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Large time-domain sky surveys generate extensive multi-year catalogs of light curves in which scientifically valuable transients, such as supernovae (SNe), are vastly outnumbered by artifacts and routine star variability. While supervised…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Semenikhin T. A. , Kornilov M. V. , Pruzhinskaya M. V. , Krushinsky V. V. , Malanchev K. L. , Dodin A.

We present ${\tt nimbus}$ : a hierarchical Bayesian framework to infer the intrinsic luminosity parameters of kilonovae (KNe) associated with gravitational-wave (GW) events, based purely on non-detections. This framework makes use of GW 3-D…

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

We provide the first results from the complete SNAD adaptive learning pipeline in the context of a broad scope of data from large-scale astronomical surveys. The main goal of this work is to explore the potential of adaptive learning…

We investigate the ability of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to discover kilonovae (kNe) from binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers, focusing on serendipitous detections in the Wide-Fast-Deep (WFD)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-19 Christian N. Setzer , Rahul Biswas , Hiranya V. Peiris , Stephan Rosswog , Oleg Korobkin , Ryan T. Wollaeger

Automating real-time anomaly detection is essential for identifying rare transients, with modern survey telescopes generating tens of thousands of alerts per night, and future telescopes, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, projected to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 Rithwik Gupta , Daniel Muthukrishna , Michelle Lochner

Identification and characterisation of Kilonovae (KNe) can be instrumental in improving our understanding of cosmology and astrophysics. However, their detection poses unique challenges due to rarity and faintness. Upcoming telescopes, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-20 Anindya Ganguly , Anupreeta More

Modern wide-field time-domain surveys produce alert streams whose scientific potential is often concentrated in rare and unusual events. Efficient discovery therefore requires automated pipelines to be combined with rapid expert validation…

We present simulated observations to assess the ability of LSST and the WFD survey to detect and characterize kilonovae - the optical emission associated with binary neutron star (and possibly black hole - neutron star) mergers. We expand…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 P. S. Cowperthwaite , V. A. Villar , D. M. Scolnic , E. Berger

Kilonovae (KNe) are one of the fastest types of optical transients known, cooling rapidly in the first few days following their neutron-star merger origin. We show here that KN spectral features go through rapid recombination transitions,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-14 Albert Sneppen , Darach Watson , James H. Gillanders , Kasper E. Heintz

Gravitationally lensed supernovae (glSNe) are a powerful tool for exploring the realms of astronomy and cosmology. Time-delay measurements and lens modeling of glSNe can provide a robust and independent method for constraining the expansion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-25 Elahe Khalouei , Arman Shafieloo , Alex G. Kim , Ryan E. Keeley , William Sheu , Gregory S. H. Paek , Myungshin Im , Xiaosheng Huang , Hyung Mok Lee

Compact binary mergers detectable in gravitational waves can be accompanied by a kilonova, an electromagnetic transient powered by radioactive decay of newly synthesised r-process elements. A few kilonova candidates have been observed…

We describe the fast transient classification algorithm in the center of the kilonova (KN) science module currently implemented in the Fink broker and report classification results based on simulated catalogs and real data from the ZTF…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 B. Biswas , E. E. O. Ishida , J. Peloton , A. Moller , M. V. Pruzhinskaya , R. S. de Souza , D. Muthukrishna

Current and future optical and near-infrared wide-field surveys have the potential of finding kilonovae, the optical and infrared counterparts to neutron star mergers, independently of gravitational-wave or high-energy gamma-ray burst…

Supernovae mark the explosive deaths of stars and enrich the cosmos with heavy elements. Future telescopes will discover thousands of new supernovae nightly, creating a need to flag astrophysically interesting events rapidly for followup…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-23 V. Ashley Villar , Miles Cranmer , Gabriella Contardo , Shirley Ho , Joshua Yao-Yu Lin

Known for their efficiency in analyzing large data sets, machine learning classifiers are widely used in wide-field sky surveys. The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy of Time and Space Survey (LSST) will generate millions of alerts…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 Xinyue Sheng , Matt Nicholl , Ken W. Smith , David R. Young , Roy D. Williams , Heloise F. Stevance , Stephen J. Smartt , Shubham Srivastav , Thomas Moore

The growing scale and sophistication of cyberattacks pose critical challenges to network security, particularly in detecting diverse intrusion types within imbalanced datasets. Traditional intrusion detection systems (IDS) often struggle to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Nisith Dissanayake , Uthayasanker Thayasivam

With large numbers of transients discovered by current and future imaging surveys, machine learning is increasingly applied to light curve and host galaxy properties to select events for follow-up. However, finding rare types of transients…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Xinyue Sheng , Tuan Dung Pham , Zichi Zhang , Matt Nicholl , Thai Son Mai

This paper presents a novel density estimation method for anomaly detection using density matrices (a powerful mathematical formalism from quantum mechanics) and Fourier features. The method can be seen as an efficient approximation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Oscar Bustos-Brinez , Joseph Gallego-Mejia , Fabio A. González

The Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a new 1 $\text{deg}^2$ seeing-limited time-domain survey instrument designed for dedicated near-infrared follow-up of kilonovae from binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star-black…

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