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New time-domain surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will observe millions of transient alerts each night, making standard approaches of visually identifying new and interesting transients…

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We explore the use of Swin Transformer V2, a pre-trained vision Transformer, for photometric classification in a multi-survey setting by leveraging light curves from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact…

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is slated to observe nearly 20 billion galaxies during its decade-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time. The rich imaging data it collects will be an invaluable resource for probing galaxy evolution across…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Alexander T. Gagliano , Yunyi Shen , V. A. Villar

Astronomical time-series analysis faces a critical limitation: the scarcity of labeled observational data. We present a pre-training approach that leverages simulations, significantly reducing the need for labeled examples from real…

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Precise measurements from sensors are crucial, but data is usually collected from low-cost, low-tech systems, which are often inaccurate. Thus, they require further calibrations. To that end, we first identify three requirements for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Seokho Ahn , Hyungjin Kim , Sungbok Shin , Young-Duk Seo

Large-scale astronomical surveys have the potential to capture data on large numbers of strongly gravitationally lensed supernovae (LSNe). To facilitate timely analysis and spectroscopic follow-up before the supernova fades, an LSN needs to…

Transformer models have been developed in molecular science with excellent performance in applications including quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) and virtual screening (VS). Compared with other types of models, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Yi Yu , Karl Borjesson

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will discover tens of thousands of extragalactic transients each night. The high volume of alerts demands immediate classification of transient types in order to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-11 Marina Kisley , Yu-Jing Qin , Ann Zabludoff , Kobus Barnard , Chia-Lin Ko

In the last years, the need for automated real-time detection and classification of astronomical transients began to be more impelling. Better technologies involve a higher number of detected candidates and an automated classification will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-04 Gianmario Broccia

Accurate classification of celestial objects is essential for advancing our understanding of the universe. MargNet is a recently developed deep learning-based classifier applied to SDSS DR16 dataset to segregate stars, quasars, and compact…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-29 Srinadh Reddy Bhavanam , Sumohana S. Channappayya , P. K. Srijith , Shantanu Desai

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…

Thanks to the rapid proliferation of connected devices, sensor-generated time series constitute a large and growing portion of the world's data. Often, this data is collected from distributed, resource-constrained devices and centralized at…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Davis Blalock , Samuel Madden , John Guttag

Lens time delays are a powerful probe of cosmology, provided that the gravitational potential of the main deflector can be modeled with sufficient precision. Recent work has shown that this can be achieved by detailed modeling of the host…

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Multivariate time series anomaly detection is a crucial problem in many industrial and research applications. Timely detection of anomalies allows, for instance, to prevent defects in manufacturing processes and failures in cyberphysical…

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The new generation research experiments will introduce huge data surge to a continuously increasing data production by current experiments. This data surge necessitates efficient compression techniques. These compression techniques must…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Pierre Aubert , Thomas Vuillaume , Gilles Maurin , Jean Jacquemier , Giovanni Lamanna , Nahid Emad

Many science cases for wide-field time-domain surveys rely on accurate identification and characterization of the galaxies hosting transient and variable objects. In the era of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at the Vera C. Rubin…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-03 Charlotte Ward , Peter Melchior , Matt L. Sampson , Colin J. Burke , Jared Siegel , Benjamin Remy , Sufia Birmingham , Emily Ramey , Sjoert van Velzen

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 10-Year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is expected to produce a hundredfold increase in the number of transients we observe. However, there are insufficient spectroscopic resources to follow up on all…

Token compression is essential for reducing the computational and memory requirements of transformer models, enabling their deployment in resource-constrained environments. In this work, we propose an efficient and hardware-compatible token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Junzhu Mao , Yang Shen , Jinyang Guo , Yazhou Yao , Xiansheng Hua

The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will discover tens of thousands of astrophysical transients per night, far outpacing available spectroscopic follow-up capabilities. Carefully prioritising candidates for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Aidan Sedgewick , Christa Gall , Luca Izzo , Adriano Agnello , Charlotte R. Angus , Jens Hjorth , Arthur Kadela

The presence of smart objects is increasingly widespread and their ecosystem, also known as Internet of Things, is relevant in many different application scenarios. The huge amount of temporally annotated data produced by these smart…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Giacomo Chiarot , Claudio Silvestri