thanks Alvio Renzini, Alberto Franceschini, Paolo Cassata, and Andrea Grazian for the useful discussion about the thematics discussed in the paper. C.S. acknowledges financial support from NASA, through STScI program number HST-AR-14311.001-A. STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555. M.B. acknowledges support from INAF under PRIN SKA/CTA FORECaST and from the Ministero degli Affari Esteri della Cooperazione Internazionale—Direzione Generale per la Promozione del Sistema Paese Progetto di Grande Rilevanza ZA18GR02. M.R. acknowledges financial support from NASA, through a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), program number HST-GO-14178.026-A. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Group: | Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | Spectroscopy ; Algorithms ; Maximum likelihood estimation ; Spectral line identification ; Redshift surveys | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Classification Code: | Unified Astronomy Thesaurus concepts: Spectroscopy (1558); Algorithms (1883); Maximum likelihood estimation (1901); Spectral line identification (2073); Redshift surveys (1378) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4365/ab9a3a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | I. Baronchelli et al 2020 ApJS 249 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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