Development of Novel Statistical Tools for the Analysis of Astronomical Data

Informations projet

ASTROSTAT

N° de convention de subvention: 691164

DOI

10.3030/691164

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 10 Novembre 2015

Date de début 1 Janvier 2016

Date de fin 31 Decembre 2019

Financé au titre de

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coût total

€ 652 500,00

Contribution de l’UE

€ 526 500,00

Coordonné par

IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS
Greece

CORDIS fournit des liens vers les livrables publics et les publications des projets HORIZON.

Les liens vers les livrables et les publications des projets du 7e PC, ainsi que les liens vers certains types de résultats spécifiques tels que les jeux de données et les logiciels, sont récupérés dynamiquement sur OpenAIRE .

Livrables

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

Auteurs: S. Algeri, D.A. van Dyk, J. Conrad, B. Anderson
Publié dans: Journal of Instrumentation, Numéro 11/12, 2016, Page(s) P12010-P12010, ISSN 1748-0221
Éditeur: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/11/12/P12010

DETECTING RELATIVISTIC X-RAY JETS IN HIGH-REDSHIFT QUASARS

Auteurs: 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
Publié dans: The Astrophysical Journal, Numéro 833/1, 2016, Page(s) 123, ISSN 1538-4357
Éditeur: IOP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/123

A global fit of the MSSM with GAMBIT

Auteurs: 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
Publié dans: The European Physical Journal C, Numéro 77/12, 2017, ISSN 1434-6044
Éditeur: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5196-8

Status of the scalar singlet dark matter model

Auteurs: 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
Publié dans: The European Physical Journal C, Numéro 77/8, 2017, ISSN 1434-6044
Éditeur: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5113-1

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

Auteurs: 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
Publié dans: The European Physical Journal C, Numéro 77/11, 2017, ISSN 1434-6044
Éditeur: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5321-8

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

Auteurs: Gregory D. Martinez, James McKay, Ben Farmer, Pat Scott, Elinore Roebber, Antje Putze, Jan Conrad
Publié dans: The European Physical Journal C, Numéro 77/11, 2017, ISSN 1434-6044
Éditeur: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5274-y

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

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

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

Auteurs: E. A. Revsbech, R. Trotta, D. A. van Dyk
Publié dans: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Numéro 473/3, 2017, Page(s) 3969-3986, ISSN 0035-8711
Éditeur: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2570

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

Auteurs: Hikmatali Shariff, Xiyun Jiao, Roberto Trotta, David A. van Dyk
Publié dans: The Astrophysical Journal, Numéro 827/1, 2016, Page(s) 1, ISSN 1538-4357
Éditeur: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/1

A hierarchical model for the ages of Galactic halo white dwarfs

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

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

Auteurs: JaeSub Hong, Vallia Antoniou, Andreas Zezas, Frank Haberl, Manami Sasaki, Jeremy J. Drake, Paul P. Plucinsky, Silas Laycock
Publié dans: The Astrophysical Journal, Numéro 847/1, 2017, Page(s) 26, ISSN 1538-4357
Éditeur: 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

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

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

Auteurs: D. C. Stenning, R. Wagner-Kaiser, E. Robinson, D. A. van Dyk, T. von Hippel, A. Sarajedini, N. Stein
Publié dans: The Astrophysical Journal, Numéro 826/1, 2016, Page(s) 41, ISSN 1538-4357
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Kaisey S. Mandel, Daniel M. Scolnic, Hikmatali Shariff, Ryan J. Foley, Robert P. Kirshner
Publié dans: The Astrophysical Journal, Numéro 842/2, 2017, Page(s) 93, ISSN 1538-4357
Éditeur: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6038

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

Auteurs: 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
Publié dans: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Numéro 468/1, 2017, Page(s) 1038-1055, ISSN 0035-8711
Éditeur: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx544

Bayesian hierarchical modelling of initial–final mass relations acrossstar clusters

Auteurs: Shijing Si, David A van Dyk, Ted von Hippel, Elliot Robinson, Elizabeth Jeffery, David C Stenning
Publié dans: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Numéro 480/1, 2018, Page(s) 1300-1321, ISSN 0035-8711
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: 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
Publié dans: The Astrophysical Journal, Numéro 866/2, 2018, Page(s) 146, ISSN 1538-4357
Éditeur: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aadfdd

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

Auteurs: Francesca M. Fornasini, Francesca Civano, Giuseppina Fabbiano, Martin Elvis, Stefano Marchesi, Takamitsu Miyaji, Andreas Zezas
Publié dans: The Astrophysical Journal, Numéro 865/1, 2018, Page(s) 43, ISSN 1538-4357
Éditeur: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aada4e

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

Auteurs: I Komis, V Pavlidou, A Zezas
Publié dans: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Numéro 483/3, 2018, Page(s) 4020-4030, ISSN 0035-8711
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: K Anastasopoulou, A Zezas, V Gkiokas, K Kovlakas
Publié dans: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Numéro 483/1, 2018, Page(s) 711-733, ISSN 0035-8711
Éditeur: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3131

Projected distances to host galaxy reduce SNIa dispersion

Auteurs: 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
Publié dans: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Numéro 481/2, 2018, Page(s) 2766-2777, ISSN 0035-8711
Éditeur: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2510

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

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

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

Auteurs: Jeff J. Andrews, Andreas Zezas, Tassos Fragos
Publié dans: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Numéro 237/1, 2018, Page(s) 1, ISSN 1538-4365
Éditeur: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/aaca30

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

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

Multidimensional data-driven classification of emission-line galaxies

Auteurs: Vasileios Stampoulis, David A van Dyk, Vinay L Kashyap, Andreas Zezas
Publié dans: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Numéro 485/1, 2019, Page(s) 1085-1102, ISSN 0035-8711
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Sebastian Hoof, Alex Geringer-Sameth, Roberto Trotta
Publié dans: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Numéro 2020/02, 2020, Page(s) 012-012, ISSN 1475-7516
Éditeur: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/02/012

Calibration Concordance for Astronomical Instruments via Multiplicative Shrinkage

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

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

Auteurs: Ying Qin, Pablo Marchant, Tassos Fragos, Georges Meynet, Vicky Kalogera
Publié dans: The Astrophysical Journal, Numéro 870/2, 2019, Page(s) L18, ISSN 2041-8213
Éditeur: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aaf97b

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

Auteurs: 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
Publié dans: The Astrophysical Journal, Numéro 887/1, 2019, Page(s) 20, ISSN 1538-4357
Éditeur: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab4a7a

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

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

Testing One Hypothesis Multiple Times: The Multidimensional Case

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

Bayesian reconstruction of the Milky Way dark matter distribution

Auteurs: E.V. Karukes, M. Benito, F. Iocco, R. Trotta, A. Geringer-Sameth
Publié dans: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Numéro 2019/09, 2019, Page(s) 046-046, ISSN 1475-7516
Éditeur: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/09/046

A diagnostic tool for the identification of supernova remnants

Auteurs: M Kopsacheili, A Zezas, I Leonidaki
Publié dans: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Numéro 491/1, 2020, Page(s) 889-902, ISSN 0035-8711
Éditeur: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2594

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

Auteurs: Jeff J Andrews, Andreas Zezas
Publié dans: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Numéro 486/3, 2019, Page(s) 3213-3227, ISSN 0035-8711
Éditeur: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1066

The origin of spin in binary black holes

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

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

Auteurs: Y. Qin, T. Fragos, G. Meynet, J. Andrews, M. Sørensen, H. F. Song
Publié dans: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Numéro 616, 2018, Page(s) A28, ISSN 0004-6361
Éditeur: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201832839

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

Auteurs: 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
Publié dans: The Astrophysical Journal, Numéro 839/2, 2017, Page(s) 108, ISSN 1538-4357
Éditeur: IoP
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6575

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

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

Conference proceedings (1)

X-raying the evolution of SN 1987A

Auteurs: Vinay L. Kashyap,David van Dyk, Katy McKeough, Frank Primini Diab Jerius, Akshay Gowrishankar, Aneta Siemiginowska, Andreas Zezas$
Publié dans: IAUS331 SN 1987A 30 Years Later, 2017
Éditeur: Cambridge University Press