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We present a new approach to observationally constrain where the tails of Jellyfish (JF) galaxies in groups and clusters first appear and how long they remain visible with respect to the moment of their orbital pericenter. This is…

Modern time-domain surveys like the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) generate hundreds of thousands to millions of alerts, demanding automatic, unified classification of transients and variable…

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is performing a three-day cadence survey of the visible Northern sky (~3$\pi$). The transient candidates found in this survey are announced via public alerts. As a supplementary product ZTF is also…

Fast variability of optical objects is an interesting though poorly explored subject in modern astronomy. Real-time data processing and identification of transient celestial events in the images is very important for such study as it allows…

i-TED is an innovative detection system which exploits Compton imaging techniques to achieve a superior signal-to-background ratio in ($n,\gamma$) cross-section measurements using time-of-flight technique. This work presents the first…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-17 V. Babiano-Suárez , J. Lerendegui-Marco , J. Balibrea-Correa , L. Caballero , D. Calvo , I. Ladarescu , C. Domingo-Pardo , F. Calviño , A. Casanovas , A. Tarifeño-Saldivia , V. Alcayne , C. Guerrero , M. A. Millán-Callado , M. T. Rodríguez González , M. Barbagallo , O. Aberle , S. Amaducci , J. Andrzejewski , L. Audouin , M. Bacak , S. Bennett , E. Berthoumieux , J. Billowes , D. Bosnar , A. Brown , M. Busso , M. Caamaño , M. Calviani , D. Cano-Ott , F. Cerutti , E. Chiaveri , N. Colonna , G. Cortés , M. A. Cortés-Giraldo , L. Cosentino , S. Cristallo , L. A. Damone , P. J. Davies , M. Diakaki , M. Dietz , R. Dressler , Q. Ducasse , E. Dupont , I. Durán , Z. Eleme , B. Fern\' , ez-Domínguez , A. Ferrari , P. Finocchiaro , V. Furman , K. Göbel , R. Garg , A. Gawlik , S. Gilardoni , I. F. Gonçalves , E. González-Romero , F. Gunsing , H. Harada , S. Heinitz , J. Heyse , D. G. Jenkins , A. Junghans , F. Käppeler , Y. Kadi , A. Kimura , I. Knapova , M. Kokkoris , Y. Kopatch , M. Krtička , D. Kurtulgil , C. Lederer-Woods , H. Leeb , S. J. Lonsdale , D. Macina , A. Manna , T. Martinez , A. Masi , C. Massimi , P. Mastinu , M. Mastromarco , E. A. Maugeri , A. Mazzone , E. Mendoza , A. Mengoni , V. Michalopoulou , P. M. Milazzo , F. Mingrone , J. Moreno-Soto , A. Musumarra , A. Negret , F. Ogállar , A. Oprea , N. Patronis , A. Pavlik , J. Perkowski , L. Persanti , C. Petrone , E. Pirovano , I. Porras , J. Praena , J. M. Quesada , D. Ramos-Doval , T. Rauscher , R. Reifarth , D. Rochman , C. Rubbia , M. Sabaté-Gilarte , A. Saxena , P. Schillebeeckx , D. Schumann , A. Sekhar , A. G. Smith , N. V. Sosnin , P. Sprung , A. Stamatopoulos , G. Tagliente , J. L. Tain , L. Tassan-Got , Th. Thomas , P. Torres-Sánchez , A. Tsinganis , J. Ulrich , S. Urlass , S. Valenta , G. Vannini , V. Variale , P. Vaz , A. Ventura , D. Vescovi , V. Vlachoudis , R. Vlastou , A. Wallner , P. J. Woods , T. Wright , P. Žugec

The Zwicky Transient Facility is a new robotic-observing program, in which a newly engineered 600-MP digital camera with a pioneeringly large field of view, 47~square degrees, will be installed into the 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope at…

Deep learning techniques have been well explored in the transiting exoplanet field; however, previous work mainly focuses on classification and inspection. In this work, we develop a novel detection algorithm based on a well proven object…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Kaiming Cui , Junjie Liu , Fabo Feng , Jifeng Liu

We provide the first results from the complete SNAD adaptive learning pipeline in the context of a broad scope of data from large-scale astronomical surveys. The main goal of this work is to explore the potential of adaptive learning…

A morphological and photometric analysis of the naked-eye long-period comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) before perihelion is presented in this study. The observation images taken by the Zwicky Transient Facility survey telescope from July 2022 to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-27 Bin Liu , Xiaodong Liu

We describe the fast transient classification algorithm in the center of the kilonova (KN) science module currently implemented in the Fink broker and report classification results based on simulated catalogs and real data from the ZTF…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 B. Biswas , E. E. O. Ishida , J. Peloton , A. Moller , M. V. Pruzhinskaya , R. S. de Souza , D. Muthukrishna

We present results from applying the SNAD anomaly detection pipeline to the third public data release of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF DR3). The pipeline is composed of 3 stages: feature extraction, search of outliers with machine…

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…

Robust point cloud registration in real-time is an important prerequisite for many mapping and localization algorithms. Traditional methods like ICP tend to fail without good initialization, insufficient overlap or in the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Kai Fischer , Martin Simon , Florian Oelsner , Stefan Milz , Horst-Michael Gross , Patrick Maeder

We present the Deep-learning Transient Astronomical Object (Deep-TAO), a dataset of 1,249,079 annotated images from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey, including 3,807 transient and 12,500 non-transient sequences. Deep-TAO has been…

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The current data acquisition rate of astronomical transient surveys and the promise for significantly higher rates during in the next decade necessitate the development of novel approaches to analyze astronomical data sets and promptly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-28 Robert Strausbaugh , Antonino Cucchiara , Michael Dow , Sara Webb , Jielai Zhang , Simon Goode , Jeff Cooke

Planetary materials orbiting white dwarf stars reveal the ultimate fate of the planets of the Solar System and all known transiting exoplanets. Observed metal pollution and infrared excesses from debris disks support that planetary systems…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Keaton J. Bell

While modern visual recognition systems have made significant advancements, many continue to struggle with the open problem of learning from few exemplars. This paper focuses on the task of object detection in the setting where object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Phi Vu Tran

Observations of C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) comet were carried out on 7th February, 2015, at the observation station in Mayaki village (No. 583 -- Odesa-Mayaki observatory). The integrated-light photometry of the comet was conducted using RC-800…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-11-19 Valery V. Kleschonok , Igor V. Luk'yanyk , Yury M. Gorbanev , Volodymyr Kashuba

A deep-learning approach based on the transformer architecture is developed to distinguish between jets originating from quarks and gluons. The algorithm operates on jets with transverse momentum $p_{\text{T}} > 20$ and pseudorapidity…

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