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How To Measure Metallicity From Five-Band Photometry With Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms, Viviana Acquaviva
How To Measure Metallicity From Five-Band Photometry With Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms, Viviana Acquaviva
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We demonstrate that it is possible to measure metallicity from the SDSS five-band photometry to better than 0.1 dex using supervised machine learning algorithms. Using spectroscopic estimates of metallicity as ground truth, we build, optimize and train several estimators to predict metallicity. We use the observed photometry, as well as derived quantities such as stellar mass and photometric redshift, as features, and we build two sample data sets at median redshifts of 0.103 and 0.218 and median r-band magnitude of 17.5 and 18.3, respectively. We find that ensemble methods, such as random forests of trees and extremely randomized trees and …