Broad Absorption Line Quasar catalogues with Supervised Neural Networks

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Scaringi, Simone
Cottis, Christopher E.
Knigge, Christian
Goad, Michael R.
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CLASSIFICATION AND DISCOVERY IN LARGE ASTRONOMICAL SURVEYS | 2008年 / 1082卷
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surveys; catalogues; neural networks; quasars; broad absorption line;
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We have applied a Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) algorithm to SDSS DR5 quasar spectra in order to create a large catalogue of broad absorption line quasars (BALQSOs). We first discuss the problerns with BALQSO catalogues constructed using the conventional balnicity and/or absorption indices (BI and AI), and then describe the supervised LVQ network we have trained to recognise BALQSOs. The resulting BALQSO catalogue should be substantially more robust and complete than BI- or AI-based ones.
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