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Extreme precision radial velocity (EPRV) surveys usually require extensive observational baselines to confirm planetary candidates, making them resource-intensive. Traditionally, periodograms are used to identify promising candidate signals…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Anoop Gavankar , Tanish Mittal , Joe Ninan , Shravan Hanasoge

Cataclysmic variables are among the photometrically most unstable stars in the zoo of stellar objects, exhibiting light variations on all time-scales between millennia and seconds. The literature is full of reports on variable phenomena…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-17 Albert Bruch

The rate of image acquisition in modern synoptic imaging surveys has already begun to outpace the feasibility of keeping astronomers in the real-time discovery and classification loop. Here we present the inner workings of a framework,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. S. Bloom , J. W. Richards , P. E. Nugent , R. M. Quimby , M. M. Kasliwal , D. L. Starr , D. Poznanski , E. O. Ofek , S. B. Cenko , N. R. Butler , S. R. Kulkarni , A. Gal-Yam , N. Law

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) of gamma ray observatory TAIGA detect the Extesnive Air Showers (EASs) originating from the cosmic or gamma rays interactions with the atmosphere. Thereby, telescopes obtain images of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-31 E. O. Gres , A. P. Kryukov , A. P. Demichev , J. J. Dubenskaya , S. P. Polyakov , A. A. Vlaskina , D. P. Zhurov

Upcoming synoptic surveys are set to generate an unprecedented amount of data. This requires an automatic framework that can quickly and efficiently provide classification labels for several new object classification challenges. Using data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Zafiirah Hosenie , Robert Lyon , Benjamin Stappers , Arrykrishna Mootoovaloo

We investigate whether a novel method of quantum machine learning (QML) can identify anomalous events in X-ray light curves as transient events and apply it to detect such events from the XMM-Newton 4XMM-DR14 catalog. The architecture we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Taiki Kawamuro , Shinya Yamada , Shigehiro Nagataki , Shunji Matsuura , Yusuke Sakai , Satoshi Yamada

Ground-based $\gamma$-ray observatories, such as the VERITAS array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, provide insight into very-high-energy (VHE, $\mathrm{E}>100\,\mathrm{GeV}$) astrophysical transient events. Examples include the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Konstantin Pfrang

The abundance of dark matter (DM) subhalos orbiting a host galaxy is a generic prediction of the cosmological framework, and is a promising way to constrain the nature of DM. In this paper, we investigate the use of machine learning-based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-02 Abdullah Bazarov , María Benito , Gert Hütsi , Rain Kipper , Joosep Pata , Sven Põder

The sensitivity of searches for astrophysical transients in data from the LIGO is generally limited by the presence of transient, non-Gaussian noise artifacts, which occur at a high-enough rate such that accidental coincidence across…

The unprecedented volume and rate of transient events that will be discovered by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) demands that the astronomical community update its followup paradigm. Alert-brokers -- automated software system to…

The observation of our home galaxy, the Milky Way (MW), is made difficult by our internal viewpoint. The Gaia survey that contains around 1.6 billion star distances is the new flagship of MW structure and can be combined with other…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-15 David Cornu

We report the discovery and characterization of a new cataclysmic variable (CV), 2CXO J050740.7-091337 (hereafter 2CXO J0507), identified using the X-ray main sequence through a cross-match between the Chandra Source Catalogue 2.1 and Gaia…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 Ilkham Galiullin , Vladislav Dodon , Antonio C. Rodriguez , Paula Szkody , Askar Sibgatullin

The Palomar Transient Factory proves to be a prolific source of Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables, selected by their distinctive photometric variability, and followed up spectroscopically. Here, we present six new candidate systems, together…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Bruce Margon , David Levitan , Thomas A. Prince , Gregg Hallinan , the PTF Collaboration

General Relativity predicts that binary systems of stars produce gravitational waves of significant intensity. Here we are particularly interested in the cataclysmic variable binaries (CVs). These systems emit low frequency gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. T. Meliani , J. C. N. de Araujo , O. D. Aguiar

Over six years of operation, the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS) has identified 1043 cataclysmic variable (CV) candidates --- the largest sample of CVs from a single survey to date. Here we provide spectroscopic identification of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 E. Breedt , B. T. Gaensicke , A. J. Drake , P. Rodriguez-Gil , S. G. Parsons , T. R. Marsh , P. Szkody , M. R. Schreiber , S. G. Djorgovski

In this study, the distances of stellar systems classified as cataclysmic variables in the literature were determined by using the distance compiled from Bailer-Jones et al. (2021). The spatial distributions of cataclysmic variables in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-14 R. Canbay

Time-domain astronomy is entering a new era as wide-field surveys with higher cadences allow for more discoveries than ever before. The field has seen an increased use of machine learning and deep learning for automated classification of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Umar. F. Burhanudin , Justyn. R. Maund

Context. Observations of cataclysmic variables in globular clusters appear to show a dearth of outbursts compared to those observed in the field. A number of explanations have been proposed, including low mass-transfer rates and/or moderate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Natalie Webb , Mathieu Servillat

The Tsinghua University--Ma Huateng Telescopes for Survey (TMTS) started to monitor the LAMOST plates in 2020, leading to the discovery of numerous short-period eclipsing binaries, peculiar pulsators, flare stars, and other variable…