DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15740806
title: The data for "The ZTF Source Classification Project: III. A Catalog of Variable Sources"

description: The classification of variable objects provides insight into a wide variety of astrophysics ranging from stellar interiors to galactic nuclei. The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) provides time series observations that record the variability of more than a billion sources. The scale of these data necessitates automated approaches to make a thorough analysis. Building on previous work, this paper reports the results of the ZTF Source Classification Project (SCoPe), which trains neural network and XGBoost machine learning (ML) algorithms to perform dichotomous classification of variable ZTF sources using a manually constructed training set containing 170,632 light curves. We find that several classifiers achieve high precision and recall scores, suggesting the reliability of their predictions for 692,934,995 light curves across 345 ZTF fields. We also identify the most important features for XGB classification and compare the performance of the two ML algorithms, finding a pattern of higher precision among XGB classifiers. The resulting classification catalog is available to the public, and the software developed for SCoPe is open-source and adaptable to future time-domain surveys.
description: Notes for 1.1.3



In SCoPe_Sky_Coverage.png dark regions indicate parts of the sky that are included in the current catalog and light regions show the total coverage of ZTF.


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Notes for 0.1.1



Fields are now seperated by hour in Right Ascension (RA). Fields  with centers between N-1 and N hours RA are located inN_N-1_prediction_xgb_dnn_fields.zip.  For example a field with a center of 3.7 hours RA would be located in 04_03_prediction_xgb_dnn_fields.zip

The seperation is done by the location of the field center so there may be parts of fields that are not in the within the RA indicated. Field centers and corners can be found on this GitHub page.

01_00_prediction_xgb_dnn_fields.zip is fully completed


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Notes for 0.1.0



Fields are now seperated by hour in Right Ascension (RA). Fields  with centers between N-1 and N hours RA are located in N_prediction_xgb_dnn_fields.zip.  For example a field with a center of 3.7 hours RA would be located in 4_prediction_xgb_dnn_fields.zip

The seperation is done by the location of the field center so there may be parts of fields that are not in the within the RA indicated. Field centers and corners can be found on this GitHub page.

fields.json now denotes which fields with classifications are contained in each folder.


 

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Notes for 0.0.4



All fields are now contained (in CSV format) within a single predictions_dnn_xgb_92_fields.zip file.


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Notes for 0.0.3



All fields are now contained (in CSV format) within a single predictions_dnn_xgb_77_fields.zip file.


 

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Notes for 0.0.2



 From Version 0.0.1 to 0.0.2, classification predictions have been updated by the inclusion of the Gaia parallax error in the set of ontological features. Any fields downloaded from Version 0.0.1 should thus be replaced by those from Version 0.0.2.

The structure of the catalog has been updated - all fields are now contained (in CSV format) within a single predictions_dnn_xgb_70_fields.zip file.

A demo file containing 100 rows of predictions along with a Jupyter notebook to explain the columns are included in this release. See the scope-ml repository for details on setting up the environment needed to run this notebook.

The new fields.json file contains a list of all fields having classification predictions.