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The signal of continuous gravitational waves has a longer duration than the observation period. Even if the waveform in the source frame is monochromatic, we will observe the waveform with modulated frequencies due to the motion of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-05 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Takahiro Tanaka

The past decades have witnessed a lot of progress in gravitational lensing with two main targets: stars and galaxies (with active galactic nuclei). The success is partially attributed to the continuous luminescence of these sources making…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-08 Kai Liao , Marek Biesiada , Zong-Hong Zhu

We introduce a novel modeling pipeline for strongly lensed point sources, using the GIGA-Lens framework, running on four A100 GPUs via the JAX platform. Using simulations, we demonstrate accurate and precise recovery of image positions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Saul Baltasar , Nicolas Ratier-Werbin , Xiaosheng Huang , W. Sheu , C. J. Storfer , Y. -M. Hsu , Sean Xu , David J. Schlegel

During the last decade, a considerable amount of effort has been made to classify variable stars using different machine learning techniques. Typically, light curves are represented as vectors of statistical descriptors or features that are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Carlos Aguirre , Karim Pichara , Ignacio Becker

We present 83,717,159 light curves for 56,401,549 stars with T < 16 mag observed in the Full-Frame Images (FFIs) of Cycle 1 of the NASA TESS mission. These light curves were extracted from subtracted images produced by the Cluster…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 Joel Hartman , Gáspár Bakos , Luke G. Bouma , Zoltan Csubry

The rise of synoptic sky surveys has ushered in an era of big data in time-domain astronomy, making data science and machine learning essential tools for studying celestial objects. While tree-based models (e.g. Random Forests) and deep…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 Siddharth Chaini , Ashish Mahabal , Ajit Kembhavi , Federica B. Bianco

Since 2008 August the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided continuous coverage of the gamma-ray sky yielding more than 5000 gamma-ray sources, but 54% of the detected sources remain with no certain or unknown association with a low…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-01 Chiaro G. , Kovacevic M. , La Mura G

In this letter, a fast Fourier transform (FFT)-enhanced low-complexity super-resolution sensing algorithm for near-field source localization with both angle and range estimation is proposed. Most traditional near-field source localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Yuxiao Wu , Huizhi Wang , Yong Zeng

The extraction of information carried by light plays an increasingly important role in optical communication, imaging, and detection. However, the information can only be successfully extracted when the light pulse is comparably strong,…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhen Yang , Zeng-Quan Yan , Li Wang , Xiao-Wei Wang , Ka-Di Zhu , Xian-Min Jin

AM CVn systems are a rare type of accreting binary that consists of a white dwarf and a helium-rich, degenerate donor star. Using the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), we searched for new AM CVn systems by focusing on blue, outbursting…

The FORS Deep Field project is a multi-colour, multi-object spectroscopic investigation of an approx. 7 times 7 region near the south galactic pole based mostly on observations carried out with the FORS instruments attached to the VLT…

Wide-field time domain facilities detect transient events in large numbers through difference imaging. For example, Zwicky Transient Facility produces alerts for hundreds of thousands of transient events per night, a rate set to be dwarfed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 D. Mistry , C. M. Copperwheat , M. J. Darnley , I. Olier

We present griz light curves of 251 Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first 3 years of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program's (DES-SN) spectroscopically classified sample. The photometric pipeline described in this paper produces the…

Modern time-domain astronomy will benefit from the vast data collected by survey telescopes. The 2.5 m Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST), with its powerful capabilities, is promising to make significant contributions in the era of large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Yongling Tang , Lulu Fan , Zhen Wan , Yating Liu , Yan Lu

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey has identified a large number of new transient sources in a 300 sq. deg. region along the celestial equator during its first two seasons of a three-season campaign. Multi-band (ugriz) light…

In this second paper on the DECam deep drilling field (DDF) program we release 2,020 optical gri-band light curves for transients and variables in the extragalactic COSMOS and ELAIS fields based on time series observations with a 3-day…

Planck LFI (Low Frequency Instrument) will produce a complete survey of the sky at millimeter wavelengths. Data stream analysis will provide the possibility to reveal unexpected millimeter sources and to study their flux evolution in time…

The ROTSE-I experiment has generated CCD photometry for the entire Northern sky in two epochs nightly since March 1998. These sky patrol data are a powerful resource for studies of astrophysical transients. As a demonstration project, we…

Transient detection and flux measurement via image subtraction stand at the base of time domain astronomy. Due to the varying seeing conditions, the image subtraction process is non-trivial, and existing solutions suffer from a variety of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Barak Zackay , Eran O. Ofek , Avishay Gal-Yam