Classification of Chandra sources Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Yang H.
  2. Hare J.
  3. Kargaltsev O.
  4. Volkov I.
  5. Chen S.
  6. Rangelov B.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The rapid increase in serendipitous X-ray source detections requires the development of novel approaches to efficiently explore the nature of X-ray sources. If even a fraction of these sources could be reliably classified, it would enable population studies for various astrophysical source types on a much larger scale than currently possible. Classification of large numbers of sources from multiple classes characterized by multiple properties (features) must be done automatically and supervised machine learning (ML) seems to provide the only feasible approach. We perform classification of Chandra Source Catalog version 2.0 (CSCv2) sources to explore the potential of the ML approach and identify various biases, limitations, and bottlenecks that present themselves in these kinds of studies. We establish the framework and present a flexible and expandable Python pipeline, which can be used and improved by others. We also release the training data set of 2941 X-ray sources with confidently established classes. In addition to providing probabilistic classifications of 66,369 CSCv2 sources (21% of the entire CSCv2 catalog), we perform several narrower-focused case studies (high-mass X-ray binary candidates and X-ray sources within the extent of the H.E.S.S. TeV sources) to demonstrate some possible applications of our ML approach. We also discuss future possible modifications of the presented pipeline, which are expected to lead to substantial improvements in classification confidences.

Keywords
  1. active-galactic-nuclei
  2. x-ray-binary-stars
  3. x-ray-sources
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2022ApJ...941..104Y
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/941/104
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/941/104
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.19410104

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History

2023-07-03T10:02:50Z
Resource record created
2023-07-03T10:02:50Z
Created
2023-10-13T14:33:12Z
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