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The exponential growth of astronomical data from large-scale surveys has created both opportunities and challenges for the astrophysics community. This paper explores the possibilities offered by transfer learning techniques in addressing…

We perform a detailed analysis and simulations on the transient detection capability in the near-ultraviolet (NUV) band by focusing on some major local transient events. These events include the tidal disruption event due to a supermassive…

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The next generation of observatories will facilitate the discovery of new types of astrophysical transients. The detection of such phenomena, whose characteristics are presently poorly constrained, will hinge on the ability to perform blind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-06 Iftach Sadeh

Deep-learning-based methods have been favored in astrophysics owing to their adaptability and remarkable performance and have been applied to the task of the classification of real and bogus transients. Different from most existing…

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is the next generation of observatories employing the imaging air Cherenkov technique for the study of very high energy gamma rays. The deployment of deep learning methods for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-21 Michael Dellaiera , Cyann Plard , Thomas Vuillaume , Alexandre Benoit , Sami Caroff

We present ORACLE, the first hierarchical deep-learning model for real-time, context-aware classification of transient and variable astrophysical phenomena. ORACLE is a recurrent neural network with Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs), and has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-04 Ved G. Shah , Alex Gagliano , Konstantin Malanchev , Gautham Narayan , Alex I. Malz , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Deep learning techniques have been well explored in the transiting exoplanet field; however, previous work mainly focuses on classification and inspection. In this work, we develop a novel detection algorithm based on a well proven object…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Kaiming Cui , Junjie Liu , Fabo Feng , Jifeng Liu

For nearly a decade, the COCO dataset has been the central test bed of research in object detection. According to the recent benchmarks, however, it seems that performance on this dataset has started to saturate. One possible reason can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Ali Borji

Transfer learning with pre-training on large-scale datasets has played an increasingly significant role in computer vision and natural language processing recently. However, as there exist numerous application scenarios that have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Xingyuan Bu , Junran Peng , Junjie Yan , Tieniu Tan , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Wide-field and high-cadence sky surveys are the first step in the chain of discovery and characterisation of astrophysical transients such as supernovae, kilonovae, and tidal disruption events, each linked to the varied demise of stellar…

In the preparation for ESA's Euclid mission and the large amount of data it will produce, we train deep convolutional neural networks on Euclid simulations classify solar system objects from other astronomical sources. Using transfer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-15 Maggie Lieu , Luca Conversi , Bruno Altieri , Benoît Carry

Current archives of the LAMOST telescope contain millions of pipeline-processed spectra that have probably never been seen by human eyes. Most of the rare objects with interesting physical properties, however, can only be identified by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Petr Škoda , Ondřej Podsztavek , Pavel Tvrdík

Neural decoding is an important method in cognitive neuroscience that aims to decode brain representations from recorded neural activity using a multivariate machine learning model. The THINGS initiative provides a large EEG dataset of 46…

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We report on the serendipitous observations of Solar System objects imaged during the High cadence Transient Survey (HiTS) 2014 observation campaign. Data from this high cadence, wide field survey was originally analyzed for finding…

This study investigate the effectiveness of using Deep Learning (DL) for the classification of planetary nebulae (PNe). It focusses on distinguishing PNe from other types of objects, as well as their morphological classification. We adopted…

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Ongoing or upcoming surveys such as Gaia, ZTF, or LSST will observe light-curves of billons or more astronomical sources. This presents new challenges for identifying interesting and important types of variability. Collecting a sufficient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Dae-Won Kim , Doyeob Yeo , Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones , Giyoung Lee

This research addresses the growing challenge of artificial satellite trail interference in ground-based astronomical observations by developing an efficient deep learning identification method. With the proliferation of satellite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Hua-Jian Yu , Jia-Lei Zheng , Yuan Fang

The Asteroid Terrestrial impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) system consists of two 0.5m Schmidt telescopes with cameras covering 29 square degrees at plate scale of 1.86 arcsec per pixel. Working in tandem, the telescopes routinely survey the…

We report on the methodology and first results from the Deep Lens Survey transient search. We utilize image subtraction on survey data to yield all sources of optical variability down to 24th magnitude. Images are analyzed immediately after…