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This paper investigates the applicability of time and time-frequency features based classifiers to distinguish internal faults and other transients - magnetizing inrush, sympathetic inrush, external faults with current transformer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Pallav Kumar Bera , Can Isik

In astronomical surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility, supernovae (SNe) are relatively uncommon objects compared to other classes of variable events. Along with this scarcity, the processing of multi-band light-curves is a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Óscar Pimentel , Pablo A. Estévez , Francisco Förster

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

With the upcoming commensal surveys for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), and their high candidate rate, usage of machine learning algorithms for candidate classification is a necessity. Such algorithms will also play a pivotal role in sending…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-26 Devansh Agarwal , Kshitij Aggarwal , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , Duncan R. Lorimer , Nathaniel Garver-Daniels

We introduce the Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events (ALeRCE) broker, an astronomical alert broker designed to provide a rapid and self--consistent classification of large etendue telescope alert streams, such as that…

We report on serendipitous Euclid observations of previously known transients, using the Euclid Q1 data release. By cross-matching with the Transient Name Server (TNS) we identify 164 transients that coincide with the data release. Although…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 C. Duffy , E. Cappellaro , M. T. Botticella , I. M. Hook , F. Poidevin , T. J. Moriya , A. A. Chrimes , V. Petrecca , K. Paterson , A. Goobar , L. Galbany , R. Kotak , C. Gall , C. M. Gutierrez , C. Tao , L. Izzo , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , A. Basset , P. Battaglia , A. Biviano , A. Bonchi , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , R. Casas , S. Casas , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , A. M. Di Giorgio , C. Dolding , H. Dole , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , A. Ealet , S. Escoffier , M. Farina , F. Faustini , S. Ferriol , S. Fotopoulou , M. Frailis , P. Franzetti , S. Galeotta , K. George , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , P. Gómez-Alvarez , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. Gwyn , S. V. H. Haugan , J. Hoar , H. Hoekstra , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , B. Kubik , K. Kuijken , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , Q. Le Boulc'h , A. M. C. Le Brun , D. Le Mignant , P. Liebing , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , E. Medinaceli , M. Melchior , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , P. W. Morris , L. Moscardini , C. Neissner , R. C. Nichol , S. -M. Niemi , J. W. Nightingale , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , J. A. Schewtschenko , M. Schirmer , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , P. Simon , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. Skottfelt , L. Stanco , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , Y. Wang , J. Weller , A. Zacchei , G. Zamorani , F. M. Zerbi , E. Zucca , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , L. Gabarra , V. Scottez , D. Scott , M. Sullivan

Large sky surveys are increasingly relying on image subtraction pipelines for real-time (and archival) transient detection. In this process one has to contend with varying PSF, small brightness variations in many sources, as well as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Nima Sedaghat , Ashish Mahabal

Time-domain surveys such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) have opened a new frontier in the discovery and characterization of transients. While photometric light curves provide broad temporal coverage, spectroscopic observations…

Recent differentiable rendering techniques have become key tools to tackle many inverse problems in graphics and vision. Existing models, however, assume steady-state light transport, i.e., infinite speed of light. While this is a safe…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Shinyoung Yi , Donggun Kim , Kiseok Choi , Adrian Jarabo , Diego Gutierrez , Min H. Kim

We present DeepStreaks, a convolutional-neural-network, deep-learning system designed to efficiently identify streaking fast-moving near-Earth objects that are detected in the data of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a wide-field,…

This study presents a bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network for classifying transient astronomical object light curves from the Photometric LSST Astronomical Time-series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC) dataset. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Guilherme Grancho D. Fernandes , Marco A. Barroca , Mateus dos Santos , Rafael S. Oliveira

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

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 presents some unusual challenges: the data are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 S. G. Djorgovski , A. A. Mahabal , C. Donalek , M. J. Graham , A. J. Drake , B. Moghaddam , M. Turmon

We introduce Deep-HiTS, a rotation invariant convolutional neural network (CNN) model for classifying images of transients candidates into artifacts or real sources for the High cadence Transient Survey (HiTS). CNNs have the advantage of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Guillermo Cabrera-Vives , Ignacio Reyes , Francisco Förster , Pablo A. Estévez , Juan-Carlos Maureira

We propose the Transformer-based Tidal disruption events (TDE) Classifier (\texttt{TTC}), specifically designed to operate effectively with both real-time alert streams and archival data of the Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST). It aims to…

The scientific interest in studying high-energy transient phenomena in the Universe has largely grown for the last decade. Now, multiple ground-based survey projects have emerged to continuously monitor the optical (and multi-messenger)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 K. Makhlouf , D. Turpin , D. Corre , S. Karpov , D. A. Kann , A. Klotz

Exploration of time domain is now a vibrant area of research in astronomy, driven by the advent of digital synoptic sky surveys. While panoramic surveys can detect variable or transient events, typically some follow-up observations are…

This article introduces a novel approach to constructing a topometric map that allows for efficient navigation and decision-making in mobile robotics applications. The method generates the topometric map from a 2D grid-based map. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Scott Fredriksson , Akshit Saradagi , George Nikolakopoulos

Scene understanding plays an essential role in enabling autonomous driving and maintaining high standards of performance and safety. To address this task, cameras and laser scanners (LiDARs) have been the most commonly used sensors, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Yahia Dalbah , Jean Lahoud , Hisham Cholakkal

Over the past decade wide-field optical time-domain surveys have increased the discovery rate of transients to the point that $\lesssim 10\%$ are being spectroscopically classified. Despite this, these surveys have enabled the discovery of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Sebastian Gomez , Edo Berger , Peter K. Blanchard , Griffin Hosseinzadeh , Matt Nicholl , V. Ashley Villar , Yao Yin