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most citedThe zenithal 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope: a unique facility for supernova studies

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astro-ph.HE2026

Optical observations of supernova candidates with the ILMT

Monalisa Dubey, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +10

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-m optical ({\em gri} spectral bands) zenithal survey telescope with a field of view of 22.322.3 arcmin, suitable for…

astro-ph.IM2026

Unveiling photometric transients with the ILMT and their follow-up using DOT

Priyanshi Kumari, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +10

The two 4-m class telescopes at the Devasthal site in India are complementary: the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is dedicated to the discovery of new transient p…

astro-ph.IM2026

From Sky to Science: Time Domain Astronomy with the ILMT Survey

Kuntal Misra, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +10

The PyLMT transient detection pipeline has been operational since November 2023 and has detected 10,000 transients and variable objects in ILMT images in near real time. The…

astro-ph.IM2026

Modelling the Point Spread Function of ILMT images

Naveen Dukiya, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11

We have devised an approach to model the empirical Point Spread Function (PSF) of the images taken with the 4-meter International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT). The characteristic…

astro-ph.IM2026

Demonstrating the Time-Domain Capabilities of the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope: An Early Census of Transient and Variable Detections

Kumar Pranshu, Kuntal Misra, Bhavya Ailawadhi +11

The PyLMT transient detection pipeline has been operational since November 2023, detecting transient and variable objects in the ILMT images in almost real time. Using the image su…

astro-ph.EP2026

Detection and identification of asteroids with the 4-m ILMT

Sara Filali, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) covers a 22.3' wide strip of sky in declination (δ), centred at δ = +29° 21' 41.4'' and right ascension (α) in the range 0 h <= α <…

astro-ph.IM2026

Astrometric Calibration of the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope Observations

Vibhore Negi, Naveen Dukiya, Gokul Singh Mehra +12

The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a dedicated time domain survey telescope that continuously scans the zenithal sky over the Indian Himalayas in the g', r' an…

astro-ph.EP2026

Performance of the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope tested in two fields at high and low ecliptic and galactic latitudes

Sara Filali, Kumar Pranshu, Jean Surdej +10

The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) offers a unique opportunity to detect transients in a narrow strip of sky. We explore ILMT's potential to detect astrometric an…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 4 cited

The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope: Construction, operation, and science

Jean Surdej, Paul Hickson, Kuntal Misra +26

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) project was motivated by the need for an inexpensive 4 metre diameter optical telescope that could be devoted entirely to astronomi…

astro-ph.IM2025

PyLMT: A transient detection pipeline for the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope

Kumar Pranshu, Kuntal Misra, Bhavya Ailawadhi +7

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…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope: a brief history and some preliminary scientific results

Jean Surdej, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +12

The present article is based upon an invited talk delivered at the occasion of the inauguration of the 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) which took place in Devasthal…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

SunPhot: Preparations for an upcoming quasar variability survey with the International Liquid Mirror Telescope

Ethen Sun, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11

Recent research suggests a correlation between the variability and intrinsic brightness of quasars. If calibrated, this could lead to the use of quasars on the cosmic distance ladd…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Surface Brightness Properties of LSB Galaxies with the International Liquid Mirror Telescope

Jiuyang Fu, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11

Low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies make up a significant fraction of the luminosity density of the local universe. Their low surface brightness suggests a different formation an…

astro-ph.IM2023

Survey of Variables with the ILMT

Baldeep Grewal, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11

Nestled in the mountains of Northern India, is a 4-metre rotating dish of liquid mercury. Over a 10-year period, the International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) will survey 117 sq…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Observation of mulitply imaged quasars with the 4-m ILMT

Talat Akhunov, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Ermanno Borra +12

Gravitationally lensed quasars (GLQs) are known to potentially provide an independent way of determining the value of the Hubble-Lemaître parameter , to probe the dark matte…

astro-ph.IM2023

Follow-up strategy of ILMT discovered supernovae

Brajesh Kumar, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11

The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) facility continuously scans the same sky strip (22 wide) on each night with a fixed pointing towards the zenith d…

astro-ph.IM2023

Astrometric and photometric calibrators for the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope

Naveen Dukiya, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-meter class survey telescope. It achieved its first light on 29 April 2022 and is now undergoing the commissionin…

astro-ph.IM2023

A year-long representation of the ILMT observations in different coordinate systems

Monalisa Dubey, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11

The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is the first optical survey telescope in India that performs zenithal observations of a 22 wide strip of the sky. To determin…

astro-ph.IM2023

The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope project

Jean Surdej, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +12

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) project is a scientific collaboration in observational astrophysics between the Li{è}ge Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics (L…

astro-ph.IM2023

Serendipitous Detection of Orbital Debris by the International Liquid Mirror Telescope: First Results

Paul Hickson, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11

Orbital debris presents a growing risk to space operations, and is becoming a significant source of contamination of astronomical images. Much of the debris population is uncatalog…

astro-ph.IM2023

Detection and Identification of Asteroids with the 4-m ILMT

Anna Pospieszalska-Surdej, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +12

A very unique strength of the Devasthal Observatory is its capability of detecting optical transients with the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) and to rapidly follo…

astro-ph.IM2023

Accessibility of the ILMT survey data

Kuntal Misra, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11

The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) continuously scans a 22 wide strip of the zenithal sky and records the images in three broadband filters (g', r' and i') usin…

astro-ph.IM2023

Automated transient detection in the context of the 4m ILMT

Kumar Pranshu, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov +11

In the era of sky surveys like Palomar Transient Factory (PTF), Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the upcoming Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) and ILMT, a plethora of image data wil…

astro-ph.IM2023

An automated photometric pipeline for the ILMT data

Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov, Ermanno Borra +11

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-meter survey telescope continuously observing towards the zenith in the SDSS g', r', and i' bands. This survey telescope is…