Assigning Star-galaxy Probabilities to SDSS Stripe 82 Point Sources

Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82 imaging covers 275 deg^2 in ugriz. Reaching ~ 1-2 magnitudes deeper than the SDSS main survey (50% point source completeness at r ~24.2 mag), the public Stripe 82 catalog provides new opportunities in Galactic structure, weak lensing, and large scale structure. However, at magnitudes fainter than r ~ 22, unresolved galaxies dominate star counts in the point source catalog. The resulting contamination of point sources by galaxies can be mitigated by using multi-color information to derive star-galaxy probabilities. In this poster, we quantify the expected demographics of the Stripe 82 point source catalog. We use ugriz magnitudes to assign star-galaxy classification probabilities to Stripe 82 point sources with maximum likelihood, hierarchical Bayesian, and SVM techniques. We thank NSF AST-0908193 and NSF AST-1151462 for support.