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Classification of sources is one of the most important tasks in astronomy. Sources detected in one wavelength band, for example using gamma rays, may have several possible associations in other wavebands, or there may be no plausible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-19 Aakash Bhat , Dmitry Malyshev

$\textbf{Aims}$. With the ever-increasing survey speed of optical wide-field telescopes and the importance of discovering transients when they are still young, rapid and reliable source localization is paramount. We present…

The Fermi-LAT unassociated sources represent some of the most enigmatic gamma-ray sources in the sky. Observations with the Swift-XRT and -UVOT telescopes have identified hundreds of likely X-ray and UV/optical counterparts in the…

We employ an efficient method for identifying gamma-ray sources across the entire sky, leveraging advanced algorithms from Fermi p y, and cleverly utilizing the Galactic diffuse background emission model to partition the entire sky into 72…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-30 Y. C. Xiang , P. Feng , X. F. Lan

The forthcoming generation of radio telescope arrays promises significant advancements in sensitivity and resolution, enabling the identification and characterization of many new faint and diffuse radio sources. Conventional manual…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Chiara Stuardi , Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Andrea Botteon

Using a series of detector measurements taken at different locations to localize a source of radiation is a well-studied problem. The source of radiation is sometimes constrained to a single point-like source, in which case the location of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-06 M. S. Bandstra , D. Hellfeld , J. R. Vavrek , B. J. Quiter , K. Meehan , P. J. Barton , J. W. Cates , A. Moran , V. Negut , R. Pavlovsky , T. H. Y. Joshi

To maximize the discovery potential of future synoptic surveys, especially in the field of transient science, it will be necessary to use automatic classification to identify some of the astronomical sources. The data mining technique of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Kitty K. Lo , Sean Farrell , Tara Murphy , B. M. Gaensler

Detection of point sources in images is a fundamental operation in astrophysics, and is crucial for constraining population models of the underlying point sources or characterizing the background emission. Standard techniques fall short in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Tansu Daylan , Stephen K. N. Portillo , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

X-ray observations play a crucial role in time-domain astronomy. The Einstein Probe (EP), a recently launched X-ray astronomical satellite, emerges as a forefront player in the field of time-domain astronomy and high-energy astrophysics.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Xiaoxiong Zuo , Yihan Tao , Yuan Liu , Yunfei Xu , Wenda Zhang , Haiwu Pan , Hui Sun , Zhen Zhang , Chenzhou Cui , Weimin Yuan

Machine learning is an automatic technique that is revolutionizing scientific research, with innovative applications and wide use in astrophysics. The aim of this study was to developed an optimized version of an Artificial Neural Network…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-26 Miloš Kovačević , Graziano Chiaro , Sara Cutini , Gino Tosti

We present a new and efficient algorithm for finding point sources in the photon event data stream from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, FermiFAST. The key advantage of FermiFAST is that it constructs a catalogue of potential sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Asha Asvathaman , Conor Omand , Alistair Barton , Jeremy S. Heyl

Machine learning algorithms have been used to determine probabilistic classifications of unassociated sources. Often classification into two large classes, such as Galactic and extra-galactic, is considered. However, there are many more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Dmitry Malyshev , Aakash Bhat

We propose a novel statistical method to extend Fermi-LAT catalogues of high-latitude $\gamma$-ray sources below their nominal threshold. To do so, we rely on a recent determination of the differential source-count distribution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-16 Aurelio Amerio , Francesca Calore , Pasquale Dario Serpico , Bryan Zaldivar

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

Most existing star-galaxy classifiers use the reduced summary information from catalogs, requiring careful feature extraction and selection. The latest advances in machine learning that use deep convolutional neural networks allow a machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 Edward J. Kim , Robert J. Brunner

The Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalog (1FGL) provided spatial, spectral, and temporal properties for a large number of gamma-ray sources using a uniform analysis method. After correlating with the most-complete catalogs of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 LAT Collaboration

The second Fermi-LAT source catalog (2FGL) is the deepest all-sky survey available in the gamma-ray band. It contains 1873 sources, of which 576 remain unassociated. Machine-learning algorithms can be trained on the gamma-ray properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-29 M. Doert , M. Errando

In the fourth \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope source catalog (4FGL), 5064 $\gamma$-ray sources are reported, including 3207 active galactic nuclei (AGNs), 239 pulsars, 1336 unassociated sources, 92 sources with weak association with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-10 Kerui Zhu , Shi-Ju Kang , Yong-Gang Zheng

We have undertaken a dedicated program of automatic source classification in the WISE database merged with SuperCOSMOS scans, comprehensively identifying galaxies, quasars and stars on most of the unconfused sky. We use the Support Vector…

Searching for as yet undetected gamma-ray sources is a major target of the Fermi LAT Collaboration. We present an algorithm capable of identifying such type of sources by non-parametrically clustering the directions of arrival of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-30 Anna Montin , Alessandra R. Brazzale , Giovanna Menardi