Shivam Kumaran, Samir Mandal, Sudip Bhattacharyya, Deepak Mishra, Automated classification of Chandra X-ray point sources using machine learning methods, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023;, stad414, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad414

A large number of unidentified sources found by astronomical surveys and other observations necessitate the use of an automated classification technique based on machine learning methods. The aim of this paper is to find a suitable automated classifier to identify the point X-ray sources in the Chandra Source Catalogue (CSC) 2.0 in the categories of active galactic nuclei (AGN), X-ray emitting stars, young stellar objects (YSOs), high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), ultra luminous X-ray sources (ULXs), cataclysmic variables (CVs), and pulsars. The catalogue consists of ≈3, 17, 000 sources, out of which we select 2,77,069 point sources based on the quality flags available in CSC 2.0. In order to identify unknown sources of CSC 2.0, we use multi-wavelength features, such as magnitudes in optical/UV bands from Gaia-EDR3, SDSS and GALEX, and magnitudes in IR bands from 2MASS, WISE and MIPS-Spitzer, in addition to X-ray features (flux and variability) from CSC 2.0. We find the Light Gradient Boosted Machine, an advanced decision tree-based machine learning classification algorithm, suitable for our purpose and achieve 93% precision, 93% recall score and 0.91 Mathew’s Correlation coefficient score. With the trained classifier, we identified 54,770 (14,066) sources with more than 3σ (4σ) confidence, out of which there are 32,600 (8,574) AGNs, 16,148 (5,166) stars, 5,184 (208) YSOs, 439 (46) HMXBs, 197 (71) LMXBs, 50 (0) ULXs, 89 (1) CVs, and 63 (0) pulsars. This method can also be useful for identifying sources of other catalogues reliably. China Checkweigher Factory

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