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astro-ph.IM2026

Photometric classification and out-of-taxonomy detection of ZTF transients with FLARE

Argyro Sasli, Felipe Fontinele Nunes, Xuanrui Zhang +17

Photometric classifiers decide which of the million nightly alerts of time-domain surveys receive one of the few thousand spectra taken each year, and they are the first place wher…

astro-ph.IM2026

A comprehensive simulation framework for multi-modal kilonova observations from all-sky surveys

Felipe Fontinele Nunes, Andrew Toivonen, Farhana Taiyebah +5

Current all-sky surveys such as Vera Rubin's Legacy Survey of Space and Time and the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) promise a wealth of scientific gains that are contained in the…

astro-ph.IM2026

A Proliferated Space Architecture for Time-Domain Astrophysics

Daniel Kocevski, Eric Burns, Thomas Barclay +58

Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (TDAMM) is entering a discovery-rich but follow-up-limited era, creating an urgent need for responsive, multiwavelength space-based cap…

astro-ph.IM2026

A data processing pipeline for the WINTER near-infrared surveyor using the framework

Viraj Karambelkar, Robert Stein, Danielle Frostig +18

We present the data reduction and transient detection pipeline for the Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) surveyor and report its on-sky performance. The WINTER camera…

astro-ph.IM2026

Catching Disguised Transients with ASTRANet: Anomaly-Aware Spectroscopic Classification and Conformal Calibration

Argyro Sasli, Maojie Xu, Alexandra Junell +21

Time-domain surveys discover thousands of transients per year, but the spectroscopic identification of rare and physically peculiar objects remains rate-limited by closed-set class…

astro-ph.IM2026

nmma: An extended Bayesian framework for Nuclear Multimessenger Astronomy in the Era of Next-Generation Detectors

Henrik Rose, Hauke Koehn, Thibeau Wouters +4

Context. The joint analysis of different (astro-)physical messengers, in particular gravitational-wave data and electromagnetic follow-up observations, allows us to establish, expl…

astro-ph.IM2026

Leveraging Multimodality for Real-Time Classification of Transients and Variables found by the Zwicky Transient Facility

Ved G. Shah, Nabeel Rehemtulla, Adam A. Miller +13

Modern time-domain surveys such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) generate hundreds of thousands of alerts each night, making real-time decisions for follow-up observations a…

astro-ph.IM2026

Method to get Better Sky Maps in a GstLAL Low-Latency Analysis

Prathamesh Joshi, Becca Ewing, Chad Hanna +40

Modeled gravitational wave searches correlate the strain data with a bank of gravitational wave template waveforms to make detections of gravitational wave candidates, and these re…

astro-ph.IM2026

skysurvey: a pure python package to simulate the transient sky

M. Rigault, M. Ginolin, L. Dellazzeri +12

Accurate simulation of astronomical observations is a critical element for any modern analyses, be it to measure event rates, analyses population properties, validate or train pipe…

astro-ph.IM2026

LUMOS : Linear programming Utility for Multi-messenger Optical Scheduling

Yogesh P. Wagh, Michael W. Coughlin, Leo P. Singer +1

The detection of gravitational-wave events by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA has opened new avenues for multi-messenger astrophysics; however, electromagnetic counterparts remain elusive due to…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

The automation of optical transient discovery and classification in Rubin-era time-domain astronomy

Nabeel Rehemtulla, Michael W. Coughlin, Adam A. Miller +1

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 wo…

astro-ph.IM2025

Pre-training vision models for the classification of alerts from wide-field time-domain surveys

Nabeel Rehemtulla, Adam A. Miller, Mike Walmsley +15

Modern wide-field time-domain surveys facilitate the study of transient, variable and moving phenomena by conducting image differencing and relaying alerts to their communities. Ma…

astro-ph.IM2025

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

With the arrival of ever higher throughput wide-field surveys and a multitude of multi-messenger and multi-wavelength instruments to complement them, software capable of harnessing…

astro-ph.IM2025

Applying multimodal learning to Classify transient Detections Early (AppleCiDEr) I: Data set, methods, and infrastructure

Alexandra Junell, Argyro Sasli, Felipe Fontinele Nunes +18

Modern time-domain surveys like the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) generate hundreds of thousands to millions of alerts, demanding a…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 4 cited

Optimal Follow-Up of Gravitational-Wave Events with the UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX)

Leo P. Singer, Alexander W. Criswell, Sydney C. Leggio +10

The UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX) is a wide-field ultraviolet space telescope selected as a NASA Medium-Class Explorer (MIDEX) mission for launch in 2030. UVEX will undertake deep, c…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

CCSNscore: A multi-input deep learning tool for classification of core-collapse supernovae using SED-Machine spectra

Yashvi Sharma, Ashish A. Mahabal, Jesper Sollerman +16

Supernovae (SNe) come in various flavors and are classified into different types based on emission and absorption lines in their spectra. SN candidates are now abundant with the ad…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 6 cited

Rubin ToO 2024: Envisioning the Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Target of Opportunity program

Igor Andreoni, Raffaella Margutti, John Banovetz +86

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at Vera C. Rubin Observatory is planned to begin in the Fall of 2025. The LSST survey cadence has been designed via a community-driven pr…

astro-ph.IM2024

The Zwicky Transient Facility Bright Transient Survey. III. : Automated Identification and Follow-up of Bright Transients with Deep Learning

Nabeel Rehemtulla, Adam A. Miller, Theophile Jegou Du Laz +10

The Bright Transient Survey (BTS) aims to obtain a classification spectrum for all bright (mag) extragalactic transients found in the Zwicky Transien…

astro-ph.IM2023

The ZTF Source Classification Project: III. A Catalog of Variable Sources

Brian F. Healy, Michael W. Coughlin, Ashish A. Mahabal +22

The classification of variable objects provides insight into a wide variety of astrophysics ranging from stellar interiors to galactic nuclei. The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) p…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 31 cited

A strategy for LSST to unveil a population of kilonovae without gravitational-wave triggers

Igor Andreoni, Shreya Anand, Federica B. Bianco +10

We present a cadence optimization strategy to unveil a large population of kilonovae using optical imaging alone. These transients are generated during binary neutron star and pote…