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We present a first systematic time series study of a sample of blazars observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite $\textit{TESS}$ spacecraft. By cross matching the positions of the sources in the TESS observations with those from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-23 Vivek Reddy Pininti , Gopal Bhatta , Sagarika Paul , Aman Kumar , Aayushi Rajgor , Rahul Barnwal , Sarvesh Gharat

We present the results of a search for rapidly evolving transients in the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Programme. These events are characterized by fast light curve evolution (rise to peak in $\lesssim 10$ d and exponential decline in…

We present an untriggered search for optical bursts with the ROTSE-I telephoto array. Observations were taken which monitor an effective 256 square degree field continuously over 125 hours to m_{ROTSE}=15.7. The uniquely large field,…

We report the discovery of a transient seen in a strongly lensed arc at redshift $z_{\rm s}=1.2567$ in \emph{Hubble Space Telescope} imaging of the Abell 370 galaxy cluster. The transient is detected at $29.51\pm0.14$ AB mag in a WFC3/UVIS…

We present observations of SCP 06F6, an unusual optical transient discovered during the Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey. The transient brightened over a period of ~100 days, reached a peak magnitude of ~21.0 in both i_775…

We report on the serendipitous discovery of three transient mm-wave sources using data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. The first, detected at RA = 273.8138, dec = -49.4628 at ${\sim}50\sigma$ total, brightened from less than 5 mJy to…

[ABRIDGED] We report the results of a 944-epoch survey for transient sources with archival data from the Very Large Array spanning 22 years with a typical epoch separation of 7 days. Observations were obtained at 5 or 8.4 GHz for a single…

Optical transient surveys continue to generate increasingly large datasets, prompting the introduction of machine-learning algorithms to search for quality transient candidates efficiently. Existing machine-learning infrastructure can be…

The Tsinghua University-National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) Transient Survey (TNTS) is an automatic survey for a systematic exploration of optical transients (OTs), conducted with a 60/90 cm Schmidt telescope at Xinglong…

The sensitivity and field of view of the MeerKAT radio telescope provides excellent opportunities for commensal transient searches. We carry out a commensal transient search in supernova and short gamma-ray burst fields using methodologies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 S. I. Chastain , A. J. van der Horst , A. Horesh , A. Rowlinson , A. Andersson , R. Diretse , M. Vaccari , R. P. Fender , P. A. Woudt

Recently, 59 low-luminosity object transits were reported from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE). Our follow-up low-resolution spectroscopy of 16 candidates provided two objects, OGLE-TR-3 and OGLE-TR-10, which have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Dreizler , P. Hauschildt , W. Kley , T. Rauch , S. L. Schuh , K. Werner , B. Wolff

We present the HST ACS G800L grism spectroscopy observation of the faint active galactic nuclei (AGN) candidates in the COSMOS field at redshift of 6 selected by the point-source morphology and the photometry drop-off at 8000\AA. Among the…

We present the results of a search for potential transit signals in the first three years of photometry data acquired by the Kepler Mission. The targets of the search include 112,321 targets which were observed over the full interval and an…

We present SPLOT, a small scale pilot survey to test the potential of snapshot (single epoch) linear imaging polarimetry as a supplementary tool to traditional transient follow-up. Transients exist in a vast volume of observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-05 A. B. Higgins , K. Wiersema , S. Covino , R. L. C. Starling , H. F. Stevance , Ł. Wyrzykowski , S. T. Hodgkin , J. R. Maund , P. T. O'Brien , N. R. Tanvir

We describe the Wise Observatory Optical Transient Search (WOOTS), a survey for supernovae (SNe) and other variable and transient objects in the fields of redshift 0.06-0.2 Abell galaxy clusters. We present the survey design and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avishay Gal-Yam , Dan Maoz , Puragra Guhathakurta , Alexei V. Filippenko

The photometric data collected during 2001 season OGLE-III planetary/low luminosity object transit campaign were reanalyzed with the new transit search technique -- the BLS method by Kovacs, Zucker and Mazeh. In addition to all presented in…

Optical transients with timescale of months, such as supernovae (SNe) and tidal disruption events (TDEs), are candidates of high-energy neutrino sources. Multiple neutrino detections from the same direction within a month timescale provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Seiji Toshikage , Shigeo S. Kimura , Nobuhiro Shimizu , Masaomi Tanaka , Shigeru Yoshida , Wataru B. Iwakiri , Tomoki Morokuma

Though missions devoted to time series photometry focus primarily on targets far beyond the solar system, their observations can be contaminated by foreground minor planets, especially near the ecliptic plane where solar system objects are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Ben Cassese , Justin Vega , Daniel A. Yahalomi , David Gelpi , Eva Marmolejos , Aneisa Rampersaud , Aware Deshmukh , Ruth Angus , Malena Rice