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A key science goal of large sky surveys such as those conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and precursors to the Square Kilometre Array is the identification of variable and transient objects. One approach is the statistical analysis…

Technology has advanced to the point that it is possible to image the entire sky every night and process the data in real time. The sky is hardly static: many interesting phenomena occur, including variable stationary objects such as stars…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 J. L. Tonry , L. Denneau , A. N. Heinze , B. Stalder , K. W. Smith , S. J. Smartt , C. W. Stubbs , H. J. Weiland , A. Rest

Radio surveys typically sample extragalactic sources in higher redshift regimes than is typical for optical surveys, resulting in many radio sources not having a detected optical counterpart. Over the next decade the Legacy Survey of Space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-24 Alex Tellez , Yjan Gordon , Keith Bechtol

We present the results of our search for highly variable active galactic nuclei (AGNs) the X-ray flux from which changed by more than an order of magnitude during the SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey. Using the eROSITA data obtained in the period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-21 Pavel Medvedev , Marat Gilfanov , Sergey Sazonov , Rashid Sunyaev , Georgii Khorunzhev

The regions around the celestial poles offer the ability to find and characterize long-term variables from ground-based observatories. We used multi-year Evryscope data to search for high-amplitude (~5% or greater) variable objects among…

We report the detection of variable stars within a 11.5' x 11.5' region near the Galactic centre (GC) that includes the Arches and Quintuplet clusters, as revealed by the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey. There are 353 sources…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 C. Navarro Molina , J. Borissova , M. Catelan , P. W. Lucas , N. Medina , C. Contreras Pena , R. Kurtev , D. Minniti

Variability is a property shared by virtually all active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and was adopted as a criterion for their selection using data from multi epoch surveys. Low Luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs) are contaminated by the light of their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Trevese , K. Boutsia , F. Vagnetti , E. Cappellaro , S. Puccetti

Variability has proven to be a powerful tool to detect active galactic nuclei (AGN) in multi-epoch surveys. The new-generation facilities expected to become operational in the next few years will mark a new era in time-domain astronomy and…

Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research asteroid survey (LINEAR) observed approximately 10,000 deg$^2$ of the northern sky in the period roughly from 1998 to 2013. Long baseline of observations combined with good cadence and depth ($14.5 <…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-11 Lovro Palaversa

We present a long temporal baseline variability survey in the Frontier Field MACSJ1149. In this study, we identify active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and other transient sources via their variability using over a decade of Hubble Space Telescope…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 John Della Costa , Vicki L. Sarajedini , Louis-Gregory Strolger

We present a pilot search for variable and transient sources at 1.4 GHz with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). The search was performed in a 30 deg$^{2}$ area centred on the NGC 7232 galaxy group over 8 epochs and…

The number of strong lensing systems will soon increase by orders of magnitude thanks to sensitive, wide-field optical and infrared imaging surveys such as Euclid, Rubin-LSST, and Roman. A dramatic increase in strong lenses will also occur…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Samuel McCarty , Liam Connor

Upcoming LSST survey gives an unprecedented opportunity for studying populations of intrinsically faint objects using microlensing technique. Large field of view and aperture allow effective time-series observations of many stars in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Sedighe Sajadian , Radoslaw Poleski

A sample of Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) is presented including spectroscopically identified 380 spectra of 245 objects, of which 58 CV candidates are new discoveries. The BaggingTopPush and the Random Forest algorithms are applied to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Wen Hou , A-Li Luo , Yin-Bi Li , Li Qin

In the time domain, the radio sky in particular along the Galactic plane direction may vary significantly because of various energetic activities associated with stars, stellar and supermassive black holes. Using multi-epoch Very Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-12 Jun Yang , Yongjun Chen , Leonid I. Gurvits , Zsolt Paragi , Aiyuan Yang , Xiaolong Yang , Zhiqiang Shen

The cumulative (anti)neutrino production from all core-collapse supernovae within our cosmic horizon gives rise to the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB), which is on the verge of detectability. The observed flux depends on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-26 Amy Lien , Brian D. Fields , John F. Beacom

The COROT space mission will monitor several target fields for up to 150 days to perform asteroseismology and to search for extrasolar planets by photometric transits. Variable stars in the target fields are important objects for additional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 C. Karoff , H. Rauer , A. Erikson , H. Voss , P. Kabath , T. Wiese , M. Deleuil , C. Moutou , J. C. Meunier , H. Deeg

We present simulated observations to assess the ability of LSST and the WFD survey to detect and characterize kilonovae - the optical emission associated with binary neutron star (and possibly black hole - neutron star) mergers. We expand…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 P. S. Cowperthwaite , V. A. Villar , D. M. Scolnic , E. Berger

We present a catalogue of variable stars in the near-infrared wavelength detected with overlapping regions of the 2MASS public images, and discuss their properties. The investigated region is in the direction of the Galactic center (-30 < l…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Shinjirou Kouzuma , Hitoshi Yamaoka

We describe the La Silla-QUEST (LSQ) Variability Survey. LSQ is a dedicated wide-field synoptic survey in the Southern Hemisphere, focussing on the discovery and study of transients ranging from low redshift (z < 0.1) SN Ia, Tidal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-08 Ellie Hadjiyska , David Rabinowitz , Charles Baltay , Nancy Ellman , Peter Nugent , Robert Zinn , Benjamin Horowitz , Ryan McKinnon , Lissa R. Miller