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Published September 18, 2006 | Published
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Some Pattern Recognition Challenges in Data-Intensive Astronomy

Abstract

We review some of the recent developments and challenges posed by the data analysis in modern digital sky surveys, which are representative of the information-rich astronomy in the context of Virtual Observatory. Illustrative examples include the problems of an automated star-galaxy classification in complex and heterogeneous panoramic imaging data sets, and an automated, iterative, dynamical classification of transient events detected in synoptic sky surveys. These problems offer good opportunities for productive collaborations between astronomers and applied computer scientists and statisticians, and are representative of the kind of challenges now present in all data-intensive fields. We discuss briefly some emergent types of scalable scientific data analysis systems with a broad applicability.

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© 2006 IEEE. Date of Current Version: 18 September 2006. We are grateful to C. Baltay, D. Rabinowitz and other members of the PQ Survey team, M. Stalzer and the support staff at Caltech CACR, J. Jacob at JPL, and numerous collaborators and colleagues involved in various VO-related projects. This work was supported in part by the U.S. NSF grants AST-0407448, AST- 0326524, CNS-0540369, AST-0122449. SGD also thanks the Ajax Foundation for support, and acknowledges the hospitality of EPFL and Geneva Observatory, where some of this paper was completed.

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