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Sensitive signal processing methods are needed to detect transiting planets from ground-based photometric surveys. Caceres et al. (2019) show that the AutoRegressive Planet Search (ARPS) method --- a combination of autoregressive integrated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Andrew M. Stuhr , Eric D. Feigelson , Gabriel A. Caceres , Joel D. Hartman

The Transient Optical Sky Survey (TOSS) is an automated, ground-based telescope system dedicated to searching for optical transient events. Small telescope tubes are mounted on a tracking, semi-equatorial frame with a single polar axis.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-05 E. Hadjiyska , G. Hughes , P. Lubin , S. Taylor , R. Hartong-Redden , J. Zierten

An efficient and accurate traffic monitoring system often takes advantages of multi-sensor detection to ensure the safety of urban traffic, promoting the accuracy and robustness of target detection and tracking. A method for target…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Ming Zong , Jiaying Wu , Zhanyu Zhu , Jingen Ni

Strong variations of any kind and causes within a stellar light curve may prohibit the detection of transits, particularly of faint or shallow transits caused by small planets passing in front of the stellar disk. The success of future…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-29 Sascha Grziwa , Martin Pätzold

Current synoptic sky surveys monitor large areas of the sky to find variable and transient astronomical sources. As the number of detections per night at a single telescope easily exceeds several thousand, current detection pipelines make…

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-04 Gianmario Broccia

Though the ultraviolet (UV) domain plays a vital role in the studies of astronomical transient events, the UV time-domain sky remains largely unexplored. We have designed a wide-field UV imager that can be flown on a range of available…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Joice Mathew , S. Ambily , Ajin Prakash , Mayuresh Sarpotdar , K. Nirmal , A. G. Sreejith , Margarita Safonova , Jayant Murthy , Noah Brosch

The timing-based localization, which utilize the triangulation principle with the different arrival time of gamma-ray photons, with a fleet of Cubesats is a unique and powerful solution for the future all-sky gamma-ray observation, which is…

The Rapid Telescopes for Optical Response (RAPTOR) experiment is a spatially distributed system of autonomous robotic telescopes that is designed to monitor the sky for optical transients. The core of the system is composed of two telescope…

Object detection is a cornerstone of environmental perception in advanced driver assistance systems(ADAS). However, most existing methods rely on RGB cameras, which suffer from significant performance degradation under low-light conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hao Wu , Junzhou Chen , Ronghui Zhang , Nengchao Lyu , Hongyu Hu , Yanyong Guo , Tony Z. Qiu

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

Detecting distributional drift in high-dimensional data streams presents fundamental challenges: global comparison methods scale poorly, projection-based approaches lose geometric structure, and re-clustering methods suffer from identity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Anantha Sharma

Ultra Fast Astronomy is a new frontier becoming enabled by improved detector technology allowing discovery of optical transients on millisecond to nanosecond time scales. These may reveal counterparts of energetic processes such as fast…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-08 Mikhail Denissenya , Eric V. Linder

We present a new algorithm for detecting transiting extrasolar planets in time-series photometry. The Quasiperiodic Automated Transit Search (QATS) algorithm relaxes the usual assumption of strictly periodic transits by permitting a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Joshua A. Carter , Eric Agol

Fluorescence-based Ca$^{2+}$-imaging is a powerful tool for studying localized neuronal activity, including miniature Synaptic Calcium Transients, providing real-time insights into synaptic activity. These transients induce only subtle…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-25 Bolin Fan , Anthony Bilodeau , Frederic Beaupre , Theresa Wiesner , Christian Gagne , Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal , Renee Hlozek

Low-cost mini-drones with advanced sensing and maneuverability enable a new class of intelligent sensing systems. To achieve the full potential of such drones, it is necessary to develop new enhanced formulations of both common and emerging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Ahmed Saeed , Ahmed Abdelkader , Mouhyemen Khan , Azin Neishaboori , Khaled A. Harras , Amr Mohamed

We introduce the Wide-field Retrieval of Astrodata Program (WRAP), a tool created to aid astronomers in gathering photometric and astrometric data for point sources that may confuse simple cross-matching algorithms because of their…

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

The most significant challenge currently facing photometric surveys for transiting gas-giant planets is that of confusion with eclipsing binary systems that mimic the photometric signature. A simple way to reject most forms of these false…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lewis Kotredes , David Charbonneau , Dagny L. Looper , Francis T. O'Donovan

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…