Publications (96)
Explaining the GWSkyNet-Multi machine learning classifier predictions for gravitational-wave events
Nayyer Raza, Man Leong Chan, Daryl Haggard +5
Time-series and Phasecurve Photometry of Episodically-Active Asteroid (6478) Gault in a Quiescent State Using APO, GROWTH, P200 and ZTF
Josiah N. Purdum, Zhong-Yi Lin, Bryce T. Bolin +49
Grist: Grid-based Data Mining for Astronomy
Joseph C. Jacob, Roy Williams, Jogesh Babu +8
Machine Learning for the Zwicky Transient Facility
Ashish Mahabal, Umaa Rebbapragada, Richard Walters +47
Discovery of Two Spectroscopically Peculiar, Low-Luminosity Quasars at z~4
Eilat Glikman, S. G. Djorgovski, Daniel Stern +2
Discovery and confirmation of the shortest gamma ray burst from a collapsar
Tomas Ahumada, Leo P. Singer, Shreya Anand +54
Science-Driven Optimization of the LSST Observing Strategy
LSST Science Collaboration, Phil Marshall, Timo Anguita +102
Global Data in Astronomy: Challenges and Opportunities
Renee Hložek, Chenzhou Cui, Mark Allen +7
Initial Characterization of Active Transitioning Centaur, P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS), using Hubble, Spitzer, ZTF, Keck, APO and GROWTH Visible & Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy
Bryce T. Bolin, Yanga R. Fernandez, Carey M. Lisse +43
Estimates of Rotation Periods for Jupiter Trojans with the Zwicky Transient Facility Photometric Lightcurves
Zhuofu Li, Yasin A. Chowdhury, Željko IveziÄ +12
Towards Efficient Detection of Small Near-Earth Asteroids Using the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)
Quanzhi Ye, Frank J. Masci, Hsing Wen Lin +23
A Dust Lane in the Radio galaxy 3C270
Ashish Mahabal, Ajit Kembhavi, ; K. P. Singh +2
AstroInformatics: Recommendations for Global Cooperation
Ashish Mahabal, Pranav Sharma, Rana Adhikari +45
Beyond Low Earth Orbit: Biological Research, Artificial Intelligence, and Self-Driving Labs
Lauren M. Sanders, Jason H. Yang, Ryan T. Scott +53
2900 square degree search for the optical counterpart of short gamma-ray burst GRB 180523B with the Zwicky Transient Facility
Michael W. Coughlin, Tomas Ahumada, S. Bradley Cenko +31
Results from the Supernova Photometric Classification Challenge
Richard Kessler, Bruce Bassett, Pavel Belov +24
A Limit on the Number of Isolated Neutron Stars Detected in the ROSAT Bright Source Catalog
Robert E. Rutledge, Derek W. Fox, Milan Bogosavljevic +1
Beyond Low Earth Orbit: Biomonitoring, Artificial Intelligence, and Precision Space Health
Ryan T. Scott, Erik L. Antonsen, Lauren M. Sanders +53
Effective Image Differencing with ConvNets for Real-time Transient Hunting
Nima Sedaghat, Ashish Mahabal
Dust Reddened Quasars in FIRST and UKIDSS: Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg
Eilat Glikman, Tanya Urrutia, Mark Lacy +7
Tails: Chasing Comets with the Zwicky Transient Facility and Deep Learning
Dmitry A. Duev, Bryce T. Bolin, Matthew J. Graham +12
The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results
Eric C. Bellm, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Matthew J. Graham +112
Selfish Evolution: Making Discoveries in Extreme Label Noise with the Help of Overfitting Dynamics
Nima Sedaghat, Tanawan Chatchadanoraset, Colin Orion Chandler +2
GWSkyNet II : a refined machine learning pipeline for real-time classification of public gravitational wave alerts
Man Leong Chan, Jess McIver, Ashish Mahabal +12
Effective Radii and Color Gradients in Radio Galaxies
Ashish Mahabal, Ajit Kembhavi, Patrick J. P. McCarthy
Probabilistic Data-Driven Modelling of Astrophysical Transients: The Neural Process Family for Ultrafast and Class-Agnostic Light Curve Reconstruction with NightLANP
Siddharth Chaini, Federica B. Bianco, Ashish Mahabal
Characterization of the Nucleus, Morphology and Activity of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov by Optical and Near-Infrared GROWTH, Apache Point, IRTF, ZTF and Keck Observations
Bryce T. Bolin, Carey M. Lisse, Mansi M. Kasliwal +52
Recurring Outbursts of P/2019 LM$_4$ (Palomar)
Quanzhi Ye, Michael S. Kelley, Dennis Bodewits +4
The VAO Transient Facility
Matthew J. Graham, S. G. Djorgovski, Andrew Drake +3
New methods to assess and improve LIGO detector duty cycle
Ayon Biswas, Jess McIver, Ashish Mahabal
Palomar-QUEST: A case study in designing sky surveys in the VO era
Matthew J. Graham, Roy Williams, S. G. Djorgovski +10
Characterization of Temporarily-Captured Minimoon 2020 CD$_3$ by Keck Time-resolved Spectrophotometry
Bryce T. Bolin, Christoffer Fremling, Timothy R. Holt +42
Immersive and Collaborative Data Visualization Using Virtual Reality Platforms
Ciro Donalek, S. G. Djorgovski, Scott Davidoff +10
Large Language Model-driven Analysis of General Coordinates Network (GCN) Circulars
Vidushi Sharma, Ronit Agarwala, Judith L. Racusin +9
Inferring CSM Properties of Type II SNe Using a Magnitude-Limited ZTF Sample
K-Ryan Hinds, Daniel Perley, Jesper Sollerman +20
Nigraha: Machine-learning based pipeline to identify and evaluate planet candidates from TESS
Sriram Rao, Ashish Mahabal, Niyanth Rao +1
Large Projects in Astronomy: An Indian Endeavour
Yogesh Wadadekar, Shriharsh Tendulkar, Sanjit Mitra +6
Object detection in multi-epoch data
G. Jogesh Babu, Ashish Mahabal, S. G. Djorgovski +1
BOOM and Babamul: a real-time, multi-survey, optical alert broker system operating at scale
Theophile Jegou du Laz, Michael W. Coughlin, Peter Bachant +17
ZTF25abjmnps (AT2025ulz) and S250818k: A Candidate Superkilonova from a Sub-threshold Sub-Solar Gravitational Wave Trigger
Mansi M. Kasliwal, Tomas Ahumada, Robert Stein +61
Eliminating artefacts in Polarimetric Images using Deep Learning
Dhruv Paranjpye, Ashish Mahabal, A. N. Ramaprakash +5
GWSkyNet-Multi II: an updated machine learning model for rapid classification of gravitational-wave events
Nayyer Raza, Man Leong Chan, Daryl Haggard +5
An Extremely Luminous Flare Recorded from a Supermassive Black Hole
Matthew J. Graham, Barry McKernan, K. E. Saavik Ford +17
Enabling Kilonova Science with Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Alexander W. Criswell +16
The Deeper, Wider, Faster Program: Exploring stellar flare activity with deep, fast cadenced DECam imaging via machine learning
Sara Webb, Chris Flynn, Jeff Cooke +9
A large fraction of hydrogen-rich supernova progenitors experience elevated mass loss shortly prior to explosion
Rachel J. Bruch, Avishay Gal-Yam, Steve Schulze +43
Workforce Development in Astronomy and Astroinformatics
Kartik Sheth, Kevin Govender, Vanessa McBride +8
The Zwicky Transient Facility Bright Transient Survey. II. A Public Statistical Sample for Exploring Supernova Demographics
Daniel A. Perley, Christoffer Fremling, Jesper Sollerman +34
FIRST-2MASS Red Quasars: Transitional Objects Emerging from the Dust
Eilat Glikman, Tanya Urrutia, Mark Lacy +8
Deep-Learnt Classification of Light Curves
Ashish Mahabal, Kshiteej Sheth, Fabian Gieseke +5
In Search of the Unknown Unknowns: A Multi-Metric Distance Ensemble for Out of Distribution Anomaly Detection in Astronomical Surveys
Siddharth Chaini, Federica B. Bianco, Ashish Mahabal
Detection of quasars in the time domain
Matthew J. Graham, S. G. Djorgovski, Daniel J. Stern +2
The first tidal disruption flare in ZTF: from photometric selection to multi-wavelength characterization
Sjoert van Velzen, Suvi Gezari, S. Bradley Cenko +37
The nature of ASASSN-24fw's occultation: modelling the event as dimming by optically thick rings around a sub-stellar companion
Sarang Shah, Jonathan P. Marshall, Carlos del Burgo +12
GROWTH on S190510g: DECam Observation Planning and Follow-Up of a Distant Binary Neutron Star Merger Candidate
Igor Andreoni, Daniel A. Goldstein, Shreya Anand +23
GWSkyNet-Multi: A Machine Learning Multi-Class Classifier for LIGO-Virgo Public Alerts
Thomas C. Abbott, Eitan Buffaz, Nicholas Vieira +4
GWSkyNet: a real-time classifier for public gravitational-wave candidates
Miriam Cabero, Ashish Mahabal, Jess McIver
Regional and Global Collaborations in Astronomy
Kazuhiro Sekiguchi, Jess McIver, Annapurni Subramaniam +10
Training a neural network to rapidly identify candidate gravitational-wave events in the lower mass gap
Nayyer Raza, Man Leong Chan, Daryl Haggard +5
Binary Quasars at High Redshift I: 24 New Quasar Pairs at z ~ 3-4
Joseph F. Hennawi, Adam D. Myers, Yue Shen +9
Long Term Space Data and Informatics Needs
S. Bradley Cenko, Richard Doyle, Daniel Crichton +5
AstroAlertBench: Evaluating the Accuracy, Reasoning, and Honesty of Multimodal LLMs in Astronomical Classification
Claire Chen, Jiabao Sean Xiao, Shuze Daniel Liu +7
Understanding extreme quasar optical variability with CRTS: II. Changing-state quasars
Matthew J. Graham, Nicholas P. Ross, Daniel Stern +8
DeepStreaks: identifying fast-moving objects in the Zwicky Transient Facility data with deep learning
Dmitry A. Duev, Ashish Mahabal, Quanzhi Ye +12
Bigger Buffer k-d Trees on Multi-Many-Core Systems
Fabian Gieseke, Cosmin Eugen Oancea, Ashish Mahabal +2
Gaia DR3 Variable White Dwarfs vetted by ZTF
Timour Jestin, Thinh Nguyen, Laurent Eyer +6
Ghosts of eruptions past: Searching for historical Galactic supernovae using variable thermal dust echoes and machine learning
Justin Vega, Kishalay De, Ashish Mahabal +4
The Zwicky Transient Facility: Data Processing, Products, and Archive
Frank J. Masci, Russ R. Laher, Ben Rusholme +46
Enabling real-time multi-messenger astrophysics discoveries with deep learning
E. A. Huerta, Gabrielle Allen, Igor Andreoni +57
A Machine Learning empowered search for Sub-Minute Optical Transient Events with the Deeper, Wider, Faster programme
Simon R. Goode, Sara A. Webb, Jeff Cooke +12
Data challenges of time domain astronomy
Matthew J. Graham, S. G. Djorgovski, Ashish Mahabal +3
The Fast, Luminous Ultraviolet Transient AT2018cow: Extreme Supernova, or Disruption of a Star by an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole?
Daniel A. Perley, Paolo A. Mazzali, Lin Yan +60
Semi-Supervised Learning for Lensed Quasar Detection
David Sweeney, Alberto Krone-Martins, Daniel Stern +7
Unsupervised machine learning for transient discovery in Deeper, Wider, Faster light curves
Sara Webb, Michelle Lochner, Daniel Muthukrishna +7
Deep Learning for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics: A Gateway for Discovery in the Big Data Era
Gabrielle Allen, Igor Andreoni, Etienne Bachelet +45
The Faint End of the Quasar Luminosity Function at z~4
Eilat Glikman, Milan Bogosavljevic, S. G. Djorgovski +4
Astronomy with Cutting-Edge ICT: From Transients in the Sky to Data over the Continents (India-US)
Ashish Mahabal, Ajit Kembhavi, Roy Williams +1
Seventeen Tidal Disruption Events from the First Half of ZTF Survey Observations: Entering a New Era of Population Studies
Sjoert van Velzen, Suvi Gezari, Erica Hammerstein +34
Binary Quasars at High Redshift II: Sub-Mpc Clustering at z ~ 3-4
Yue Shen, Joseph F. Hennawi, Francesco Shankar +8
Kilonova Luminosity Function Constraints based on Zwicky Transient Facility Searches for 13 Neutron Star Mergers
Mansi M. Kasliwal, Shreya Anand, Tomas Ahumada +100
Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory Detailed Science Case 2024
Warren Skidmore, Bob Kirshner, David Andersen +168
Palomar Gattini-IR: Survey overview, data processing system, on-sky performance and first results
Kishalay De, Matthew J. Hankins, Mansi M. Kasliwal +24
Real-bogus classification for the Zwicky Transient Facility using deep learning
Dmitry A. Duev, Ashish Mahabal, Frank J. Masci +8
A Search for Extra-Tidal RR Lyrae in the Globular Cluster NGC 5024 and NGC 5053
Chow-Choong Ngeow, Justin Belecki, Rick Burruss +9
The Broad-lined Ic Supernova ZTF18aaqjovh (SN 2018bvw): An Optically-discovered Engine-driven Supernova Candidate with Luminous Radio Emission
Anna Y. Q. Ho, Alessandra Corsi, S. Bradley Cenko +23
A population of heavily reddened, optically missed novae from Palomar Gattini-IR: Constraints on the Galactic nova rate
Kishalay De, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Matthew J. Hankins +25
Light Curve Classification with DistClassiPy: a new distance-based classifier
Siddharth Chaini, Ashish Mahabal, Ajit Kembhavi +1
Latest Developments and Opportunities in Sky Survey
Anthony Brown, Federica Bianco, Varun Bhalerao +5
$\texttt{tdescore}$: An Accurate Photometric Classifier for Tidal Disruption Events
Robert Stein, Ashish Mahabal, Simeon Reusch +12
LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
Željko IveziÄ, Steven M. Kahn, J. Anthony Tyson +310
An Exploratory Search for z~6 Quasars in the UKIDSS Early Data Release
Eilat Glikman, Alexander Eigenbrod, S. G. Djorgovski +4
A Twilight Search for Atiras, Vatiras and Co-orbital Asteroids: Preliminary Results
Quanzhi Ye, Frank J. Masci, Wing-Huen Ip +12
10 Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data
Alyssa Goodman, Alberto Pepe, Alexander W. Blocker +12
Modeling Light Curves for Improved Classification
Julian Faraway, Ashish Mahabal, Jiayang Sun +4
Highly Variable Objects in the Palomar-QUEST Survey: A Blazar Search using Optical Variability
Anne Bauer, Charles Baltay, Paolo Coppi +11
DAME: A Web Oriented Infrastructure for Scientific Data Mining & Exploration
Massimo Brescia, Giuseppe Longo, George S. Djorgovski +12