Outlier Detection in the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey

We present an unsupervised search for outliers in the Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) data set from the DESI Early Data Release. This analysis utilizes an autoencoder to compress galaxy spectra into a compact, redshift-invariant latent space, and a normalizing flow to identify low-probability objects. Th...

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Main Authors: Yan Liang, Peter Melchior, ChangHoon Hahn, Jeff Shen, Andy Goulding, Charlotte Ward
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acfa03