Classifying HSC sources using machine learing

I used 73.6 million photometric sources from the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC). I used 201,490 matched sources (stars: 8,500, galaxies: 164,905, quasars: 28,085) with spectroscopically labelled sources from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to train an optimised random forest classifier. The performance metric (F1 score) scores relatively high across all classifications (stars: 0.935, galaxies: 0.991, quasars: 0.937). I applied the trained model to previously unlabelled sources from the HSC photometric catalogue. This resulted in individual classification probabilities for each source, with 59% of galaxies, 10% of quasars, and 56% of stars having classification probabilities greater than 0.9. Finally I used a non-linear dimension reduction technique, Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP), in fully-supervised schemes to visualise the separation of galaxies, quasars, and stars in a two-dimensional space.