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This study presents a background estimation for the Cubesats Applied for MEasuring and LOcalising Transients (CAMELOT), which is a proposed fleet of nanosatellites for the all-sky monitoring and timing based localization of gamma-ray…

Automating real-time anomaly detection is essential for identifying rare transients, with modern survey telescopes generating tens of thousands of alerts per night, and future telescopes, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, projected to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 Rithwik Gupta , Daniel Muthukrishna , Michelle Lochner

Kilonovae, the ultraviolet/optical/infrared counterparts to binary neutron star mergers, are an exceptionally rare class of transients. Optical follow-up campaigns are plagued by contaminating transients, which may mimic kilonovae, but do…

We have entered the era of explosive transient astronomy, in which upcoming real-time surveys like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) and Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Lucille H. Frey , Wesley Even , Daniel J. Whalen , Chris L. Fryer , Aimee L. Hungerford , Christopher J. Fontes , James Colgan

Compact binary mergers detectable in gravitational waves can be accompanied by a kilonova, an electromagnetic transient powered by radioactive decay of newly synthesised r-process elements. A few kilonova candidates have been observed…

A fast-turnaround pipeline for realtime data reduction plays an essential role in discovering and permitting follow-up observations to young supernovae and fast-evolving transients in modern time-domain surveys. In this paper, we present…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Yi Cao , Peter E Nugent , Mansi M Kasliwal

Fast Blue Optical Transients (FBOTs) are luminous transients with fast evolving (typically $t_{\rm rise}<12\ \rm days$) light curve and blue color (usually $\rm {-0.2\ >\ g-r\ >\ -0.3}$) that cannot be explained by a supernova-like…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-08 Chun Chen , Rong-Feng Shen

The study of astronomical transients at high energies provides insights into some of the most extreme physical events in the universe; however, carrying out their detection and fast follow-up studies are limited by instrumental constraints.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-28 Robbie Webbe , E. Quintin , N. A. Webb , Gabriele Ponti , Tong Bao , Chandreyee Maitra , Shifra Mandel , Samaresh Mondal

Significant progress has been made for estimating optical flow using deep neural networks. Advanced deep models achieve accurate flow estimation often with a considerable computation complexity and time-consuming training processes. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Lingtong Kong , Jie Yang

We discuss how we can detect and identify counterparts of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in future optical follow up observations of FRBs if real-time alert of FRBs becomes available. We consider kilonovae as candidates of FRB optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Yuu Niino , Tomonori Totani , Jun E. Okumura

Short-duration Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) (\leq 2{\rm s}) have remained a mystery due to the lack of afterglow detection until recently. The models to interpret short GRBs invoke distinct progenitor scenarios. Here we present a generic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Z. Fan , Bing Zhang , Shiho Kobayashi , Peter Meszaros

We present an overview of the SkyMapper optical follow-up program for gravitational-wave event triggers from the LIGO/Virgo observatories, which aims at identifying early GW170817-like kilonovae out to $\sim 200$ Mpc distance. We describe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Seo-Won Chang , Christopher A. Onken , Christian Wolf , Lance Luvaul , Anais Möller , Richard Scalzo , Brian P. Schmidt , Susan M. Scott , Nikunj Sura , Fang Yuan

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with short durations and extremely high brightness temperatures, and their physical origins are still unknown. Recently, a repeating source, FRB 20200120E, was found in a globular cluster…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Yuan-Pei Yang

Since the launch of the highly successful and ongoing Swift mission, the field of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has undergone a revolution. The arcsecond GRB localizations available within just a few minutes of the GRB alert has signified the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-26 Patricia Schady

We introduce a method for detecting astrophysical transients evolving on timescales of milliseconds to minutes using cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey telescopes. While previous transient searches in CMB data operate in map space,…

Neutrino observations are crucial for multi-messenger astronomy, but currently limited by effective area and atmospheric background. However, while other telescopes must point their limited field of view, IceCube can perform full-sky…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Christoph Raab , Sam Hori , Steve Sclafani , Jessie Thwaites

The discovery of X-ray, optical and radio afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and the measurements of the distances to some of them have established that these events come from Gpc distances and are the most powerful photon emitters known…

Supernovae (SNe), kilonovae (KNe), tidal disruption events (TDEs), optical afterglows of gamma ray bursts (GRBs), and many other optical transients are important phenomena in time-domain astronomy. Fitting the multi-band light curves (LCs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-11 Tao Wang , Shan-Qin Wang , Wen-Pei Gan

It has been previously demonstrated [Panov et al. Physics of Atomic Nuclei 84(2021)1037] that the TAIGA-HiSCORE Cherenkov array, originally built for cosmic ray physics and ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray astronomy studies using the extensive…