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The SiTian project, with its vast field of view, will become an ideal platform for asteroid scientific research. In this study, we develop a pipeline to analyze the photometry of asteroids and derive their periods from the data collected by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Zhaoxing Liu , Jian Gao , Hongrui Gu , Yang Huang , Shaoming Hu , Hu Zou , Keyu Xing , Hao Huang , Zehao Zhang

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…

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,…

The Mini-SiTian Array serves as a pathfinder for the SiTian project, which aims to survey the entire sky in $gri$ bands every 30 minutes, reaching a limiting magnitude of 21. This special issue features 11 papers covering the design,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Yang Huang , Jifeng Liu , Hong Wu , Zhaohui Shang , Ali Luo , Shaoming Hu , Wenyuan Cui , Yongna Mao

The recent serendipitous discovery of a new population of short duration X-ray transients, thought to be associated with collisions of compact objects or stellar explosions in distant galaxies, has motivated efforts to build up statistical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-01 A. Ruiz , A. Georgakakis , I. Georgantopoulos , A. Akylas , M. Pierre , J. L. Starck

We present a novel pipeline that uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) to improve the detection capability of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) in the context of planetary defense. Our work aims to minimize the dependency on human…

In this paper, we overview, evaluate, and demonstrate the sparse processing particle image velocimetry (SPPIV) as a real-time flow field estimation method using the particle image velocimetry (PIV), whereas SPPIV was previously proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Naoki Kanda , Chihaya Abe , Shintaro Goto , Keigo Yamada , Kumi Nakai , Yuji Saito , Keisuke Asai , Taku Nonomura

Transit Timing Variation (TTV) of hot Jupiters provides direct observational evidence of planet tidal dissipation. Detecting tidal dissipation through TTV needs high precision transit timings and long timing baselines. In this work, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Fan Yang , Wei Wang , Xing Wei , Hui Zhang , Ji-Lin Zhou , Su-Su Shan , Jie Zheng , Wei-Kai Zong , Ming Yang , Yu Bai , Song Wang , Jia-Chen Zheng , Yu-Ru Xu , Yu-Feng Li , You-Jun Lu , Ji-Feng Liu

The DEEP-South photometric census of small Solar System bodies produces massive time-series data of variable, transient or moving objects as a by-product. To fully investigate unexplored variable phenomena, we present an application of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-09 Seo-Won Chang , Yong-Ik Byun , Min-Su Shin , Hahn Yi , Myung-Jin Kim , Hong-Kyu Moon , Young-Jun Choi , Sang-Mok Cha , Yongseok Lee

We describe ZStreak, a semi-real-time pipeline specialized in detecting small, fast-moving near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) that is currently operating on the data from the newly-commissioned Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey. Based on a…

An automated, rapid classification of transient events detected in the modern synoptic sky surveys is essential for their scientific utility and effective follow-up using scarce resources. This presents some unusual challenges: the data are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 S. G. Djorgovski , A. A. Mahabal , C. Donalek , M. J. Graham , A. J. Drake , B. Moghaddam , M. Turmon

We describe the construction of a highly reliable sample of approximately 7,000 optically faint periodic variable stars with light curves obtained by the asteroid survey LINEAR across 10,000 sq.deg of northern sky. Majority of these…

The Mini-SiTian (MST) project is a pathfinder for China's next-generation large-scale time-domain survey, SiTian, aimed at discovering variable stars, transients, and explosive events. MST generates hundreds of thousands of transient alerts…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Jing-Hang Shi , Hong-Rui Gu , Yang Huang , Yan-Xia Zhang , Peng-Liang Du

To exhume the buried signatures of free-floating planets (FFPs) with small angular Einstein radius $\theta_{\rm E}$, we build a new full-frame difference image pipeline for the Korean Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) survey based on…

With the arrival of a number of wide-field snapshot image-plane radio transient surveys, there will be a huge influx of images in the coming years making it impossible to manually analyse the datasets. Automated pipelines to process the…

This paper presents the SPIIR pipeline used for public alerts during the third advanced LIGO and Virgo observation run (O3 run). The SPIIR pipeline uses infinite impulse response (IIR) filters to perform extremely low-latency matched…

Detection and tracking of dynamic objects is a key feature for autonomous behavior in a continuously changing environment. With the increasing popularity and capability of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) efficient algorithms have to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Jan Razlaw , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

Despite the prevalence of transient-searching facilities operating across most wavelengths, the ultraviolet (UV) transient sky remains to be systematically studied. We have recently initiated the Transient Ultraviolet Objects (TUVO)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 David Modiano , Rudy Wijnands , Aastha Parikh , Jari van Opijnen , Sill Verberne , Marieke van Etten

In recent years, automatic classifiers of image cutouts (also called "stamps") have shown to be key for fast supernova discovery. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will distribute about ten million alerts with their respective stamps each…

Rapid localisation of celestial transients like pulsars requires efficient short-timescale imaging. In radio astronomy, Fast Imaging Pipeline (FIP) addresses this need by reconstructing radio astronomical images and identifying candidates…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 X. Li , K. Adamek , M. Giles , W. Armour
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