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Modern time-domain surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), detect far more extragalactic transients than can be spectroscopically classified. Photometric classification offers a scalable alternative, enabling the…

The Asteroid Terrestrial impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) system consists of two 0.5m Schmidt telescopes with cameras covering 29 square degrees at plate scale of 1.86 arcsec per pixel. Working in tandem, the telescopes routinely survey the…

We present LAISS (Lightcurve Anomaly Identification and Similarity Search), an automated pipeline to detect anomalous astrophysical transients in real-time data streams. We deploy our anomaly detection model on the nightly ZTF Alert Stream…

The Arizona-NOAO Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System (ANTARES) is a joint project of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Arizona. The goal is to build the…

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Large-scale astronomical surveys have the potential to capture data on large numbers of strongly gravitationally lensed supernovae (LSNe). To facilitate timely analysis and spectroscopic follow-up before the supernova fades, an LSN needs to…

Lensed supernovae (SNae) are among the most eagerly anticipated transients expected from the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Quadruply lensed SNae permit more highly constrained models than "mere" doubles. The quadruply lensed SN…

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Modern time-domain astronomical surveys produce high throughput data streams which require tools for processing and analysis. This will be critical for programs making full use of the alert stream from the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO),…

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In the last years, the need for automated real-time detection and classification of astronomical transients began to be more impelling. Better technologies involve a higher number of detected candidates and an automated classification will…

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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…

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We describe ZStreak, a semi-real-time pipeline specialized in detecting small, fast-moving near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) that is currently operating on the data from the newly-commissioned Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey. Based on a…

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We present ORACLE, the first hierarchical deep-learning model for real-time, context-aware classification of transient and variable astrophysical phenomena. ORACLE is a recurrent neural network with Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs), and has…

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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…

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New time-domain surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will observe millions of transient alerts each night, making standard approaches of visually identifying new and interesting transients…

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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…

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With large numbers of transients discovered by current and future imaging surveys, machine learning is increasingly applied to light curve and host galaxy properties to select events for follow-up. However, finding rare types of transients…

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By constantly monitoring at least one complete hemisphere of the sky, neutrino telescopes are well designed to detect neutrinos emitted by transient astrophysical events. Real-time searches with the ANTARES telescope have been performed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-27 A. Albert , S. Alves , M. André , M. Ardid , S. Ardid , J. -J. Aubert , J. Aublin , B. Baret , S. Basa , B. Belhorma , M. Bendahman , F. Benfenati , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , M. Bissinger , J. Boumaaza , M. Bouta , M. C. Bouwhuis , H. Brânzaş , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , J. Busto , B. Caiffi , D. Calvo , S. Campion , A. Capone , L. Caramete , J. Carr , V. Carretero , S. Celli , M. Chabab , T. N. Chau , R. Cherkaoui El Moursli , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , J. A. B. Coelho , A. Coleiro , R. Coniglione , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , A. F. Díaz , B. De Martino , C. Distefano , I. Di Palma , A. Domi , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , D. Drouhin , T. Eberl , T. van Eeden , D. van Eijk , N. El Khayati , A. Enzenhöfer , M. Fasano , P. Fermani , G. Ferrara , F. Filippini , L. Fusco , S. Gagliardini , J. García , P. Gay , N. Geißelbrecht , H. Glotin , R. Gozzini , R. Gracia Ruiz , K. Graf , C. Guidi , L. Haegel , S. Hallmann , H. van Haren , A. J. Heijboer , Y. Hello , J. J. Hernández-Rey , J. Hößl , J. Hofestädt , F. Huang , G. Illuminati , C. W. James , B. Jisse-Jung , M. de Jong , P. de Jong , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , U. Katz , A. Kouchner , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy , R. Lahmann , M. Lamoureux , D. Lefèvre , E. Leonora , G. Levi , S. Le Stum , D. Lopez-Coto , S. Loucatos , L. Maderer , J. Manczak , M. Marcelin , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , J. A. Martínez-Mora , K. Melis , P. Migliozzi , A. Moussa , R. Muller , L. Nauta , S. Navas , E. Nezri , B. Ó Fearraigh , A. Păun , G. E. Păvălaş , C. Pellegrino , M. Perrin-Terrin , V. Pestel , P. Piattelli , C. Pieterse , C. Poirè , V. Popa , T. Pradier , N. Randazzo , D. Real , S. Reck , G. Riccobene , A. Romanov , A. Saina , A. Sánchez-Losa , F. Salesa Greus , D. F. E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , J. Schnabel , J. Schumann , F. Schüssler , J. Seneca , M. Spurio , Th. Stolarczyk , M. Taiuti , Y. Tayalati , S. J. Tingay , B. Vallage , V. Van Elewyck , F. Versari , S. Viola , D. Vivolo , J. Wilms , S. Zavatarelli , A. Zegarelli , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

We report the automatic detection of 11 transients (7 possible supernovae and 4 active galactic nuclei candidates) within the Zwicky Transient Facility fourth data release (ZTF DR4), all of them observed in 2018 and absent from public…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 P. D. Aleo , K. L. Malanchev , M. V. Pruzhinskaya , E. E. O. Ishida , E. Russeil , M. V. Kornilov , V. S. Korolev , S. Sreejith , A. A. Volnova , G. S. Narayan