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most citedGRB 221009A: Discovery of an Exceptionally Rare Nearby and Energetic Gamma-Ray Burst

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astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO): prototype performance and prospects for transient science

D. Steeghs, D. K. Galloway, K. Ackley +50

The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is an array of wide-field optical telescopes, designed to exploit new discoveries from the next generation of gravitational…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 33 cited

Exploring compact binary merger host galaxies and environments with

S. Mandhai, G. P. Lamb, N. R. Tanvir +5

Compact binaries such as double neutron stars or a neutron star paired with a black-hole, are strong sources of gravitational waves during coalescence and also the likely progenito…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 10 cited

Searching For Fermi GRB Optical Counterparts With The Prototype Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO)

Y. -L. Mong, K. Ackley, D. K. Galloway +45

The typical detection rate of gamma-ray burst (GRB) per day by the \emph{Fermi} Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) provides a valuable opportunity to further our understanding o…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 30 cited

Light curve classification with recurrent neural networks for GOTO: dealing with imbalanced data

U. F. Burhanudin, J. R. Maund, T. Killestein +42

The advent of wide-field sky surveys has led to the growth of transient and variable source discoveries. The data deluge produced by these surveys has necessitated the use of machi…

astro-ph.IM2021

Processing GOTO data with the Rubin Observatory LSST Science Pipelines II: Forced Photometry and light curves

L. Makrygianni, J. Mullaney, V. Dhillon +45

We have adapted the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Science Pipelines to process data from the Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO)…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 40 cited

Transient-optimised real-bogus classification with Bayesian Convolutional Neural Networks -- sifting the GOTO candidate stream

T. L. Killestein, J. Lyman, D. Steeghs +45

Large-scale sky surveys have played a transformative role in our understanding of astrophysical transients, only made possible by increasingly powerful machine learning-based filte…