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Wide field small aperture telescopes are working horses for fast sky surveying. Transient discovery is one of their main tasks. Classification of candidate transient images between real sources and artifacts with high accuracy is an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Peng Jia , Yifei Zhao , Gang Xue , Dongmei Cai

In the context of radio galaxy classification, most state-of-the-art neural network algorithms have been focused on single survey data. The question of whether these trained algorithms have cross-survey identification ability or can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Hongming Tang , Anna M. M. Scaife , J. P. Leahy

We apply machine learning techniques in an attempt to predict and classify stellar properties from noisy and sparse time series data. We preprocessed over 94 GB of Kepler light curves from MAST to classify according to ten distinct physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Trisha Hinners , Kevin Tat , Rachel Thorp

Time-domain astronomy is entering a new era as wide-field surveys with higher cadences allow for more discoveries than ever before. The field has seen an increased use of machine learning and deep learning for automated classification of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Umar. F. Burhanudin , Justyn. R. Maund

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

Thanks to the advances in robotic telescopes, the time domain astronomy leads to a large number of transient events detected in images every night. Data mining and machine learning tools used for object classification are presented. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-17 Martin Topinka

Supervised classification of temporal sequences of astronomical images into meaningful transient astrophysical phenomena has been considered a hard problem because it requires the intervention of human experts. The classifier uses the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 Catalina Gómez , Mauricio Neira , Marcela Hernández Hoyos , Pablo Arbeláez , Jaime E. Forero-Romero

The next generation of observatories will facilitate the discovery of new types of astrophysical transients. The detection of such phenomena, whose characteristics are presently poorly constrained, will hinge on the ability to perform blind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-06 Iftach Sadeh

During the last decade, a considerable amount of effort has been made to classify variable stars using different machine learning techniques. Typically, light curves are represented as vectors of statistical descriptors or features that are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Carlos Aguirre , Karim Pichara , Ignacio Becker

The utilization of Very Low Frequency (VLF) electromagnetic signals in navigation systems is widespread. However, the non-stationary behavior of lightning signals can affect VLF electromagnetic signal transmission. Accurately classifying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-08 Jinghao Sun , Tingting Ji , Guoyu Wang , Rui Wang

The exploitation of present and future synoptic (multi-band and multi-epoch) surveys requires an extensive use of automatic methods for data processing and data interpretation. In this work, using data extracted from the Catalina Real Time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-29 Antonio D'Isanto , Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Ciro Donalek , Giuseppe Longo , Giuseppe Riccio , Stanislav G. Djorgovski

Efficient identification and follow-up of astronomical transients is hindered by the need for humans to manually select promising candidates from data streams that contain many false positives. These artefacts arise in the difference images…

In this project we use data obtained by Zwicky Transient Facility to develop and test a neural-network-based, multiband classification algorithm to classify periodic variable stars (i.e. pulsating variable stars and eclipsing binaries). The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Tamás Szklenár , Attila Bódi , Róbert Szabó

The rate of image acquisition in modern synoptic imaging surveys has already begun to outpace the feasibility of keeping astronomers in the real-time discovery and classification loop. Here we present the inner workings of a framework,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. S. Bloom , J. W. Richards , P. E. Nugent , R. M. Quimby , M. M. Kasliwal , D. L. Starr , D. Poznanski , E. O. Ofek , S. B. Cenko , N. R. Butler , S. R. Kulkarni , A. Gal-Yam , N. Law

Machine learning has become essential for automated classification of astronomical transients, but current approaches face significant limitations: classifiers trained on simulations struggle with real data, models developed for one survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-10 Rithwik Gupta , Daniel Muthukrishna , Nabeel Rehemtulla , Ved Shah

Fast radio transient search algorithms identify signals of interest by iterating and applying a threshold on a set of matched filters. These filters are defined by properties of the transient such as time and dispersion. A real transient…

Wide-field time domain facilities detect transient events in large numbers through difference imaging. For example, Zwicky Transient Facility produces alerts for hundreds of thousands of transient events per night, a rate set to be dwarfed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 D. Mistry , C. M. Copperwheat , M. J. Darnley , I. Olier

Conventional colorimetric sensing methods typically rely on signal intensity at a single wavelength, often selected heuristically based on peak visual modulation. This approach overlooks the structured information embedded in full-spectrum…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Majid Aalizadeh , Chinmay Raut , Ali Tabartehfarahani , Xudong Fan

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…

We present RAPID (Real-time Automated Photometric IDentification), a novel time-series classification tool capable of automatically identifying transients from within a day of the initial alert, to the full lifetime of a light curve. Using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-08 Daniel Muthukrishna , Gautham Narayan , Kaisey S. Mandel , Rahul Biswas , Renée Hložek