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As new facilities come online, the astronomical community will be provided with extremely large datasets of well-sampled light curves (LCs) of transient objects. This motivates systematic studies of the light curves of supernovae (SNe) of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-21 Adam Rubin , Avishay Gal-Yam

We present {\tt deepSIP} (deep learning of Supernova Ia Parameters), a software package for measuring the phase and -- for the first time using deep learning -- the light-curve shape of a Type Ia supernova (SN~Ia) from an optical spectrum.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Benjamin E. Stahl , Jorge Martinez-Palomera , WeiKang Zheng , Thomas de Jaeger , Alexei V. Filippenko , Joshua S. Bloom

In order to efficiently analyse the vast amount of data generated by solar space missions and ground-base instruments, modern machine learning techniques such as decision trees, support vector machines (SVMs) and neural networks can be very…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-28 Teri Love , Thomas Neukirch , Clare E. Parnell

Automatic classification of trees using remotely sensed data has been a dream of many scientists and land use managers. Recently, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has been expected to be an easy-to-use, cost-effective tool for remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Masanori Onishi , Takeshi Ise

In modern astrophysics, the machine learning has increasingly gained more popularity with its incredibly powerful ability to make predictions or calculated suggestions for large amounts of data. We describe an application of the supervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-26 Yu Bai , JiFeng Liu , Song Wang , Fan Yang

While significant advances have been made in photometric classification ahead of the millions of transient events and hundreds of supernovae (SNe) each night that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-12 Willow Fox Fortino , Federica B. Bianco , Pavlos Protopapas , Daniel Muthukrishna , Austin Brockmeier

Given the ever-increasing number of time-domain astronomical surveys, employing robust, interpretative, and automated data-driven classification schemes is pivotal. Based on graph theory, we present new data-driven classification heuristics…

A Galactic core-collapse supernova (CCSN) is likely to be observed in neutrino detectors around the world minutes to hours before the electromagnetic radiation arrives. The SNEWS2.0 network of neutrino and dark matter detectors aims to use…

Automated photometric supernova classification has become an active area of research in recent years in light of current and upcoming imaging surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, given that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-08 Michelle Lochner , Jason D. McEwen , Hiranya V. Peiris , Ofer Lahav , Max K. Winter

This paper presents a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) approach for counting and locating objects in high-density imagery. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first object counting and locating method based on a feature map…

$Context.$ Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are expected to emit gravitational wave signals that could be detected by current and future generation interferometers within the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. The stochastic nature of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 Alberto Iess , Elena Cuoco , Filip Morawski , Constantina Nicolaou , Ofer Lahav

We present an image classification algorithm using deep learning convolutional neural network architecture, which classifies the morphologies of eclipsing binary systems based on their light curves. The algorithm trains the machine with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-06 Burak Ulas

During the last decade, considerable effort has been made to perform automatic classification of variable stars using machine learning techniques. Traditionally, light curves are represented as a vector of descriptors or features used as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Ignacio Becker , Karim Pichara , Márcio Catelan , Pavlos Protopapas , Carlos Aguirre , Fatemeh Nikzat

Strongly lensed type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) provide a unique cosmological probe to address the Hubble tension problem in cosmology. In addition to the sensitivity of the time delays to the value of the Hubble constant, the transient and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-27 Prajakta Mane , Anupreeta More , Surhud More

We propose a new strategy of finding strongly-lensed supernovae (SNe) by monitoring known galaxy-scale strong-lens systems. Strongly lensed SNe are potentially powerful tools for the study of cosmology, galaxy evolution, and stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Yiping Shu , Adam S. Bolton , Shude Mao , Xi Kang , Guoliang Li , Monika Soraisam

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

We present a spatio-temporal AI framework that concurrently exploits both the spatial and time-variable features of gravitationally lensed supernovae in optical images to ultimately aid in future discoveries of such exotic transients in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Nikki Arendse , Radosław Wojtak

Large numbers of supernovae (SNe) have been discovered in recent years, and many more will be found in the near future. Once discovered, further study of a SN and its possible use as an astronomical tool (e.g., as a distance estimator)…

We present an algorithm to identify the type of an SN spectrum and to determine its redshift and age. This algorithm, based on the correlation techniques of Tonry & Davis, is implemented in the Supernova Identification (SNID) code. It is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Stéphane Blondin , John L. Tonry