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Scientific Context

Welcome to the scientific section of the AstroSpectro project.

This section covers the scientific foundations behind the pipeline design. Beyond the technical aspects, it explains:

  • The origin and characteristics of the spectroscopic data used,
  • The methodology for processing spectra through to classification,
  • How model performance is evaluated and outputs interpreted.
Who is this for?

This section is for readers who:

  • are new to computational astrophysics,
  • want to understand the origin and processing of LAMOST spectra,
  • want to connect model outputs to their scientific meaning.

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The data: LAMOST DR5The LAMOST DR5 catalogue, the spectral format and how the data is structured
Methodology and overviewThe experimental protocol, from preprocessing to feature extraction and classification
Results analysisReading pipeline outputs: confusion matrices, classification reports and other metrics