FliPerClass: In search of solar-like pulsators among TESS targets

Bugnet LA, García RA, Mathur S, Davies GR, Hall OJ, Lund MN, Rendle BM. 2019. FliPerClass: In search of solar-like pulsators among TESS targets. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 624, A79.

Download (ext.)

Journal Article | Published | English

Scopus indexed
Author
Bugnet, Lisa AnnabelleISTA ; García, R. A.; Mathur, S.; Davies, G. R.; Hall, O. J.; Lund, M. N.; Rendle, B. M.
Abstract
The NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is about to provide full-frame images of almost the entire sky. The amount of stellar data to be analysed represents hundreds of millions stars, which is several orders of magnitude more than the number of stars observed by the Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits satellite (CoRoT), and NASA Kepler and K2 missions. We aim at automatically classifying the newly observed stars with near real-time algorithms to better guide the subsequent detailed studies. In this paper, we present a classification algorithm built to recognise solar-like pulsators among classical pulsators. This algorithm relies on the global amount of power contained in the power spectral density (PSD), also known as the flicker in spectral power density (FliPer). Because each type of pulsating star has a characteristic background or pulsation pattern, the shape of the PSD at different frequencies can be used to characterise the type of pulsating star. The FliPer classifier (FliPerClass) uses different FliPer parameters along with the effective temperature as input parameters to feed a ML algorithm in order to automatically classify the pulsating stars observed by TESS. Using noisy TESS-simulated data from the TESS Asteroseismic Science Consortium (TASC), we classify pulsators with a 98% accuracy. Among them, solar-like pulsating stars are recognised with a 99% accuracy, which is of great interest for a further seismic analysis of these stars, which are like our Sun. Similar results are obtained when we trained our classifier and applied it to 27-day subsets of real Kepler data. FliPerClass is part of the large TASC classification pipeline developed by the TESS Data for Asteroseismology (T’DA) classification working group.
Publishing Year
Date Published
2019-04-19
Journal Title
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Publisher
EDP Science
Acknowledgement
We thank the enitre T’DA team for useful comments and discussions, in particular Andrew Tkachenko. We also acknowledge Marc Hon, Keaton Bell, and James Kuszlewicz for useful comments on the manuscript. L.B. and R.A.G. acknowledge the support from PLATO and GOLF CNES grants. S.M. acknowledges support by the Ramon y Cajal fellowship number RYC-2015-17697. O.J.H. and B.M.R. acknowledge the support of the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). M.N.L. acknowledges the support of the ESA PRODEX programme (PEA 4000119301). Funding for the Stellar Astrophysics Centre is provided by the Danish National Research Foundation (Grant DNRF106).
Volume
624
Article Number
A79
ISSN
eISSN
IST-REx-ID

Cite this

Bugnet LA, García RA, Mathur S, et al. FliPerClass: In search of solar-like pulsators among TESS targets. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 2019;624. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201834780
Bugnet, L. A., García, R. A., Mathur, S., Davies, G. R., Hall, O. J., Lund, M. N., & Rendle, B. M. (2019). FliPerClass: In search of solar-like pulsators among TESS targets. Astronomy & Astrophysics. EDP Science. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834780
Bugnet, Lisa Annabelle, R. A. García, S. Mathur, G. R. Davies, O. J. Hall, M. N. Lund, and B. M. Rendle. “FliPerClass: In Search of Solar-like Pulsators among TESS Targets.” Astronomy & Astrophysics. EDP Science, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834780.
L. A. Bugnet et al., “FliPerClass: In search of solar-like pulsators among TESS targets,” Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 624. EDP Science, 2019.
Bugnet LA, García RA, Mathur S, Davies GR, Hall OJ, Lund MN, Rendle BM. 2019. FliPerClass: In search of solar-like pulsators among TESS targets. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 624, A79.
Bugnet, Lisa Annabelle, et al. “FliPerClass: In Search of Solar-like Pulsators among TESS Targets.” Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 624, A79, EDP Science, 2019, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201834780.
All files available under the following license(s):
Copyright Statement:
This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. [...]

Link(s) to Main File(s)
Access Level
OA Open Access

Export

Marked Publications

Open Data ISTA Research Explorer

Sources

arXiv 1902.09854

Search this title in

Google Scholar