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Modern astronomical surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), are capable of detecting thousands of transient events per year, necessitating the use of automated and scalable data analysis techniques. Recent advances in machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Betty X. Hu , Avi Loeb

We present RAPID (Real-time Automated Photometric IDentification), a novel time-series classification tool capable of automatically identifying transients from within a day of the initial alert, to the full lifetime of a light curve. Using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-08 Daniel Muthukrishna , Gautham Narayan , Kaisey S. Mandel , Rahul Biswas , Renée Hložek

The stellar evolution theory of massive stars remains uncalibrated with high-precision photometric observational data mainly due to a small number of luminous stars that are monitored from space. Automated all-sky surveys have revealed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Jaan Laur , Indrek Kolka , Tõnis Eenmäe , Taavi Tuvikene , Laurits Leedjärv

Kuiper belt objects smaller than a few kilometers are difficult to observe directly. They can be detected when they randomly occult a background star. Close to the ecliptic plane, each star is occulted once every tens of thousands of hours,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 Guy Nir , Eran O. Ofek , Barak Zackay

We present a methodology for automated real-time analysis of a radio image data stream with the goal to find transient sources. Contrary to previous works, the transients we are interested in occur on a time-scale where dispersion starts to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 David Ruhe , Mark Kuiack , Antonia Rowlinson , Ralph Wijers , Patrick Forré

We present a new pipeline developed to detect and characterize faint astronomical companions at small angular separation from the host star using sets of wide-field imaging observations not specifically designed for High Contrast Imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Giovanni M. Strampelli , Laurent Pueyo , Jonathan Aguilar , Antonio Aparicio , Gaspard Duchêne , Massimo Robberto

We present the results of a massive variability search based on a photometric survey of a six square degree region along the Galactic plane at ($l = 305^\circ$, $b = -0.8^\circ$) and ($l = 330^\circ$, $b = -2.5^\circ$). This survey was…

We have constructed a new, fast, robust and reliable pipeline to detect variable stars from the ROTSE-IIId archival data. Turkish share of ROTSE-III archive contains approximately one million objects from a large field of view (1.85\dgr)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 B. B. Güçsav , C. Yeşilyaprak , S. K. Yerli , N. Aksaker , Ü. Kızıloğlu , D. Çoker , E. Dikicioğlu , M. E. Aydın

We have searched for ultra-long (> 100 s) gamma-ray transients in the data from the anticoincidence shield (ACS) of the SPI gamma-ray spectrometer onboard the INTEGRAL orbital observatory and classified them by machine learning methods. We…

We introduce a pipeline that performs rapid image subtraction and source selection to detect transients, with a focus on identifying gravitational wave optical counterparts using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). In this work, we present the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-27 Shenming Fu , Thomas Matheson , Aaron Meisner , Yuanyuan Zhang , Sebastián Vicencio , Destry Saul

Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is an effective tool for detecting a moving target in spaceborne or airborne radar systems. Statistical-based STAP methods generally need sufficient statistically independent and identically distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-26 Ke Sun , Hao Zhang , Gang Li , Huadong Meng , Xiqin Wang

We report results from the preliminary trials of Colibri, a dedicated fast-photometry array for the detection of small Kuiper belt objects through serendipitous stellar occultations. Colibri's novel data processing pipeline analyzed 4000…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Emily Pass , Stanimir Metchev , Peter Brown , Steven Beauchemin

A Synchronous Photometry Data Extraction (SPDE) program, performing indiscriminate monitors of all stars appearing at the same field of view of astronomical image, is developed by integrating several Astropy affiliated packages to make full…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-14 Zhi-Bin Dai , Hao Zhou , Jin Cao

We developed a pulsar search pipeline based on PRESTO (PulsaR Exploration and Search Toolkit). This pipeline simply runs dedispersion, FFT (Fast Fourier Transformation), and acceleration search in process-level parallel to shorten the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Qiuyu Yu , Zhichen Pan , Lei Qian , Shen Wang , Youling Yue , Menglin Huang , Qiaoli Hao , Shanping You , Bo Peng , Yan Zhu , Lei Zhang , Zhijie Liu

Fast variability of optical objects is an interesting though poorly explored subject in modern astronomy. Real-time data processing and identification of transient celestial events in the images is very important for such study as it allows…

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

We present results from a radio survey for variable and transient sources on 15-min timescales, using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) pilot surveys. The pilot surveys consist of 505 h of observations conducted at around 1 GHz…

We derive analytic, closed form, numerically stable solutions for the total flux received from a spherical planet, moon or star during an occultation if the specific intensity map of the body is expressed as a sum of spherical harmonics.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Rodrigo Luger , Eric Agol , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , David P. Fleming , Jacob Lustig-Yaeger , Russell Deitrick

This paper presents SubPipe, an underwater dataset for SLAM, object detection, and image segmentation. SubPipe has been recorded using a \gls{LAUV}, operated by OceanScan MST, and carrying a sensor suite including two cameras, a side-scan…