Random forests as a viable method to select and discover high-redshift quasars
We present a method of selecting quasars up to redshift ≈6 with random forests, a supervised machine-learning method, applied to Pan-STARRS1 and WISE data. We find that, thanks to the increasing set of known quasars, we can assemble a training set that enables supervised machine-learning algorithms...
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| Language: | English |
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2021 July 27
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The astronomical journal
Year: 2021, Volume: 162, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-18 |
| ISSN: | 1538-3881 |
| DOI: | 10.3847/1538-3881/ac0254 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0254
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| Author Notes: | Lukas Wenzl, Jan-Torge Schindler, Xiaohui Fan, Irham Taufik Andika, Eduardo Bañados, Roberto Decarli, Knud Jahnke, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Masafusa Onoue, Bram P. Venemans, Fabian Walter, and Jinyi Yang |
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