Search for unusual objects in the WISE Survey
A. Solarz, M. Bilicki, A. Pollo

TL;DR
This paper introduces a new outlier detection method using one-class SVMs applied to WISE data, identifying potential AGN candidates and revealing environmental differences between obscured and unobscured AGN.
Contribution
The study presents a novel automated outlier detection approach with one-class SVMs for astronomical data, applied to WISE survey data for the first time.
Findings
Identified ~40,000 sources with abnormal patterns as AGN candidates.
Found unobscured AGN candidates in less massive dark matter haloes.
Obscured and unobscured AGN candidates occupy different environments.
Abstract
Automatic source detection and classification tools based on machine learning (ML) algorithms are growing in popularity due to their efficiency when dealing with large amounts of data simultaneously and their ability to work in multidimensional parameter spaces. In this work, we present a new, automated method of outlier selection based on support vector machine (SVM) algorithm called one-class SVM (OCSVM), which uses the training data as one class to construct a model of 'normality' in order to recognize novel points. We test the performance of OCSVM algorithm on \textit{Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)} data trained on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) sources. Among others, we find sources with abnormal patterns which can be associated with obscured and unobscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) source candidates. We present the preliminary estimation of the…
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Taxonomy
TopicsGamma-ray bursts and supernovae · Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation · Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
