Advances in machine learning and data mining for astronomy

Advances in Machine Learning and Data Mining for Astronomy documents numerous successful collaborations among computer scientists, statisticians, and astronomers who illustrate the application of state-of-the-art machine learning and data mining techniques in astronomy. Due to the massive amount and complexity of data in most scientific disciplines, the material discussed in this text transcends traditional boundaries between various areas in the sciences and computer science.

The book--s introductory part provides context to issues in the astronomical sciences that are also important to health, social, and physical sciences, particularly probabilistic and statistical aspects of classification and cluster analysis. The next part describes a number of astrophysics case studies that leverage a range of machine learning and data mining technologies. In the last part, developers of algorithms and practitioners of machine learning and data mining show how these tools and techniques are used in astronomical applications.

With contributions from leading astronomers and computer scientists, this book is a practical guide to many of the most important developments in machine learning, data mining, and statistics. It explores how these advances can solve current and future problems in astronomy and looks at how they could lead to the creation of entirely new algorithms within the data mining community.

Part I: Foundational Issues
Classification in Astronomy: Past and Present, Eric Feigelson
Searching the Heavens: Astronomy, Computation, Statistics, Data Mining, and Philosophy, Clark Glymour
Probability and Statistics in Astronomical Machine Learning and Data Mining, Jeffrey D. Scargle

Part II: Astronomical Applications
Source Identification
Automated Science Processing for the Fermi Large Area Telescope, James Chiang
CMB Data Analysis, Paniez Paykari and Jean-Luc Starck
Data Mining and Machine Learning in Time-Domain Discovery and Classification, Joshua S. Bloom and Joseph W. Richards
Cross-Identification of Sources: Theory and Practice, Tamás Budavári
The Sky Pixelization for CMB Mapping, O.V. Verkhodanov and A.G. Doroshkevich
Future Sky Surveys: New Discovery Frontiers, J. Anthony Tyson and Kirk D. Borne
Poisson Noise Removal in Spherical Multichannel Images: Application to Fermi Data, Jérémy Schmitt, Jean-Luc Starck, Jalal Fadili, and Seth Digel

Classification
Galaxy Zoo: Morphological Classification and Citizen Science, Lucy Fortson, Karen Masters, Robert Nichol, Kirk D. Borne, Edd Edmondson, Chris Lintoot, Jordan Raddick, Kevin Schawinski, and John Wallin
The Utilization of Classifications in High-Energy Astrophysics Experiments, Bill Atwood
Database-Driven Analyses of Astronomical Spectra, Jan Cami
Weak Gravitational Lensing, Sandrine Pires, Jean-Luc Starck, Adrienne Leonard, and Alexandre Réfrégier
Photometric Redshifts: 50 Years after 345, Tamás Budavári
Galaxy Clusters, Christopher J. Miller

Signal Processing (Time-Series) Analysis
Planet Detection: The Kepler Mission, Jon M. Jenkins, Jeffrey C. Smith, Peter Tenenbaum, Joseph D. Twicken, and Jeffrey Van Cleve
Classification of Variable Objects in Massive Sky Monitoring Surveys, Przemek Woniak, Lukasz Wyrzykowski, and Vasily Belokurov
Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Lee Samuel Finn

The Largest Data Sets
Virtual Observatory and Distributed Data Mining, Kirk D. Borne
Multitree Algorithms for Large-Scale Astrostatistics, William B. March, Arkadas Ozakin, Dongryeol Lee, Ryan Riegel, and Alexander G. Gray

PART III: Machine Learning Methods
Time---Frequency Learning Machines for Nonstationarity Detection Using Surrogates, Pierre Borgnat, Patrick Flandrin, Cédric Richard, André Ferrari, Hassan Amoud, and Paul Honeine
Classification, Nikunj Oza
On the Shoulders of Gauss, Bessel, and Poisson: Links, Chunks, Spheres, and Conditional Models, William D. Heavlin
Data Clustering, Kiri L. Wagstaff
Ensemble Methods: A Review, Matteo Re and Giorgio Valentini
Parallel and Distributed Data Mining for Astronomy Applications, Kamalika Das and Kanishka Bhaduri
Pattern Recognition in Time Series, Jessica Lin, Sheri Williamson, Kirk D. Borne, and David De Barr
Randomized Algorithms for Matrices and Data, Michael W. Mahoney

Index