The VMC Survey – LI. Classifying extragalactic sources using a probabilistic random forest supervised machine learning algorithm
(2025)
Journal Article
Pennock, C. M., van Loon, J. T., Cioni, M.-R. L., Maitra, C., Oliveira, J. M., Craig, J. E. M., …Groenewegen, M. A. T. (2025). The VMC Survey – LI. Classifying extragalactic sources using a probabilistic random forest supervised machine learning algorithm. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537(2), 1028-1055. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf080
We used a supervised machine learning algorithm (probabilistic random forest) to classify ∼130 million sources in the VISTA Survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC). We used multi-wavelength photometry from optical to far-infrared as features to be trai... Read More about The VMC Survey – LI. Classifying extragalactic sources using a probabilistic random forest supervised machine learning algorithm.