Recognition of M-type stars in the unclassified spectra of LAMOST DR5 using a hash-learning method. Issue 2 (7th March 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Guo, Y-X; Luo, A-L; Zhang, S; Du, B; Wang, Y-F; Chen, J-J; Zuo, F; Kong, X; Hou, Y-H
• Is Part Of: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Volume 485:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 2167
• Page End: 2178
• Publication Date: 2019-03-07
• Subjects: techniques: spectroscopic -- stars: late-type -- stars: low-mass; Astronomy -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 520.5
• DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz458
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0035-8711

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Our study aims to recognize M-type stars which are classified as 'UNKNOWN' due to poor quality in the Large sky Area Multi-Object fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) DR5 V1. A binary nonlinear hashing algorithm based on Multi-Layer Pseudo-Inverse Learning (ML-PIL) is proposed to effectively learn spectral features for M-type-star detection, which can overcome the bad fitting problem of template matching, particularly for low S/N spectra. The key steps and the performance of the search scheme are presented. A positive data set is obtained by clustering the existing M-type spectra to train the ML-PIL networks. By employing this new method, we find 11 410 M-type spectra out of 642 178 'UNKNOWN' spectra, and provide asupplemental catalogue . Both the supplemental objects and released M-type stars in DR5 V1 are composed of a whole M-type sample, which will be released in the official DR5 to the public in June 2019. All the M-type stars in the data set are classified as giants and dwarfs by two suggested separators: (1) a colour diagram of H versus J − K from 2MASS, (2) line indices CaOH versus CaH1, and the separation is validated with the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (HRD) derived from Gaia DR2. The magnetic activities and kinematics of M dwarfs are also provided with the equivalent width (EW) of the Hα emission line and the astrometric data from Gaia DR2 respectively.