A New Distance Metric between Different Stellar Spectra: the Residual Distribution Distance
LIU Jie1, PAN Jing-chang1*, LUO A-li1, 2, WEI Peng2, LIU Meng1
1. School of Mechanical, Electrical & Information Engineering, Shandong University, Weihai, Weihai 264209, China 2. Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
Abstract：Distance metric is an important issue for the spectroscopic survey data processing, which defines a calculation method of the distance between two different spectra. Based on this, the classification, clustering, parameter measurement and outlier data mining of spectral data can be carried out. Therefore, the distance measurement method has some effect on the performance of the classification, clustering, parameter measurement and outlier data mining. With the development of large-scale stellar spectral sky surveys, how to define more efficient distance metric on stellar spectra has become a very important issue in the spectral data processing. Based on this problem and fully considering of the characteristics and data features of the stellar spectra, a new distance measurement method of stellar spectra named Residual Distribution Distance is proposed. While using this method to measure the distance, the two spectra are firstly scaled and then the standard deviation of the residual is used the distance. Different from the traditional distance metric calculation methods of stellar spectra, when used to calculate the distance between stellar spectra, this method normalize the two spectra to the same scale, and then calculate the residual corresponding to the same wavelength, and the standard error of the residual spectrum is used as the distance measure. The distance measurement method can be used for stellar classification, clustering and stellar atmospheric physical parameters measurement and so on. This paper takes stellar subcategory classification as an example to test the distance measure method. The results show that the distance defined by the proposed method is more effective to describe the gap between different types of spectra in the classification than other methods, which can be well applied in other related applications. At the same time, this paper also studies the effect of the signal to noise ratio (SNR) on the performance of the proposed method. The result show that the distance is affected by the SNR. The smaller the signal-to-noise ratio is, the greater impact is on the distance; While SNR is larger than 10, the signal-to-noise ratio has little effect on the performance for the classification.
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LIU Jie1, PAN Jing-chang1*, LUO A-li1, 2, WEI Peng2, LIU Meng1 . A New Distance Metric between Different Stellar Spectra: the Residual Distribution Distance . SPECTROSCOPY AND SPECTRAL ANALYSIS, 2015, 35(12): 3524-3528.
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