TransientVerse: A Comprehensive Real-Time Alert and Multi-Wavelength Analysis System for Transient Astronomical Events
Abstract
Transient astrophysical events are characterized by short timescales, high energy, and multi-wavelength radiation, often accompanied by violent energy releases. These phenomena are a major focus of modern astronomical research. To reveal their underlying physical mechanisms, near-real-time, multi-wavelength, and multi-messenger follow-up observations are essential. However, current transient alert systems face multiple challenges, including fragmented messages, inconsistent formats, and difficulties in retrospective analysis, all of which hinder the efficiency of triggering observations. This paper presents \textbf{TransientVerse}, an innovative real-time database platform to integrate and disseminate transient alerts. The platform uses an automated pipeline to integrate real-time alerts from multiple sources (e.g., ATel, VOEvent, and GCN). It structures unstructured text data into a dual-format database for transient alerts by using open-source large language models. TransientVerse offers retrospective searches, data visualization, literature reviews, and customized subscriptions for efficient event tracking and analysis. Additionally, for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), the platform provides real-time statistics on repeat burst rates across different time intervals and alerts astronomers about high-frequency burst sources, enabling rapid follow-up observations and optimizing the use of limited observation windows. TransientVerse improves the efficiency of acquiring transient events in real time, lowers the technical barriers for simultaneous observations, and provides robust technical support for multi-wavelength, multi-messenger time-domain astronomy and astrophysics studies.
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@article{arxiv.2501.04247,
title = {TransientVerse: A Comprehensive Real-Time Alert and Multi-Wavelength Analysis System for Transient Astronomical Events},
author = {Jian-Hua Fang and Di Li and Pei Wang and Hua-Xi Chen and Han Wang and Deng-Ke Zhou and Qin-Ping Bao and Hai-Yan Li and Jing-Jing Hu and Jin-Tao Xie and Xiao-Dong Ge and Yi Feng and Dong-Hui Quan and Zhi-Xuan Kang and Xue-Rong Guo and Chen-Wu Jin and Zhi-Lin Wang and Jia-Ying Xu and Chen-Chen Miao and Ru-Shuang Zhao and Chen-Hui Niu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.04247},
year = {2025}
}