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Gaia provided the largest-ever catalogue of white dwarf stars. We use this catalogue, along with the third public data release of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), to identify new eclipsing white dwarf binaries. Our method exploits light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Pascal M. Keller , Elmé Breedt , Simon Hodgkin , Vasily Belokurov , James Wild , Ignacio García-Soriano , Jacob L. Wise

The development of synoptic sky surveys has led to a massive amount of data for which resources needed for analysis are beyond human capabilities. To process this information and to extract all possible knowledge, machine learning…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Isadora Nun , Karim Pichara , Pavlos Protopapas , Dae-Won Kim

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a state-of-the-art optical robotic sky survey, registers on the order of a million transient events - such as supernova explosions, changes in brightness of variable sources, or moving object detections…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-25 Dmitry A. Duev , Stéfan J. van der Walt

Main-sequence dipper stars, characterized by irregular and often aperiodic luminosity dimming events, offer a unique opportunity to explore the variability of circumstellar material and its potential links to planet formation, debris disks,…

Periodic variables illuminate the physical processes of stars throughout their lifetime. Wide-field surveys continue to increase our discovery rates of periodic variable stars. Automated approaches are essential to identify interesting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 H. S. Chan , V. Ashley Villar , S. H. Cheung , Shirley Ho , Anna J. G. O'Grady , Maria R. Drout , Mathieu Renzo

We present the results of a programme to search and identify the nature of unusual sources within the All-sky Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) that is based on a machine-learning algorithm for anomaly detection, namely one-class…

Variable sources probe a wide range of astrophysical phenomena. We present a catalog of over ten million variable source candidates found in Data Release 1 (DR1) of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). We perform a periodicity search up to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Eran O. Ofek , Maayane Soumagnac , Guy Nir , Avishay Gal-Yam , Peter Nugent , Frank Masci , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) was expected to detect more than one strong gravitationally-lensed supernova (glSN) per year, but only one event was identified in the first four years of the survey. This work investigates selection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-04 A. Sagués Carracedo , A. Goobar , E. Mörtsell , N. Arendse , J. Johansson , A. Townsend , S. Dhawan , J. Nordin , J. Sollerman , S. Schulze

Machine learning methods are well established in the classification of quasars (QSOs). However, the advent of light curve observations adds a great amount of complexity to the problem. Our goal is to use the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)…

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has been observing the entire northern sky since the start of 2018 down to a magnitude of 20.5 ($5 \sigma$ for 30s exposure) in $g$, $r$, and $i$ filters. Over the course of two years, ZTF has obtained…

The classification of variable objects provides insight into a wide variety of astrophysics ranging from stellar interiors to galactic nuclei. The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) provides time series observations that record the variability…

The periodic pulsations of stars teach us about their underlying physical process. We present a convolutional autoencoder-based pipeline as an automatic approach to search for out-of-distribution anomalous periodic variables within The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-30 H. S. Chan , S. H. Cheung , V. Ashley Villar , Shirley Ho

We studied Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) light curves of 34 dwarf nova candidates discovered by All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) between 2020 May 12 and September 9 and found 6 AM CVn-type candidates. All objects showed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Taichi Kato , Naoto Kojiguchi

Automating real-time anomaly detection is essential for identifying rare transients, with modern survey telescopes generating tens of thousands of alerts per night, and future telescopes, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, projected to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 Rithwik Gupta , Daniel Muthukrishna , Michelle Lochner

Magnetic chemically peculiar (mCP) stars exhibit complex atmospheres that allow the investigation of the interplay of atomic diffusion, magnetic fields, and stellar rotation. A non-uniform surface distribution of chemical elements and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-11 N. Faltová , K. Kallová , M. Prišegen , P. Staněk , J. Supíková , C. Xia , K. Bernhard , S. Hümmerich , E. Paunzen

We present analysis of the light curves (LCs) of 77 hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) discovered during the Zwicky Transient Facility Phase-I operation. We find that the majority (67\%) of the sample can be fit equally well…

We present a study of 323 photometrically variable young stellar objects that are likely members of the North America and Pelican (NAP) nebulae star forming region. To do so, we utilize over two years of data in the $g$ and $r$ photometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Thaddaeus J. Kiker , Miles Gee , Owen Lester , Noah L. Braunfeld , Luisa M. Rebull , Michael A. Kuhn