Development of Novel Statistical Tools for the Analysis of Astronomical Data

Project Information

ASTROSTAT

Grant agreement ID: 691164

DOI

10.3030/691164

Project closed

EC signature date 10 November 2015

Start date 1 January 2016

End date 31 December 2019

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 652 500,00

EU contribution

€ 526 500,00

Coordinated by

IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS
Greece

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (1)

Progress Report 1

Progress report on the activities of the consortium, presenting progress on the different projects, relevant publications, and development of relevant computer codes. This report will present activities related to all work packages, so the deliverable applies to all work packages.

Other (6)

Tool for SN Ia analysis

Software tool to perform a principled statistical analysis of SNIa data in highly structured Bayesian hierarchical models, along with relevant publications.

Tool for extended source analysis

Computational tool for quantifying the significance of marginally resolved structures in Poisson data. These tools will be supported by relevant publications and reports published in the projects website.

Tool for imaging analysis

Computational tool for fitting imaging data of galaxies. These tools will be accompanied by related publications / reports publicized at the project website.

SNe environment properties description

Publication reporting on the properties of supernova environments that are relevant for minimizing their residual scatter around the Hubble diagram

Diagnostic tool for stellar spectral type classification

Computational diagnostic tool for stellar spectral type classification. The tool will be accompanied by relevant publications / reports published in the project website.

Diagnostic tool for galaxy classification

Computational diagnostic tool for galaxy classification based on their spectroscopic properties. The tool will be supported by relevant publications / reports published in the project website.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Website

A website presenting the activities of the consortium, results, and providing a portal to computer codes that are developed through the activities of the program. The website will be updated continuously during the course of the program. This report will present information and results related to all work packages, so the deliverable applies to all work packages.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (38)

On methods for correcting for the look-elsewhere effect in searches for new physics

Author(s): S. Algeri, D.A. van Dyk, J. Conrad, B. Anderson
Published in: Journal of Instrumentation, Issue 11/12, 2016, Page(s) P12010-P12010, ISSN 1748-0221
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/11/12/P12010

DETECTING RELATIVISTIC X-RAY JETS IN HIGH-REDSHIFT QUASARS

Author(s): Kathryn McKeough, Aneta Siemiginowska, C. C. Cheung, Łukasz Stawarz, Vinay L. Kashyap, Nathan Stein, Vasileios Stampoulis, David A. van Dyk, J. F. C. Wardle, N. P. Lee, D. E. Harris, D. A. Schwartz, Davide Donato, Laura Maraschi, Fabrizio Tavecchio
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 833/1, 2016, Page(s) 123, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/123

A global fit of the MSSM with GAMBIT

Author(s): Peter Athron, Csaba Balázs, Torsten Bringmann, Andy Buckley, Marcin Chrząszcz, Jan Conrad, Jonathan M. Cornell, Lars A. Dal, Joakim Edsjö, Ben Farmer, Paul Jackson, Abram Krislock, Anders Kvellestad, Farvah Mahmoudi, Gregory D. Martinez, Antje Putze, Are Raklev, Christopher Rogan, Aldo Saavedra, Christopher Savage, Pat Scott, Nicola Serra, Christoph Weniger, Martin White
Published in: The European Physical Journal C, Issue 77/12, 2017, ISSN 1434-6044
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5196-8

Status of the scalar singlet dark matter model

Author(s): Peter Athron, Csaba Balázs, Torsten Bringmann, Andy Buckley, Marcin Chrząszcz, Jan Conrad, Jonathan M. Cornell, Lars A. Dal, Joakim Edsjö, Ben Farmer, Paul Jackson, Felix Kahlhoefer, Abram Krislock, Anders Kvellestad, James McKay, Farvah Mahmoudi, Gregory D. Martinez, Antje Putze, Are Raklev, Christopher Rogan, Aldo Saavedra, Christopher Savage, Pat Scott, Nicola Serra, Christoph Weniger, Marti
Published in: The European Physical Journal C, Issue 77/8, 2017, ISSN 1434-6044
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5113-1

GAMBIT: the global and modular beyond-the-standard-model inference tool

Author(s): Peter Athron, Csaba Balazs, Torsten Bringmann, Andy Buckley, Marcin Chrząszcz, Jan Conrad, Jonathan M. Cornell, Lars A. Dal, Hugh Dickinson, Joakim Edsjö, Ben Farmer, Tomás E. Gonzalo, Paul Jackson, Abram Krislock, Anders Kvellestad, Johan Lundberg, James McKay, Farvah Mahmoudi, Gregory D. Martinez, Antje Putze, Are Raklev, Joachim Ripken, Christopher Rogan, Aldo Saavedra, Christopher Savage, P
Published in: The European Physical Journal C, Issue 77/11, 2017, ISSN 1434-6044
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5321-8

Comparison of statistical sampling methods with ScannerBit, the GAMBIT scanning module

Author(s): Gregory D. Martinez, James McKay, Ben Farmer, Pat Scott, Elinore Roebber, Antje Putze, Jan Conrad
Published in: The European Physical Journal C, Issue 77/11, 2017, ISSN 1434-6044
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5274-y

Standardizing Type Ia supernovae optical brightness using near-infrared rebrightening time

Author(s): H. Shariff, S. Dhawan, X. Jiao, B. Leibundgut, R. Trotta, D. A. van Dyk
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 463/4, 2016, Page(s) 4311-4316, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2278

STACCATO: a novel solution to supernova photometric classification with biased training sets

Author(s): E. A. Revsbech, R. Trotta, D. A. van Dyk
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 473/3, 2017, Page(s) 3969-3986, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2570

BAHAMAS: NEW ANALYSIS OF TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE REVEALS INCONSISTENCIES WITH STANDARD COSMOLOGY

Author(s): Hikmatali Shariff, Xiyun Jiao, Roberto Trotta, David A. van Dyk
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 827/1, 2016, Page(s) 1, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/1

A hierarchical model for the ages of Galactic halo white dwarfs

Author(s): Shijing Si, David A. van Dyk, Ted von Hippel, Elliot Robinson, Aaron Webster, David Stenning
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 468/4, 2017, Page(s) 4374-4388, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx765

Deep Chandra Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud. II. Timing Analysis of X-Ray Pulsars

Author(s): JaeSub Hong, Vallia Antoniou, Andreas Zezas, Frank Haberl, Manami Sasaki, Jeremy J. Drake, Paul P. Plucinsky, Silas Laycock
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 847/1, 2017, Page(s) 26, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa8953

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS OF TWO STELLAR POPULATIONS IN GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS. II. NGC 5024, NGC 5272, AND NGC 6352

Author(s): R. Wagner-Kaiser, D. C. Stenning, E. Robinson, T. von Hippel, A. Sarajedini, D. A. van Dyk, N. Stein, W. H. Jefferys
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 826/1, 2016, Page(s) 42, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/42

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS OF TWO STELLAR POPULATIONS IN GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS. I. STATISTICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS

Author(s): D. C. Stenning, R. Wagner-Kaiser, E. Robinson, D. A. van Dyk, T. von Hippel, A. Sarajedini, N. Stein
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 826/1, 2016, Page(s) 41, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/41

The Type Ia Supernova Color–Magnitude Relation and Host Galaxy Dust: A Simple Hierarchical Bayesian Model

Author(s): Kaisey S. Mandel, Daniel M. Scolnic, Hikmatali Shariff, Ryan J. Foley, Robert P. Kirshner
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 842/2, 2017, Page(s) 93, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6038

The ACS survey of Galactic globular clusters – XIV. Bayesian single-population analysis of 69 globular clusters

Author(s): R. Wagner-Kaiser, A. Sarajedini, T. von Hippel, D. C. Stenning, D. A. van Dyk, E. Jeffery, E. Robinson, N. Stein, J. Anderson, W. H. Jefferys
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 468/1, 2017, Page(s) 1038-1055, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx544

Bayesian hierarchical modelling of initial–final mass relations acrossstar clusters

Author(s): Shijing Si, David A van Dyk, Ted von Hippel, Elliot Robinson, Elizabeth Jeffery, David C Stenning
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 480/1, 2018, Page(s) 1300-1321, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1913

Incorporating Uncertainties in Atomic Data into the Analysis of Solar and Stellar Observations: A Case Study in Fe xiii

Author(s): Xixi Yu, Giulio Del Zanna, David C. Stenning, Jessi Cisewski-Kehe, Vinay L. Kashyap, Nathan Stein, David A. van Dyk, Harry P. Warren, Mark A. Weber
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 866/2, 2018, Page(s) 146, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aadfdd

Low-luminosity AGN and X-Ray Binary Populations in COSMOS Star-forming Galaxies

Author(s): Francesca M. Fornasini, Francesca Civano, Giuseppina Fabbiano, Martin Elvis, Stefano Marchesi, Takamitsu Miyaji, Andreas Zezas
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 865/1, 2018, Page(s) 43, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aada4e

Extragalactic gamma-ray background from star-forming galaxies: Will empirical scalings suffice?

Author(s): I Komis, V Pavlidou, A Zezas
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 483/3, 2018, Page(s) 4020-4030, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3354

Do sub-galactic regions follow the galaxy-wide X-ray scaling relations? The example of NGC 3310 and NGC 2276

Author(s): K Anastasopoulou, A Zezas, V Gkiokas, K Kovlakas
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 483/1, 2018, Page(s) 711-733, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3131

Projected distances to host galaxy reduce SNIa dispersion

Author(s): Ryley Hill, H Shariff, R Trotta, S Ali-Khan, X Jiao, Y Liu, S-K Moon, W Parker, M Paulus, D A van Dyk, L B Lucy
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 481/2, 2018, Page(s) 2766-2777, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2510

A ∼60 day Super-orbital Period Originating from the Ultraluminous X-Ray Pulsar in M82

Author(s): Murray Brightman, Fiona A. Harrison, Matteo Bachetti, Yanjun Xu, Felix Fürst, Dominic J. Walton, Andrew Ptak, Mihoko Yukita, Andreas Zezas
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 873/2, 2019, Page(s) 115, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab0215

dart _ board: Binary Population Synthesis with Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Author(s): Jeff J. Andrews, Andreas Zezas, Tassos Fragos
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Issue 237/1, 2018, Page(s) 1, ISSN 1538-4365
Publisher: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/aaca30

The Star Formation Reference Survey – III. A multiwavelength view of star formation in nearby galaxies

Author(s): Smriti Mahajan, M L N Ashby, S P Willner, P Barmby, G G Fazio, A Maragkoudakis, S Raychaudhury, A Zezas
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 482/1, 2018, Page(s) 560-577, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2699

Multidimensional data-driven classification of emission-line galaxies

Author(s): Vasileios Stampoulis, David A van Dyk, Vinay L Kashyap, Andreas Zezas
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 485/1, 2019, Page(s) 1085-1102, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz330

A global analysis of dark matter signals from 27 dwarf spheroidal galaxies using 11 years of Fermi-LAT observations

Author(s): Sebastian Hoof, Alex Geringer-Sameth, Roberto Trotta
Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Issue 2020/02, 2020, Page(s) 012-012, ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/02/012

Calibration Concordance for Astronomical Instruments via Multiplicative Shrinkage

Author(s): Yang Chen, Xiao-Li Meng, Xufei Wang, David A. van Dyk, Herman L. Marshall, Vinay L. Kashyap
Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, Issue 114/527, 2019, Page(s) 1018-1037, ISSN 0162-1459
Publisher: American Statistical Association
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2018.1528978

On the Origin of Black Hole Spin in High-mass X-Ray Binaries

Author(s): Ying Qin, Pablo Marchant, Tassos Fragos, Georges Meynet, Vicky Kalogera
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 870/2, 2019, Page(s) L18, ISSN 2041-8213
Publisher: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aaf97b

Deep Chandra Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud. III. Formation Efficiency of High-mass X-Ray Binaries

Author(s): Vallia Antoniou, Andreas Zezas, Jeremy J. Drake, Carles Badenes, Frank Haberl, Nicholas J. Wright, Jaesub Hong, Rosanne Di Stefano, Terrance J. Gaetz, Knox S. Long, Paul P. Plucinsky, Manami Sasaki, Benjamin F. Williams, P. Frank Winkler
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 887/1, 2019, Page(s) 20, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab4a7a

The Complete Evolution of a Neutron-star Binary through a Common Envelope Phase Using 1D Hydrodynamic Simulations

Author(s): Tassos Fragos, Jeff J. Andrews, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Georges Meynet, Vicky Kalogera, Ronald E. Taam, Andreas Zezas
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 883/2, 2019, Page(s) L45, ISSN 2041-8213
Publisher: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab40d1

Testing One Hypothesis Multiple Times: The Multidimensional Case

Author(s): Sara Algeri, David A. van Dyk
Published in: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2020, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 1061-8600
Publisher: American Statistical Association
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2019.1677474

Bayesian reconstruction of the Milky Way dark matter distribution

Author(s): E.V. Karukes, M. Benito, F. Iocco, R. Trotta, A. Geringer-Sameth
Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Issue 2019/09, 2019, Page(s) 046-046, ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/09/046

A diagnostic tool for the identification of supernova remnants

Author(s): M Kopsacheili, A Zezas, I Leonidaki
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 491/1, 2020, Page(s) 889-902, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2594

Double neutron star formation: merger times, systemic velocities, and travel distances

Author(s): Jeff J Andrews, Andreas Zezas
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 486/3, 2019, Page(s) 3213-3227, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1066

The origin of spin in binary black holes

Author(s): Simone S. Bavera, Tassos Fragos, Ying Qin, Emmanouil Zapartas, Coenraad J. Neijssel, Ilya Mandel, Aldo Batta, Sebastian M. Gaebel, Chase Kimball, Simon Stevenson
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 635, 2020, Page(s) A97, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936204

The spin of the second-born black hole in coalescing binary black holes

Author(s): Y. Qin, T. Fragos, G. Meynet, J. Andrews, M. Sørensen, H. F. Song
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 616, 2018, Page(s) A28, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201832839

Young Stellar Objects in the Massive Star-forming Regions W51 and W43

Author(s): G. Saral, J. L. Hora, M. Audard, X. P. Koenig, J. R. Mart?nez-Galarza, F. Motte, Q. Nguyen-Luong, A. T. Saygac, H. A. Smith
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 839/2, 2017, Page(s) 108, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6575

Sub-galactic scaling relations between X-ray luminosity, star formation rate, and stellar mass

Author(s): K Kouroumpatzakis, A Zezas, P Sell, K Kovlakas, P Bonfini, S P Willner, M L N Ashby, A Maragkoudakis, T H Jarrett
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 494/4, 2020, Page(s) 5967-5984, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1063

Conference proceedings (1)

X-raying the evolution of SN 1987A

Author(s): Vinay L. Kashyap,David van Dyk, Katy McKeough, Frank Primini Diab Jerius, Akshay Gowrishankar, Aneta Siemiginowska, Andreas Zezas$
Published in: IAUS331 SN 1987A 30 Years Later, 2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press