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There are many occasions when one does not have complete information in order to classify objects into different classes, and yet it is important to do the best one can since other decisions depend on that. In astronomy, especially…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-16 N. S. Philip , A. Mahabal , S. Abraham. R. Williams , S. G. Djorgovski , A. Drake , C Donalek , M. Graham

We present a novel method to produce empirical generative models of all kinds of astronomical transients from datasets of unlabeled light curves. Our hybrid model, that we call ParSNIP, uses a neural network to model the unknown intrinsic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Kyle Boone

Automating real-time anomaly detection is essential for identifying rare transients, with modern survey telescopes generating tens of thousands of alerts per night, and future telescopes, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, projected to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 Rithwik Gupta , Daniel Muthukrishna , Michelle Lochner

This paper presents a systematic literature review focusing on the application of machine learning techniques for deriving observational constraints in cosmology. The goal is to evaluate and synthesize existing research to identify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Luis Rojas , Sebastián Espinoza , Esteban González , Carlos Maldonado , Fei Luo

In the last decade, over a million stars were monitored to detect transiting planets. Manual interpretation of potential exoplanet candidates is labor intensive and subject to human error, the results of which are difficult to quantify.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Kyle A. Pearson , Leon Palafox , Caitlin A. Griffith

When completed, the PHANGS-HST project will provide a census of roughly 50,000 compact star clusters and associations, as well as human morphological classifications for roughly 20,000 of those objects. These large numbers motivated the…

Searches for counterparts to multimessenger events with optical imagers use difference imaging to detect new transient sources. However, even with existing artifact detection algorithms, this process simultaneously returns several classes…

Modern pulsar surveys produce many millions of candidate pulsars, far more than can be individually inspected. Traditional methods for filtering these candidates, based upon the signal-to-noise ratio of the detection, cannot easily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. J. Keith , R. P. Eatough , A. G. Lyne , M. Kramer , A. Possenti , F. Camilo , R. N. Manchester

The exponential growth of astronomical data from large-scale surveys has created both opportunities and challenges for the astrophysics community. This paper explores the possibilities offered by transfer learning techniques in addressing…

Every field of Science is undergoing unprecedented changes in the discovery process, and Astronomy has been a main player in this transition since the beginning. The ongoing and future large and complex multi-messenger sky surveys impose a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Maurizio D'Addona , Giuseppe Riccio , Stefano Cavuoti , Crescenzo Tortora , Massimo Brescia

Aims. The treatment of astronomical image time series has won increasing attention in recent years. Indeed, numerous surveys following up on transient objects are in progress or under construction, such as the Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 Anass Bairouk , Marc Chaumont , Dominique Fouchez , Jerome Paquet , Frédéric Comby , Julian Bautista

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

There exist a variety of star-galaxy classification techniques, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. In this paper, we present a novel meta-classification framework that combines and fully exploits different techniques to produce a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-20 Edward J. Kim , Robert J. Brunner , Matias Carrasco Kind

Despite decades of dedicated efforts there are still basic questions to answer with regard to Supernova progenitor systems and explosion mechanisms. In particular, in the last years a number of exceptionally bright objects and extremely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Giuseppe Altavilla , Maria Teresa Botticella , Enrico Cappellaro , Massimo Turatto

Classification and characterization of variable phenomena and transient phenomena are critical for astrophysics and cosmology. These objects are commonly studied using photometric time series or spectroscopic data. Given that many ongoing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Javiera Astudillo , Pavlos Protopapas , Karim Pichara , Pablo Huijse

Machine-learning is playing an increasing role in helping the astronomical community to face data analysis challenges, in particular in the field of Galactic Archaeology and large scale spectroscopic surveys. We present recent developments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-12 G. Guiglion

At present time Robotic observatory making is of current importance. Having a large field of view and being able to point at anywhere, Robotic astronomical systems are indispensable when they looking for transients like grb, supernovae…

Current and future large astronomical surveys will yield multiparameter databases on millions or even billions of objects. The scientific exploitation of these will require powerful, robust, and automated classification tools tailored to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. A. L. Bailer-Jones

Gravitational wave (GW) transient searches rely on signal-noise discriminators to distinguish astrophysical signals from noise artefacts. These discriminators are typically tuned towards expected signal morphologies, which may limit their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Johann Fernandes , Archana Pai , Koustav Chandra