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20162024
most citedSearching for Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Merger Events with the Prototype Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO-4)

108 citations · 228 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

astro-ph.SR2024★ 6 cited

A study in scarlet -- II. Spectroscopic properties of a sample of Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients

G. Valerin, A. Pastorello, E. Mason +65

We investigate the spectroscopic characteristics of Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients (ILRTs), a class of elusive objects with peak luminosity between that of classical novae…

cs.CV2022★ 6 cited

Self-Supervised Clustering on Image-Subtracted Data with Deep-Embedded Self-Organizing Map

Y. -L. Mong, K. Ackley, T. L. Killestein +45

Developing an effective automatic classifier to separate genuine sources from artifacts is essential for transient follow-ups in wide-field optical surveys. The identification of t…

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★ 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★ 3 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 17 cited

Machine Learning for Transient Recognition in Difference Imaging With Minimum Sampling Effort

Yik-Lun Mong, Kendall Ackley, Duncan Galloway +45

The amount of observational data produced by time-domain astronomy is exponentially in-creasing. Human inspection alone is not an effective way to identify genuine transients fromt…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 108 cited

Searching for Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Merger Events with the Prototype Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO-4)

B. P. Gompertz, R. Cutter, D. Steeghs +49

We report the results of optical follow-up observations of 29 gravitational-wave triggers during the first half of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC) O3 run with the Gravitational-…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 5 cited

Progenitor constraints for core-collapse supernovae from Chandra X-ray observations

T. Heikkilä, S. Tsygankov, S. Mattila +3

The progenitors of hydrogen-poor core-collapse supernovae (SNe) of types Ib, Ic and IIb are believed to have shed their outer hydrogen envelopes either by extremely strong stellar…