Search Results for author: Melissa Ness

Found 6 papers, 3 papers with code

Disentangled Representation Learning for Astronomical Chemical Tagging

1 code implementation10 Mar 2021 Damien de Mijolla, Melissa Ness, Serena Viti, Adam Wheeler

To remove known non-chemical factors of variation, we develop and implement a neural network architecture that learns a disentangled spectral representation.

Representation Learning

The COMBS Survey -- II. Distinguishing the Metal-Poor Bulge from the Halo Interlopers

no code implementations8 Sep 2020 Madeline Lucey, Keith Hawkins, Melissa Ness, Victor P. Debattista, Alice Luna, Martin Asplund, Thomas Bensby, Luca Casagrande, Sofia Feltzing, Kenneth C. Freeman, Chiaki Kobayashi, Anna F. Marino

Currently, it is unclear if the metal-poor stars in the bulge ([Fe/H] < -1 dex) are merely halo interlopers, a unique accreted population, part of the boxy/peanut-shaped (B/P) bulge or a classical bulge population.

Astrophysics of Galaxies

An unsupervised method for identifying $X$-enriched stars directly from spectra: Li in LAMOST

no code implementations8 Sep 2020 Adam Wheeler, Melissa Ness, David W. Hogg

Stars with peculiar element abundances are important markers of chemical enrichment mechanisms.

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Data-driven derivation of stellar properties from photometric time series data using convolutional neural networks

1 code implementation19 May 2020 Kirsten Blancato, Melissa Ness, Daniel Huber, Yuxi Lu, Ruth Angus

Stellar variability is driven by a multitude of internal physical processes that depend on fundamental stellar properties.

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Actions are weak stellar age indicators in the Milky Way disk

1 code implementation16 Jul 2018 Angus Beane, Melissa Ness, Megan Bedell

We find weak gradients in all actions with stellar age, of (7. 51 +/- 0. 52, -29. 0 +/- 1. 83, 1. 54 +/- 0. 18) kpc km/s/Gyr for J_r, L_z, and J_z, respectively.

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies

The Cannon: A data-driven approach to stellar label determination

no code implementations29 Jan 2015 Melissa Ness, David W. Hogg, Hans-Walter Rix, Anna Y. Q. Ho, Gail Zasowski

New spectroscopic surveys offer the promise of consistent stellar parameters and abundances ('stellar labels') for hundreds of thousands of stars in the Milky Way: this poses a formidable spectral modeling challenge.

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

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