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Automatic Classification of Objective Prism Spectra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

R. M. West*
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Hamburg, Germany∗

Abstract

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Methodological problems and hardware/software requirements of efficient automatic classification of objective prism stellar spectra are described on the basis of experience from ‘microphotometer-computer’ classification. Significant advances in hardware (two-dimensional scanners, on-line computers) as well as in software (image processing techniques) have now brought high-speed, exhaustive, automatic classification within reach. Some astronomical implications of automatic spectral surveys are discussed.

Type
Part II: Classification of Objective-Prism Spectra
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1973 

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