Density-based outlier scoring on Kepler data Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Giles D.K.
  2. Walkowicz L.
  3. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

In the present era of large-scale surveys, big data present new challenges to the discovery process for anomalous data. Such data can be indicative of systematic errors, extreme (or rare) forms of known phenomena, or most interestingly, truly novel phenomena that exhibit as-of-yet unobserved behaviours. In this work, we present an outlier scoring methodology to identify and characterize the most promising unusual sources to facilitate discoveries of such anomalous data. We have developed a data mining method based on k-nearest neighbour distance in feature space to efficiently identify the most anomalous light curves. We test variations of this method including using principal components of the feature space, removing select features, the effect of the choice of k, and scoring to subset samples. We evaluate the performance of our scoring on known object classes and find that our scoring consistently scores rare (<1000) object classes higher than common classes. We have applied scoring to all long cadence light curves of Quarters 1-17 of Kepler's prime mission and present outlier scores for all 2.8 million light curves for the roughly 200k objects.

Keywords
  1. surveys
  2. visible-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2020MNRAS.499..524G
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/499/524
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/499/524
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74990524

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http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/499/524
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https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/499/524/table3?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/499/524/table3?

History

2023-11-07T07:53:46Z
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2023-11-07T07:53:46Z
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