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With large numbers of transients discovered by current and future imaging surveys, machine learning is increasingly applied to light curve and host galaxy properties to select events for follow-up. However, finding rare types of transients…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Xinyue Sheng , Tuan Dung Pham , Zichi Zhang , Matt Nicholl , Thai Son Mai

The ongoing optical time-domain astronomy surveys are routinely reporting fifty transient candidates per night. Here, I investigate the demographics of astronomical transients and supernova classifications reported to the Transient Name…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-14 S. R. Kulkarni

We develop a hybrid framework to identify kilonovae (KNe), using single-epoch, medium-band spectral energy distributions from the 7-Dimensional Telescope (7DT). The framework integrates an unsupervised anomaly classifier (\texttt{Isolation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Gregory S. H. Paek , Myungshin Im , Seo-Won Chang , Hyeonho Choi , Ji Hoon Kim

The upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is expected to detect a few million transients per night, which will generate a live alert stream during the entire ten years of the survey. This stream will be distributed via community…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 B. M. O. Fraga , C. R. Bom , A. Santos , E. Russeil , M. Leoni , J. Peloton , E. E. O. Ishida , A. Möller , S. Blondin

We present the TRansient Image Processing Pipeline (TRIPP), a transient and variable source detection pipeline that employs both difference imaging and light curve analysis techniques for astronomical data. Additionally, we demonstrate…

A Multi-Phase Transport (AMPT) model is used to study the elliptic flow fluctuations of identified particles using participant and spectator event planes. The elliptic flow measured using the first order spectator event plane is expected to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-09-08 Niseem Magdy , Xu Sun , Zhenyu Ye , Olga Evdokimov , Roy A. Lacey

The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will enable astronomers to discover rare and distant astrophysical transients. Host-galaxy association is crucial for selecting the most scientifically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Josh G. Weston , David R. Young , Stephen J. Smartt , Matt Nicholl , Matt J. Jarvis , I. H. Whittam

Both multi-messenger astronomy and new high-throughput wide-field surveys require flexible tools for the selection and analysis of astrophysical transients. We here introduce the Alert Management, Photometry and Evaluation of Lightcurves…

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

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-m aperture, zenith-pointing telescope with a field-of-view of 22', situated in the foothills of the Himalayas. The telescope operates in continuous survey mode, making it a useful…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Kumar Pranshu , Kuntal Misra , Bhavya Ailawadhi , Monalisa Dubey , Naveen Dukiya , Sara Filali , Paul Hickson , Brajesh Kumar , Vibhore Negi , Jean Surdej

Astrophysical transients with rapid development on sub-hour timescales are intrinsically rare. Due to their short durations, events like stellar superflares, optical flashes from gamma-ray bursts, and shock breakouts from young supernovae…

Microlensing is a powerful technique to study the Galactic population of "dark" objects such as exoplanets both bound and unbound, brown dwarfs, low-luminosity stars, old white dwarfs, neutron stars, and almost the only way to study…

Exploration of time domain is now a vibrant area of research in astronomy, driven by the advent of digital synoptic sky surveys. While panoramic surveys can detect variable or transient events, typically some follow-up observations are…

We introduce a new model for conditional and continuous data morphing called TRansport Adversarial Network for Smooth InTerpolation (TRANSIT). We apply it to create a background data template for weakly-supervised searches at the LHC. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-27 Ivan Oleksiyuk , Svyatoslav Voloshynovskiy , Tobias Golling

The Bright Transient Survey (BTS) aims to obtain a classification spectrum for all bright ($m_\mathrm{peak}\,\leq\,18.5\,$mag) extragalactic transients found in the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) public survey. BTS critically relies on…

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has discovered five new events belonging to an emerging class of AGN undergoing smooth flares with large amplitudes and rapid rise times. This sample consists of several transients that were initially…

Microlensing has a unique advantage for detecting dark objects in the Milky Way, such as free-floating planets, neutron stars, and stellar-mass black holes. Most microlensing surveys focus on the Galactic bulge, where higher stellar density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-11 Ruocheng Zhai , Antonio C. Rodriguez , Shude Mao , Casey Y. Lam , Eric C. Bellm , Josiah Purdum , Frank J. Masci , Avery Wold

We present DELIGHT, or Deep Learning Identification of Galaxy Hosts of Transients, a new algorithm designed to automatically and in real-time identify the host galaxies of extragalactic transients. The proposed algorithm receives as input…

With a rapidly rising number of transients detected in astronomy, classification methods based on machine learning are increasingly being employed. Their goals are typically to obtain a definitive classification of transients, and for good…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 N. Miranda , J. C. Freytag , J. Nordin , R. Biswas , V. Brinnel , C. Fremling , M. Kowalski , A. Mahabal , S. Reusch , J. van Santen