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Large modern surveys require efficient review of data in order to find transient sources such as supernovae, and to distinguish such sources from artefacts and noise. Much effort has been put into the development of automatic algorithms,…

The primary challenge in the study of explosive astrophysical transients is their detection and characterisation using multiple messengers. For this purpose, we have developed a new data-driven discovery framework, based on deep learning.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-14 Iftach Sadeh

The ability to discover new transients via image differencing without direct human intervention is an important task in observational astronomy. For these kind of image classification problems, machine Learning techniques such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-09 Venkitesh Ayyar , Robert Knop , Autumn Awbrey , Alexis Andersen , Peter Nugent

With the low Earth orbit environment becoming increasingly populated with artificial satellites, rockets, and debris, it is important to understand the effects they have on radio astronomy. In this work, we undertake a multi-frequency,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Dylan Grigg , Steven Tingay , Steve Prabu , Marcin Sokolowski , Balthasar Indermuehle

To search for optical counterparts to gravitational waves, it is crucial to develop an efficient follow-up method that allows for both a quick telescopic scan of the event localization region and search through the resulting image data for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Katarzyna Wardęga , Adam Zadrożny , Martin Beroiz , Richard Camuccio , Mario C. Díaz

Transient surveys are a vital tool in exploring the dynamic universe, with radio transients acting as beacons for explosive and highly energetic astrophysical phenomena. However, performing commensal transient surveys using radio imaging…

The impending era of wide-field radio surveys has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of astrophysical transients. Here we evaluate the prospects of a wide range of planned and hypothetical radio surveys using the properties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-06 Brian D. Metzger , Peter K. G. Williams , Edo Berger

Identification of anomalous light curves within time-domain surveys is often challenging. In addition, with the growing number of wide-field surveys and the volume of data produced exceeding astronomers ability for manual evaluation,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Sara Webb , Michelle Lochner , Daniel Muthukrishna , Jeff Cooke , Chris Flynn , Ashish Mahabal , Simon Goode , Igor Andreoni , Tyler Pritchard , Timothy M. C. Abbott

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) will give us an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the transient sky at radio wavelengths. In this paper we present VAST, an ASKAP survey for Variables and Slow Transients. VAST…

Key Performance Indicators (KPI), which are essentially time series data, have been widely used to indicate the performance of telecom networks. Based on the given KPIs, a large set of anomaly detection algorithms have been deployed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Hamza Bodor , Thai V. Hoang , Zonghua Zhang

New advancements in radio data post-processing are underway within the SKA precursor community, aiming to facilitate the extraction of scientific results from survey images through a semi-automated approach. Several of these developments…

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 recent advances in Gravitational-wave astronomy have greatly accelerated the study of Multimessenger astrophysics. There is a need for the development of fast and efficient algorithms to detect non-astrophysical transients and noises…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-28 Rahul Nigam , Amit Mishra , Pranath Reddy

We demonstrate a new technique for detecting radio transients based on interferometric closure quantities. The technique uses the bispectrum, the product of visibilities around a closed-loop of baselines of an interferometer. The bispectrum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Casey J. Law , Geoffrey C. Bower

We report on a re-analysis of archival data from the Very Large Array for a sample of ten long duration radio transients reported by Bower and others. These transients have an implied all-sky rate that would make them the most common radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 D. A. Frail , S. R. Kulkarni , E. O. Ofek , G. C. Bower , E. Nakar

Searches for slow radio transients and variables have generally focused on extragalactic populations, and the basic parameters of Galactic populations remain poorly characterized. We present a large 3 GHz survey performed with the Allen…

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

Many astronomical sources produce transient phenomena at radio frequencies, but the transient sky at low frequencies (<300 MHz) remains relatively unexplored. Blind surveys with new widefield radio instruments are setting increasingly…

Radio emitter recognition in dense multi-user environments is an important tool for optimizing spectrum utilization, identifying and minimizing interference, and enforcing spectrum policy. Radio data is readily available and easy to obtain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Timothy J. O'Shea , Nathan West , Matthew Vondal , T. Charles Clancy