A Catalog of Hα Emission-line Stars and 785 Newly Identified Young Stellar Object Candidates from LAMOST Based on a Deep Learning Method

The H α emission line commonly appears in the spectra of many stars and serves as a key indicator for tracing ionized interstellar gas, investigating stellar activity, and studying gas dynamics. Young stellar objects (YSOs), representing the early evolutionary stages of stars, typically exhibit the...

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Main Authors: Lei Tan, Ying Mei, Jiale Qian, Xiaolong Wang, Yue Cui, Aixin Huang, Feng Wang, Hui Deng, Chao Liu, Huanbin Chi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/adf4e6
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Summary:The H α emission line commonly appears in the spectra of many stars and serves as a key indicator for tracing ionized interstellar gas, investigating stellar activity, and studying gas dynamics. Young stellar objects (YSOs), representing the early evolutionary stages of stars, typically exhibit the H α emission line in their spectra. In this paper, we use bidirectional long short-term memory networks and convolutional neural networks to identify H α emission-line stars in medium-resolution spectra from the Large Area Multi-Target Fiber Optic Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) survey, and further search for YSO candidates via the Li absorption line. We constructed a data set by crossmatching previously published data sets with LAMOST data and performing manual verification. Using this data set, we built an identification model that achieved an accuracy of 97.58% on the testing set. Application of this model to the full survey yielded 46,867 H α emission-line star candidates, with 41,996 visually confirmed detections (15,329 of which are recorded in SIMBAD). To further identify YSOs, we developed a dedicated Li absorption line detector, identifying 4618 preliminary candidates from the H α emission-line stars. Rigorous vetting confirmed 4255 YSO candidates, comprising 3470 previously cataloged objects and 785 new discoveries. All catalogs (H α emission-line stars and YSOs) and the code of the proposed model are publicly released to facilitate community research.
ISSN:0067-0049