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Both multi-messenger astronomy and new high-throughput wide-field surveys require flexible tools for the selection and analysis of astrophysical transients. We here introduce the Alert Management, Photometry and Evaluation of Lightcurves…

Photometric classifications of supernova (SN) light curves have become necessary to utilize the full potential of large samples of observations obtained from wide-field photometric surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and…

The High Cadence Transient Survey (HiTS) aims to discover and study transient objects with characteristic timescales between hours and days, such as pulsating, eclipsing and exploding stars. This survey represents a unique laboratory to…

An automated, rapid classification of transient events detected in the modern synoptic sky surveys is essential for their scientific utility and effective follow-up using scarce resources. This problem will grow by orders of magnitude with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ashish A. Mahabal , C. Donalek , S. G. Djorgovski , A. J. Drake , M. J. Graham , R. Williams , Y. Chen , B. Moghaddam , M. Turmon

In this work, we propose a deep learning-based classification model of astronomical objects using alerts reported by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey. The model takes as inputs sequences of stamp images and metadata contained in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-27 Daniel Neira O. , Pablo A. Estévez , Francisco Förster

We describe the fast transient classification algorithm in the center of the kilonova (KN) science module currently implemented in the Fink broker and report classification results based on simulated catalogs and real data from the ZTF…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 B. Biswas , E. E. O. Ishida , J. Peloton , A. Moller , M. V. Pruzhinskaya , R. S. de Souza , D. Muthukrishna

RF emissions detection, classification, and spectro-temporal localization are crucial not only for tasks relating to understanding, managing, and protecting the RF spectrum, but also for safety and security applications such as detecting…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Hai N. Nguyen , Marinos Vomvas , Triet Vo-Huu , Guevara Noubir

We propose a new sequential classification model for astronomical objects based on a recurrent convolutional neural network (RCNN) which uses sequences of images as inputs. This approach avoids the computation of light curves or difference…

We have searched for ultra-long (> 100 s) gamma-ray transients in the data from the anticoincidence shield (ACS) of the SPI gamma-ray spectrometer onboard the INTEGRAL orbital observatory and classified them by machine learning methods. We…

The ground-based wide-angle camera array (GWAC) generates millions of single frame alerts per night. After the complicated and elaborate filters by multiple methods, a couple of dozens of candidates are still needed to be confirmed by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Yang Xu , Liping Xin , Jing Wang , Xuhui Han , Yulei Qiu , Maohai Huang , Jianyan Wei

We explore the use of Swin Transformer V2, a pre-trained vision Transformer, for photometric classification in a multi-survey setting by leveraging light curves from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact…

Modern astronomical surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), are capable of detecting thousands of transient events per year, necessitating the use of automated and scalable data analysis techniques. Recent advances in machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Betty X. Hu , Avi Loeb

Radar sensors offer power-efficient solutions for always-on smart devices, but processing the data streams on resource-constrained embedded platforms remains challenging. This paper presents novel techniques that leverage the temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Max Sponner , Julius Ott , Lorenzo Servadei , Bernd Waschneck , Robert Wille , Akash Kumar

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a state-of-the-art optical robotic sky survey, registers on the order of a million transient events - such as supernova explosions, changes in brightness of variable sources, or moving object detections…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-25 Dmitry A. Duev , Stéfan J. van der Walt

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

Modern-day time-domain photometric surveys collect a lot of observations of various astronomical objects and the coming era of large-scale surveys will provide even more information on their properties. Spectroscopic follow-ups are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Mariia Demianenko , Konstantin Malanchev , Ekaterina Samorodova , Mikhail Sysak , Aleksandr Shiriaev , Denis Derkach , Mikhail Hushchyn

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected a diverse range of gamma-ray transients since its launch in 2008. Over the years, Fermi has accumulated an extensive public archive of transient events. Traditional classification methods for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-31 Arpan Aryam John , Krushna Govind Shete , Shabnam Iyyani , Saptarshi Bej

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…

ALeRCE (Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events) processes the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) alert stream in preparation for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, classifying objects using a broad taxonomy. The ALeRCE light…

The recent advances in Gravitational-wave astronomy have greatly accelerated the study of Multimessenger astrophysics. There is a need for the development of fast and efficient algorithms to detect non-astrophysical transients and noises…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-28 Rahul Nigam , Amit Mishra , Pranath Reddy