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We present Tails, an open-source deep-learning framework for the identification and localization of comets in the image data of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a robotic optical time-domain survey currently in operation at the Palomar…

With large-scale surveys such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), it has become possible to obtain a well-sampled light curve spanning the full length of the survey for any discovery within the survey footprint. Similarly, any transient…

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This paper introduces the Wave Transactional Filesystem (WTF), a novel, transactional, POSIX-compatible filesystem based on a new file slicing API that enables efficient file transformations. WTF provides transactional access to a…

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Real-time processing of data streams emanating from sensors is becoming a common task in Internet of Things scenarios. The key implementation goal consists in efficiently handling massive incoming data streams and supporting advanced data…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Xiangnan Ren , Olivier Curé

We describe a scalable distributed imaging algorithm framework for next-generation radio telescopes, managing the Fourier transform from apertures to sky (or vice versa) with a focus on minimising memory load, data transfers, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Peter Wortmann , James Kent , Bojan Nikolic

We present a methodology for automated real-time analysis of a radio image data stream with the goal to find transient sources. Contrary to previous works, the transients we are interested in occur on a time-scale where dispersion starts to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 David Ruhe , Mark Kuiack , Antonia Rowlinson , Ralph Wijers , Patrick Forré

The Zwicky Transient Facility is a time-domain optical survey that has substantially increased our ability to observe and construct massive catalogs of astronomical objects by use of its 47 square degree camera that can observe in multiple…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-21 Michael S. Medford , Peter Nugent , Danny Goldstein , Frank J. Masci , Igor Andreoni , Ron Beck , Michael W. Coughlin , Dmitry A. Duev , Ashish A. Mahabal , Reed L. Riddle

We present a real-time stamp classifier of astronomical events for the ALeRCE (Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events) broker. The classifier is based on a convolutional neural network, trained on alerts ingested from the…

There is a growing concern about an impact of low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations on ground-based astronomical observations, in particular, on wide-field surveys in the optical and infrared. The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-17 Przemek Mroz , Angel Otarola , Thomas A. Prince , Richard Dekany , Dmitry A. Duev , Matthew J. Graham , Steven L. Groom , Frank J. Masci , Michael S. Medford

The upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is expected to detect a few million transients per night, which will generate a live alert stream during the entire ten years of the survey. This stream will be distributed via community…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 B. M. O. Fraga , C. R. Bom , A. Santos , E. Russeil , M. Leoni , J. Peloton , E. E. O. Ishida , A. Möller , S. Blondin

Context. The Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) is a wide-field visual-band survey designed to explore the variable and transient sky with high cadence. Its raw data stream is automatically processed in near real time at the observatory…

Collaborative path planning for robot swarms in complex, unknown environments without external positioning is a challenging problem. This requires robots to find safe directions based on real-time environmental observations, and to…

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Zak-transform based orthogonal time frequency space (Zak-OTFS) is a delay-Doppler (DD) domain modulation scheme in which the signal processing is carried out in the DD domain. The channel when viewed in the DD domain is predictable.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Sandesh Rao Mattu , Nishant Mehrotra , Robert Calderbank

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

In recent years, with the rapid development of sensing technology and the Internet of Things (IoT), sensors play increasingly important roles in traffic control, medical monitoring, industrial production and etc. They generated high volume…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Hang Zhao , Jie Tang

The enormous multiplexity of the WST opens up the possibility to trigger alerts for variable objects - an option that has been reserved so far only for imaging surveys. WST can go further by detecting spectroscopic line profile and line…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Valenitn D. Ivanov

Robotic wide-field time-domain surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility and the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, capture dozens of transients each night. The workflows for discovering and classifying transients in survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Nabeel Rehemtulla , Michael W. Coughlin , Adam A. Miller , Theophile Jegou du Laz

Transmission networks consist of thousands of branches for large-scale real power systems. They are built with a high degree of redundancy for reliability concern. Thus, it is very likely that there exist various network topologies that can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Xingpeng Li , Akshay Korad , Pranavamoorthy Balasubramanian

Apache Kafka has become a foundational platform for high throughput event streaming, enabling real time analytics, financial transaction processing, industrial telemetry, and large scale data driven systems. Despite its maturity and…

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