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We introduce a novel approach to detecting microlensing events and other transients in light curves, utilising the isolation forest (iForest) algorithm for anomaly detection. Focusing on the Legacy Survey of Space and Time by the Vera C.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Miguel Crispim Romao , Djuna Croon , Daniel Godines

Time-domain surveys such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) have opened a new frontier in the discovery and characterization of transients. While photometric light curves provide broad temporal coverage, spectroscopic observations…

Modern time-domain surveys produce alert streams at a scale that makes exhaustive manual inspection infeasible, requiring automated methods to identify unusual transients for follow-up. In this work, we present an unsupervised anomaly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Leyla Iskandarli , Chris J. Lintott , Steve Croft , Heloise Stevance , Joshua Weston

Reliable and interpretable traffic crash modeling is essential for understanding causality and improving road safety. This study introduces a novel approach to predicting collision types by utilizing a comprehensive dataset fused from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Oscar Lares , Hao Zhen , Jidong J. Yang

The timing analysis of transient events allows for investigating numerous still open areas of modern astrophysics. The article explores all the mathematical and physical tools required to estimate delays and associated errors between two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 W. Leone , L. Burderi , T. di Salvo , A. Anitra , A. Sanna , A. Riggio , R. Iaria , F. Fiore , F. Longo , M. Ďurišková , A. Tsvetkova , C. Maraventano , C. Miceli

When a gravitational wave encounters a massive object along the line of sight, repeated copies of the original signal may be produced due to gravitational lensing. In this paper, we develop a series of new machine-learning based statistical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Giulia Campailla , Marco Raveri , Wayne Hu , Jose María Ezquiaga

As we observe a rapidly growing number of astrophysical transients, we learn more about the diverse host galaxy environments in which they occur. Host galaxy information can be used to purify samples of cosmological Type Ia supernovae,…

Transient detection and flux measurement via image subtraction stand at the base of time domain astronomy. Due to the varying seeing conditions, the image subtraction process is non-trivial, and existing solutions suffer from a variety of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Barak Zackay , Eran O. Ofek , Avishay Gal-Yam

We present a variability, color and morphology based classifier, designed to identify transients, persistently variable, and non-variable sources, from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) Data Release 11 (DR11) light curves of extended and…

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

We present the Deep-learning Transient Astronomical Object (Deep-TAO), a dataset of 1,249,079 annotated images from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey, including 3,807 transient and 12,500 non-transient sequences. Deep-TAO has been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 John F. Suárez-Pérez , Catalina Gómez , Mauricio Neira , Marcela Hernández Hoyos , Pablo Arbeláez , Jaime E. Forero-Romero

We propose a method to organize experimental data from particle collision experiments in a general format which can enable a simple visualisation and effective classification of collision data using machine learning techniques. The method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-15 S. V. Chekanov

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

Modern-day time-domain photometric surveys collect a lot of observations of various astronomical objects and the coming era of large-scale surveys will provide even more information on their properties. Spectroscopic follow-ups are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Mariia Demianenko , Konstantin Malanchev , Ekaterina Samorodova , Mikhail Sysak , Aleksandr Shiriaev , Denis Derkach , Mikhail Hushchyn

A large-scale deployment of phasor measurement units (PMUs) that reveal the inherent physical laws of power systems from a data perspective enables an enhanced awareness of power system operation. However, the high-granularity and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Yuxuan Yuan , Yifei Guo , Kaveh Dehghanpour , Zhaoyu Wang , Yanchao Wang

The Vera C. Rubin observatory is expected to produce 10 million transient alerts per night in ugrizy filters, whilst Euclid is a visible to near-infrared space telescope engaged in a wide field survey. We present a prototype system to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-23 C. Duffy , I. M. Hook , C. M. Gutierrez , K. Paterson , V. Petrecca , T. J. Moriya , F. Poidevin , R. Kotak , B. Altieri , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , P. Battaglia , A. Biviano , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , S. Camera , G. Cañas-Herrera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , K. C. Chambers , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , J. -C. Cuillandre , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , H. Dole , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , S. Escoffier , M. Farina , R. Farinelli , S. Ferriol , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , K. George , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , J. Gracia-Carpio , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , M. S. Holliman , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , R. Kohley , B. Kubik , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , A. M. C. Le Brun , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. J. Massey , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , A. Mora , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , C. Rosset , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , M. Schirmer , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , E. Sihvola , P. Simon , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , J. Skottfelt , L. Stanco , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , N. Tessore , S. Toft , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , E. Zucca , J. García-Bellido , E. Jullo , J. Martín-Fleitas , A. A. Nucita , V. Scottez

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 problem will grow by orders of magnitude with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ashish A. Mahabal , C. Donalek , S. G. Djorgovski , A. J. Drake , M. J. Graham , R. Williams , Y. Chen , B. Moghaddam , M. Turmon

Low surface brightness substructures around galaxies, known as tidal features, are a valuable tool in the detection of past or ongoing galaxy mergers, and their properties can answer questions about the progenitor galaxies involved in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-06 Alice Desmons , Sarah Brough , Francois Lanusse

Here we present a catalog of 12,993 photometrically-classified supernova-like light curves from the Zwicky Transient Facility, along with candidate host galaxy associations. By training a random forest classifier on spectroscopically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-21 Braden Garretson , Dan Milisavljevic , Jack Reynolds , Kathryn E. Weil , Bhagya Subrayan , John Banovetz , Rachel Lee

The VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey and its extension, have been monitoring about 560 square degrees of sky centred on the Galactic bulge and inner disc for nearly a decade. The photometric catalogue contains of order 10$^9$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 Andrea Husseiniova , Peter McGill , Leigh C. Smith , N. Wyn Evans