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most citedThe Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events (ALeRCE) Alert Broker

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astro-ph.IM2025

ALeRCE light curve classifier: Tidal disruption event expansion pack

M. Pavez-Herrera, P. Sánchez-Sáez, L. Hernández-García +9

ALeRCE (Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events) processes the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) alert stream in preparation for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, clas…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 18 cited

ATAT: Astronomical Transformer for time series And Tabular data

G. Cabrera-Vives, D. Moreno-Cartagena, N. Astorga +14

The advent of next-generation survey instruments, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), is opening a window for new research in time…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 22 cited

Persistent and occasional: searching for the variable population of the ZTF/4MOST sky using ZTF data release 11

P. Sánchez-Sáez, J. Arredondo, A. Bayo +13

We present a variability, color and morphology based classifier, designed to identify transients, persistently variable, and non-variable sources, from the Zwicky Transient Facilit…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 4 cited

Multi-scale stamps for real-time classification of alert streams

Ignacio Reyes-Jainaga, Francisco Förster, Alejandra M. Muñoz Arancibia +15

In recent years, automatic classifiers of image cutouts (also called "stamps") have shown to be key for fast supernova discovery. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will distribute abou…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 12 cited

DELIGHT: Deep Learning Identification of Galaxy Hosts of Transients using Multi-resolution Images

Francisco Förster, Alejandra M. Muñoz Arancibia, Ignacio Reyes +25

We present DELIGHT, or Deep Learning Identification of Galaxy Hosts of Transients, a new algorithm designed to automatically and in real-time identify the host galaxies of extragal…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 48 cited

Searching for changing-state AGNs in massive datasets -- I: applying deep learning and anomaly detection techniques to find AGNs with anomalous variability behaviours

P. Sánchez-Sáez, H. Lira, L. Martí +14

The classic classification scheme for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) was recently challenged by the discovery of the so-called changing-state (changing-look) AGNs (CSAGNs). The phys…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 14 cited

The effect of phased recurrent units in the classification of multiple catalogs of astronomical lightcurves

C. Donoso-Oliva, G. Cabrera-Vives, P. Protopapas +2

In the new era of very large telescopes, where data is crucial to expand scientific knowledge, we have witnessed many deep learning applications for the automatic classification of…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 196 cited

The Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events (ALeRCE) Alert Broker

F. Förster, G. Cabrera-Vives, E. Castillo-Navarrete +37

We introduce the Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events (ALeRCE) broker, an astronomical alert broker designed to provide a rapid and self--consistent classifica…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 135 cited

Alert Classification for the ALeRCE Broker System: The Light Curve Classifier

P. Sánchez-Sáez, I. Reyes, C. Valenzuela +23

We present the first version of the ALeRCE (Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events) broker light curve classifier. ALeRCE is currently processing the Zwicky Tran…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 59 cited

Alert Classification for the ALeRCE Broker System: The Real-time Stamp Classifier

Rodrigo Carrasco-Davis, Esteban Reyes, Camilo Valenzuela +20

We present a real-time stamp classifier of astronomical events for the ALeRCE (Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events) broker. The classifier is based on a convo…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 22 cited

The High Cadence Transient Survey (HITS): Compilation and characterization of light-curve catalogs

Jorge Martínez-Palomera, Francisco Förster, Pavlos Protopapas +12

The High Cadence Transient Survey (HiTS) aims to discover and study transient objects with characteristic timescales between hours and days, such as pulsating, eclipsing and explod…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 10 cited

Enhanced Rotational Invariant Convolutional Neural Network for Supernovae Detection

Esteban Reyes, Pablo A. Estévez, Ignacio Reyes +4

In this paper, we propose an enhanced CNN model for detecting supernovae (SNe). This is done by applying a new method for obtaining rotational invariance that exploits cyclic symme…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 47 cited

Deep Learning for Image Sequence Classification of Astronomical Events

Rodrigo Carrasco-Davis, Guillermo Cabrera-Vives, Francisco Förster +6

We propose a new sequential classification model for astronomical objects based on a recurrent convolutional neural network (RCNN) which uses sequences of images as inputs. This ap…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 122 cited

Deep-HiTS: Rotation Invariant Convolutional Neural Network for Transient Detection

Guillermo Cabrera-Vives, Ignacio Reyes, Francisco Förster +2

We introduce Deep-HiTS, a rotation invariant convolutional neural network (CNN) model for classifying images of transients candidates into artifacts or real sources for the High ca…