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类星体UV光谱的无监督聚类分析

Insights into Quasar UV Spectra Using Unsupervised Clustering Analysis

Aycha Tammour, Sarah C. Gallagher, Mark Daley, Gordon T. Richards

摘要:

机器学习可以提供强大的工具来检测多维参数空间中的模式。我们使用K-means -一种简单但功能强大的无监督聚类算法,可以在未标记的数据中挑选出结构-研究来自巴黎斯隆数字巡天第10次数据发布的类星体目录的类星体紫外光谱样本。在大型数据集中检测模式有助于我们深入了解引起类星体观测特性的物理条件和过程。我们使用K均值在红移1.6-2.1的宽吸收线(BAL)和非BAL类星体样本中,在Mg II 2800 A线、C IV 1549 A线和C III] 1908 A混合的等效宽度(EW)、蓝色和红色半高宽(HWHM)的参数空间中找到聚类。使用这种方法,我们成功地恢复了众所周知的相关性,在UV制度,如反相关之间的EW和蓝移的C IV发射线和形状的电离光谱能量分布(SED)探测的强度的He II和Si III]/C III]的比例。我们发现这是特别明显的,当使用C III]的属性来寻找团簇,而那些Mg II证明是不太强的相关性与光谱中的其他线的属性,如C IV的宽度或Si III]/C III]的比例。我们的结论是,无监督聚类方法(如K-means)是在多维数据集中找到“自然”分箱边界的强大方法,并讨论了警告和未来的工作。

英文摘要:

Machine learning can provide powerful tools to detect patterns in multi-dimensional parameter space. We use K-means -a simple yet powerful unsupervised clustering algorithm which picks out structure in unlabeled data- to study a sample of quasar UV spectra from the Quasar Catalog of the 10th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey of Paris et al. (2014). Detecting patterns in large datasets helps us gain insights into the physical conditions and processes giving rise to the observed properties of quasars. We use K-means to find clusters in the parameter space of the equivalent width (EW), the blue- and red-half-width at half-maximum (HWHM) of the Mg II 2800 A line, the C IV 1549 A line, and the C III] 1908 A blend in samples of Broad Absorption-Line (BAL) and non-BAL quasars at redshift 1.6-2.1. Using this method, we successfully recover correlations well-known in the UV regime such as the anti-correlation between the EW and blueshift of the C IV emission line and the shape of the ionizing Spectra Energy distribution (SED) probed by the strength of He II and the Si III]/C III] ratio. We find this to be particularly evident when the properties of C III] are used to find the clusters, while those of Mg II proved to be less strongly correlated with the properties of the other lines in the spectra such as the width of C IV or the Si III]/C III] ratio. We conclude that unsupervised clustering methods (such as K-means) are powerful methods for finding "natural" binning boundaries in multidimensional datasets and discuss caveats and future work.

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