Astronomy Tea Talk

With extensive and high precision astronomy databases, new and more sophisticated analysis methods and physics models are necessary. In this talk, I will use three projects to illustrate the necessary changes for industrial scale astronomy. I will present a new discovery and assessment of a well-known phenomenon, Galactic warp, made possible by the large amount ofdata from Gaia. I will examine how traditional analytical methods are holding up with the huge influx of new and high accuracy data in the context of the Kz problem. And lastly, I will showcase how novel techniques in deep learning can be applied into astronomical data mining by using searching for White Dwarf - M dwarf binaries with Gaia stellar spectra as an example.