Episode 22: The Stargazing Automata, Part II

Today we get to talk about everyone’s favorite problem: too much data and too little time! It’s not yet Halloween, but today’s spooky episode is full of GHOSTs and ASSASNs. Alex shares his recent work applying random forests to create a supernatural catalog and predictor of supernova types, and Will describes a tremendous classification effort to automatically sort variable stars.

 

Alex’s GHOST website + paper: 

ghost.ncsa.illinois.edu

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09630

 

Astrobites: 

astrobites.org/2020/01/30

Space Sound: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/this-is-the-sound-of-a-forest-changing/499802/