An Active Galactic Nucleus Recognition Model based on Deep Neural Network [GA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06683


To understand the cosmic accretion history of supermassive black holes, separating the radiation from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and star-forming galaxies (SFGs) is critical. However, a reliable solution on photometrically recognising AGNs still remains unsolved. In this work, we present a novel AGN recognition method based on Deep Neural Network (Neural Net; NN). The main goals of this work are (i) to test if the AGN recognition problem in the North Ecliptic Pole Wide (NEPW) field could be solved by NN; (ii) to shows that NN exhibits an improvement in the performance compared with the traditional, standard spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting method in our testing samples; and (iii) to publicly release a reliable AGN/SFG catalogue to the astronomical community using the best available NEPW data, and propose a better method that helps future researchers plan an advanced NEPW database. Finally, according to our experimental result, the NN recognition accuracy is around 80.29% – 85.15%, with AGN completeness around 85.42% – 88.53% and SFG completeness around 81.17% – 85.09%.

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B. Chen, T. Goto, S. Kim, et. al.
Tue, 19 Jan 21
77/92

Comments: 12 pages, 12 figures