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In this article we present a method for the automated prediction of stellar atmospheric parameters from spectral indices. This method uses a genetic algorithm (GA) for the selection of relevant spectral indices and prototypical stars and predicts their properties, using the k-nearest neighbors method (KNN). We have applied the method to predict the effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, luminosity class and spectral class of stars from spectral indices. Our experimental results show that the feature selection performed by the genetic algorithm reduces the running time of KNN up to 92%, and the predictive accuracy error up to 35%.
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Ramírez, J.F., Fuentes, O. & Gulati, R.K. Prediction of Stellar Atmospheric Parameters using Instance-Based Machine Learning and Genetic Algorithms. Experimental Astronomy 12, 163–178 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021899116161
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021899116161