Decoding RR Lyrae light curves with deep learning for accurate absolute magnitude estimation

arXiv:2609.14342 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-09-13 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-09-13

Updated: 2026-09-13

Comments: 40 pages, 11 figures, published online in The Innovation

DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2026.101535

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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• Accuracy — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 8× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Ablation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transformer — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Magellanic Cloud — 5× in this paper
• Regularization — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Loss Function — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AdamW Optimizer — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• External Validation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gaia Specific Objects Study — 1× in this paper
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Root Mean Squared Errors — 1× in this paper
• Sampling Biases — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Selection Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Systematic Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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