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Abstract

An Active Galactic Nucleus Recognition Model based on Deep Neural Network

Oliver B-H Chen (National Tsing Hua Univ, Hsinchu, Taiwan)

To understand the cosmic accretion history of supermassive black holes, separating the radia-tion 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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