Classification of Astronomical Infrared Sources Using Spitzer Space Telescope Data

.......................................................................................................2 Background .................................................................................................5 Stars and Spectroscopy with the Spitzer Space Telescope .................................5 Clustering Methodologies ...................................................................... 6 Data ................................................................................................11 Experimental Methods .................................................................................... 14 Preparing the Data ...............................................................................14 Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering ....................................................... 15 K-means Clustering ............................................................................. 17 Classification Accuracy ......................................................................... 17 Sloan Database............ ....................................................................... 18 Results & Discussion ...................................................................................... 19 Future Work ............................................................................................... 31 Conclusion .................................................................................................. 33 References .................................................................................................. 34