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Robotic wide-field time-domain surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility and the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, capture dozens of transients each night. The workflows for discovering and classifying transients in survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Nabeel Rehemtulla , Michael W. Coughlin , Adam A. Miller , Theophile Jegou du Laz

Space-based time-domain telescopes such as CoRoT, Kepler/K2 and TESS have profoundly impacted astrophysics over the past two decades. Continuous light curves with high cadence and high photometric precision are now available for millions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 Daniel Huber

Astronomy has been at the forefront of the development of the techniques and methodologies of data intensive science for over a decade with large sky surveys and distributed efforts such as the Virtual Observatory. However, it faces a new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-14 Matthew J. Graham , S. G. Djorgovski , Ashish Mahabal , Ciro Donalek , Andrew Drake , Giuseppe Longo

Nowadays many telescopes around the world are automated and some networks of robotic telescopes are active or planned as shown by the lists we draw up. Such equipment could be used for the training of students and for science in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. R. Querci , M. Querci

Exploration of the time domain - variable and transient objects and phenomena - is rapidly becoming a vibrant research frontier, touching on essentially every field of astronomy and astrophysics, from the Solar system to cosmology. Time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-03 A. A. Mahabal , S. G. Djorgovski , A. J. Drake , C. Donalek , M. J. Graham , R. D. Williams , Y. Chen , B. Moghaddam , M. Turmon , E. Beshore , S. Larson

The changing heavens have played a central role in the scientific effort of astronomers for centuries. Galileo's synoptic observations of the moons of Jupiter and the phases of Venus starting in 1610, provided strong refutation of Ptolemaic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Joshua S. Bloom , Joseph W. Richards

The time domain has been identified as one of the most important areas of astronomical research for the next decade. The Virtual Observatory is in the vanguard with dedicated tools and services that enable and facilitate the discovery,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Matthew J. Graham , S. G. Djorgovski , Ciro Donalek , Andrew J. Drake , Ashish A. Mahabal , Raymond L. Plante , Jeffrey Kantor , John C. Good

Observatories are complex scientific and technical institutions serving diverse users and purposes. Their telescopes, instruments, software, and human resources engage in interwoven workflows over a broad range of timescales. These…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Robert L. Seaman , W. Thomas Vestrand , Frederic V. Hessman

In recent decades, astronomy and astrophysics have experienced several fundamental changes. On one hand, there has been a significant increase in the observation of transient phenomena, which are short-lived events such as supernova…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Fabian Schüssler , M. de Bony de Lavergne , A. Kaan Alkan , J. Mourier

Large area surveys will dominate the next decade of astronomy, and the main limitation to science will be the thorough followup and characterization of their extremely numerous discoveries. The deployment of robotic laser adaptive optics on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Christoph Baranec

Progress in astronomy comes from interpreting the signals encoded in the light received from distant objects: the distribution of light over the sky (images), over photon wavelength (spectrum), over polarization angle, and over time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-26 Simon Vaughan

Data challenges are emerging as powerful tools with which to answer fundamental astronomical questions. Time-domain astronomy lends itself to data challenges, particularly in the era of classification and anomaly detection. With improved…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Renée Hložek

At present time Robotic observatory making is of current importance. Having a large field of view and being able to point at anywhere, Robotic astronomical systems are indispensable when they looking for transients like grb, supernovae…

Time-domain astronomy is entering an era of unprecedented discovery driven by wide-field, high-cadence surveys such as LSST, Roman, Euclid, SKA, and PLATO. While some of these facilities will generate enormous photometric alert streams, the…

Astronomy has entered the multi-messenger data era and Machine Learning has found widespread use in a large variety of applications. The exploitation of synoptic (multi-band and multi-epoch) surveys, like LSST (Legacy Survey of Space and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 M. Vicedomini , M. Brescia , S. Cavuoti , G. Longo , G. Riccio

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public-private enterprise, is a new time domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope with a 47 deg$^2$ field of view and 8 second readout time. It is well…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Matthew J. Graham , S. R. Kulkarni , Eric C. Bellm , Scott M. Adams , Cristina Barbarino , Nadejda Blagorodnova , Dennis Bodewits , Bryce Bolin , Patrick R. Brady , S. Bradley Cenko , Chan-Kao Chang , Michael W. Coughlin , Kishalay De , Gwendolyn Eadie , Tony L. Farnham , Ulrich Feindt , Anna Franckowiak , Christoffer Fremling , Avishay Gal-yam , Suvi Gezari , Shaon Ghosh , Daniel A. Goldstein , V. Zach Golkhou , Ariel Goobar , Anna Y. Q. Ho , Daniela Huppenkothen , Zeljko Ivezic , R. Lynne Jones , Mario Juric , David L. Kaplan , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Michael S. P. Kelley , Thomas Kupfer , Chien-De Lee , Hsing Wen Lin , Ragnhild Lunnan , Ashish A. Mahabal , Adam A. Miller , Chow-Choong Ngeow , Peter Nugent , Eran O. Ofek , Thomas A. Prince , Ludwig Rauch , Jan van Roestel , Steve Schulze , Leo P. Singer , Jesper Sollerman , Francesco Taddia , Lin Yan , Quan-Zhi Ye , Po-Chieh Yu , Igor Andreoni , Tom Barlow , James Bauer , Ron Beck , Justin Belicki , Rahul Biswas , Valery Brinnel , Tim Brooke , Brian Bue , Mattia Bulla , Kevin Burdge , Rick Burruss , Andrew Connolly , John Cromer , Virginia Cunningham , Richard Dekany , Alex Delacroix , Vandana Desai , Dmitry A. Duev , Eugean Hacopians , David Hale , George Helou , John Henning , David Hover , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Justin Howell , Tiara Hung , David Imel , Wing-Huen Ip , Edward Jackson , Shai Kaspi , Stephen Kaye , Marek Kowalski , Emily Kramer , Michael Kuhn , Walter Landry , Russ R. Laher , Peter Mao , Frank J. Masci , Serge Monkewitz , Patrick Murphy , Jakob Nordin , Maria T. Patterson , Bryan Penprase , Michael Porter , Umaa Rebbapragada , Dan Reiley , Reed Riddle , Mickael Rigault , Hector Rodriguez , Ben Rusholme , Jakob van Santen , David L. Shupe , Roger M. Smith , Maayane T. Soumagnac , Robert Stein , Jason Surace , Paula Szkody , Scott Terek , Angela van Sistine , Sjoert van Velzen , W. Thomas Vestrand , Richard Walters , Charlotte Ward , Chaoran Zhang , Jeffry Zolkower

In recent years the possibility of measuring the temporal change of radial and transverse position of sources in the sky in real time have become conceivable thanks to the thoroughly improved technique applied to new astrometric and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-26 Claudia Quercellini , Luca Amendola , Amedeo Balbi , Paolo Cabella , Miguel Quartin

Astronomical objects that change rapidly give us insight into extreme environments, allowing us to identify new phenomena, test fundamental physics, and probe the Universe on all scales. Transient and variable radio sources range from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Tara Murphy , David L. Kaplan

Time domain astronomy has come of age with astronomers now able to monitor the sky at high cadence both across the electromagnetic spectrum and using neutrinos and gravitational waves. The advent of new observing facilities permits new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-05 P. T. O'Brien , S. J. Smartt

The Liverpool Telescope is one of the world's premier facilities for time domain astronomy. The time domain landscape is set to radically change in the coming decade, with surveys such as LSST providing huge numbers of transient detections…

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