Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Physical Sciences
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
9-1999
Abstract/Description
Modern spectroscopic surveys and automated classifiers are becoming so inextricably linked that it is difficult even to summarize one without discussing the other. Some of the automated classifiers are being built because of current analysis needs, though with a clear anticipation of future, larger surveys. Other automated classifiers are being designed specifically for future surveys. Automated classifiers may be applied to databases already in hand, to real-time analysis at the telescope, or one day to on-board satellite analysis where the raw data are too bulky to save and transmit. In addition, many current spectroscopic surveys target galaxies. These surveys may contain stars either by accident or by a purposeful, but minority, assignment of input slits or fibers to stars. Nonetheless, these surveys still represent vast sources of stellar spectral data. Our review embarks by discussing current work, both on automated stellar classification and surveys, and then finishes with plans and portents for the future.
Publication Title
IAU triennial reports
Scholarly Commons Citation
Hippel, T. v., & Bailer-Jones, C. A. (1999). A Review of Automated Stellar Spectral Classification and Surveys. IAU triennial reports, (). Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/publication/2070
Additional Information
Dr. von Hippel was not affiliated with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the time this paper was published.