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Wide field small aperture telescopes are widely used for optical transient observations. Detection and classification of astronomical targets in observed images are the most important and basic step. In this paper, we propose an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Peng Jia , Qiang Liu , Yongyang Sun

Accurate classification of transients obtained from spectroscopic data are important to understand their nature and discover new classes of astronomical objects. For supernovae (SNe), SNID, NGSF (a Python version of SuperFit), and DASH are…

We present an unsupervised, data-driven framework for rapid characterisation of astronomical photometric time series using a Multi-Time Attention Network. The model learns time-aware latent representations directly from irregular, partial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Yash Gondhalekar , Anais Möller , Paula Sánchez-Sáez

Accurate classification of celestial objects is essential for advancing our understanding of the universe. MargNet is a recently developed deep learning-based classifier applied to SDSS DR16 dataset to segregate stars, quasars, and compact…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-29 Srinadh Reddy Bhavanam , Sumohana S. Channappayya , P. K. Srijith , Shantanu Desai

Gravitationally lensed supernovae (SNe) are extremely rare and fade quickly; as a result, they are challenging to detect. To identify lensed SNe in large imaging datasets, current surveys primarily rely on the {\it magnification} effect of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-24 Fawad Kirmani , Arjun Karki , Steve Rodney , Kyle Lackey , Varsha P. Kulkarni , John R. Rose , Justin Pierel

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…

With the advent of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), time-domain astronomy will be faced with an unprecedented volume and rate of data. Real-time processing of variables and transients detected by such large-scale surveys is…

The search for fast optical transients, such as the expected electromagnetic counterparts to binary neutron star mergers, is riddled with false positives ranging from asteroids to stellar flares. While moving objects are readily rejected…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-23 A. A. Miller , M. K. Kulkarni , Y. Cao , R. R. Laher , F. J. Masci , J. A. Surace

Lasair is the UK Community Broker for transient alerts from the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. We explain the system's capabilities, how users can achieve their scientific goals, and how Lasair is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-15 Roy D. Williams , Gareth P. Francis , Andy Lawrence , Terence M. Sloan , Stephen J. Smartt , Ken W. Smith , David R. Young

The task of event detection and classification is central to most information retrieval applications. We show that a Transformer based architecture can effectively model event extraction as a sequence labeling task. We propose a combination…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Parul Awasthy , Tahira Naseem , Jian Ni , Taesun Moon , Radu Florian

The Roman Space Telescope, equipped with a 2.4 meter primary mirror and optical--NIR wide-field camera, promises to revolutionize our understanding of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics. One of the Roman Core Community…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Belal Abdelhadi , David Rubin

We develop a hybrid framework to identify kilonovae (KNe), using single-epoch, medium-band spectral energy distributions from the 7-Dimensional Telescope (7DT). The framework integrates an unsupervised anomaly classifier (\texttt{Isolation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Gregory S. H. Paek , Myungshin Im , Seo-Won Chang , Hyeonho Choi , Ji Hoon Kim

For survival, a living agent must have the ability to assess risk (1) by temporally anticipating accidents before they occur, and (2) by spatially localizing risky regions in the environment to move away from threats. In this paper, we take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Kuo-Hao Zeng , Shih-Han Chou , Fu-Hsiang Chan , Juan Carlos Niebles , Min Sun

Strong gravitational lensing of supernovae is exceedingly rare. To date, only a handful of lensed supernovae are known. Despite this, lensed supernovae have emerged as a promising method for measuring the current expansion rate of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 M. R. Magee , A. Sainz de Murieta , T. E. Collett , W. Enzi

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

In 2016, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory launched its realtime program. When a neutrino candidate of likely astrophysical origin is detected, a public alert is issued, typically within one minute. These alerts allow the astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Giacomo Sommani , Tianlu Yuan

(abridged) Ongoing supernova (SN) surveys find hundreds of candidates, that require confirmation for their use. Traditional classification based on followup spectroscopy of all candidates is virtually impossible for these large samples. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dovi Poznanski , Dan Maoz , Avishay Gal-Yam

With the installation of a new phased array system called Apertif, the instantaneous field of view of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) has increased to 8.7$\,$deg$^2$. This system has turned the WSRT in to an highly effective…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-13 Yogesh Maan , Joeri van Leeuwen

We design and successfully implement artificial neural networks (ANNs) to detect and classify entanglement for three-qubit systems using limited state features. The overall design principle is a feed forward neural network (FFNN), with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Jorawar Singh , Vaishali Gulati , Kavita Dorai , Arvind