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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

To investigate the population of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies, we conduct a systematic search for active galactic nuclei (AGNs) using data from the first data release of the eROSITA All-Sky Survey (eRASS1). We crossmatch dwarf…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-30 John-Michael Eberhard , Amy E. Reines

Variability has proven to be a powerful tool to detect active galactic nuclei (AGN) in multi-epoch surveys. The new-generation facilities expected to become operational in the next few years will mark a new era in time-domain astronomy and…

We present a machine learning model to classify Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and galaxies (AGN-galaxy classifier) and a model to identify type 1 (optically unabsorbed) and type 2 (optically absorbed) AGN (type 1/2 classifier). We test…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Serena Falocco , Francisco J. Carrera , Josefin Larsson

In order to answer some of the major open questions in the fields of supermassive black hole (SMBH) and galaxy evolution, a complete census of SMBH growth, i.e., active galactic nuclei (AGN), is required. Thanks to deep all-sky surveys,…

As a major component of the LAMOST Galactic surveys, the LAMOST Spectroscopic Survey of the Galactic Anti-centre (LSS-GAC) aims to survey a significant volume of the Galactic thin/thick discs and halo for a contiguous sky area of over 3,400…

The past few decades have seen the burgeoning of wide field, high cadence surveys, the most formidable of which will be the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to be conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. So new is the field of…

This article belongs to the first series of XXL publications. It presents multifibre spectroscopic observations of three 0.55 sq.deg. fields in the XXL Survey, which were selected on the basis of their high density of X-ray-detected…

We present a neural network classification (NNC) method for photometric redshift estimation that produces well-calibrated redshift probability density functions (PDFs). The method discretizes the redshift space into ordered bins and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-08 Da-Chuan Tian , Zhong-Lue Wen , Jun-Qing Xia

We present a systematic search for broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST sample of 18 star-forming galaxies ($M_\star>10^{9.5}~M_{\odot}$) at redshifts $z=4.4-5.7$. Using JWST/NIRSpec IFU, we identify 7 AGN…

(abridged)Photometric redshifts for AGN (galaxies hosting an accreting supermassive black hole in their center) are notoriously challenging and currently better computed via SED fitting, assuming that deep photometry for many wavelengths is…

We apply clustering-based redshift inference to all extended sources from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometric catalogue, down to magnitude r = 22. We map the relationships between colours and redshift, without assumption of the…

The classification of the optical spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN) into different types is well founded on AGN physics, but it involves some degree of human oversight and cannot be reliably scaled to large data sets. Machine learning…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-04 T. Peruzzi , M. Pasquato , S. Ciroi , M. Berton , P. Marziani , E. Nardini

Forthcoming astronomical imaging surveys will use weak gravitational lensing shear as a primary probe to study dark energy, with accuracy requirements at the 0.1% level. We present an implementation of the Metadetection shear measurement…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-16 Erin S. Sheldon , Matthew R. Becker , Michael Jarvis , Robert Armstrong , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

We investigate a novel satellite avoidance strategy to mitigate the impact of large commercial satellite constellations in low-Earth orbit on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). We simulate the orbits of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Jinghan Alina Hu , Meredith L. Rawls , Peter Yoachim , Željko Ivezić

Galaxy clusters appear as extended sources in XMM-Newton images, but not all extended sources are clusters. So, their proper classification requires visual inspection with optical images, which is a slow process with biases that are almost…

Evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI) models for low-dose CT lung cancer screening is limited by heterogeneous datasets, annotation standards, and evaluation protocols, making performance difficult to compare and translate across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Fakrul Islam Tushar , Avivah Wang , Lavsen Dahal , Ehsan Samei , Michael R. Harowicz , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer , Kyle J. Lafata , Tina D. Tailor , Cynthia Rudin , Joseph Y. Lo

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at Vera C. Rubin Observatory is planned to begin in the Fall of 2025. The LSST survey cadence has been designed via a community-driven process regulated by the Survey Cadence Optimization Committee…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-08 Igor Andreoni , Raffaella Margutti , John Banovetz , Sarah Greenstreet , Claire-Alice Hebert , Tim Lister , Antonella Palmese , Silvia Piranomonte , S. J. Smartt , Graham P. Smith , Robert Stein , Tomas Ahumada , Shreya Anand , Katie Auchettl , Michele T. Bannister , Eric C. Bellm , Joshua S. Bloom , Bryce T. Bolin , Clecio R. Bom , Daniel Brethauer , Melissa J. Brucker , David A. H. Buckley , Poonam Chandra , Ryan Chornock , Eric Christensen , Jeff Cooke , Alessandra Corsi , Michael W. Coughlin , Bolivia Cuevas-Otahola , D'Ammando Filippo , Biwei Dai , S. Dhawan , Alexei V. Filippenko , Ryan J. Foley , Anna Franckowiak , Andreja Gomboc , Benjamin P. Gompertz , Leanne P. Guy , Nandini Hazra , Christopher Hernandez , Griffin Hosseinzadeh , Maryam Hussaini , Dina Ibrahimzade , Luca Izzo , R. Lynne Jones , Yijung Kang , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Matthew Knight , Keerthi Kunnumkai , Gavin P Lamb , Natalie LeBaron , Cassandra Lejoly , Andrew J. Levan , Sean MacBride , Franco Mallia , Alex I. Malz , Adam A. Miller , J. C. Mora , Gautham Narayan , Nayana A. J. , Matt Nicholl , Tiffany Nichols , S. R. Oates , Akshay Panayada , Fabio Ragosta , Tiago Ribeiro , Dan Ryczanowski , Nikhil Sarin , Megan E. Schwamb , Huei Sears , Darryl Z. Seligman , Ritwik Sharma , Manisha Shrestha , Simran , Michael C. Stroh , Giacomo Terreran , Aishwarya Linesh Thakur , Aum Trivedi , J. Anthony Tyson , Yousuke Utsumi , Aprajita Verma , V. Ashley Villar , Kathryn Volk , Meet J. Vyas , Amanda R. Wasserman , J. Craig Wheeler , Peter Yoachim , Angela Zegarelli , Federica Bianco

The upcoming photometric surveys, such as the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will monitor unprecedented number of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in a decade long campaign. Motivated by the science goals of LSST,…