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most citedSeventeen Tidal Disruption Events from the First Half of ZTF Survey Observations: Entering a New Era of Population Studies

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astro-ph.IM2026

The shell around VY Canis Majoris in SPHEREx is likely an artifact

Viraj Karambelkar, Yashvi Sharma, Kishalay De

Recently, the presence of a large shell around the bright hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris was reported in images from the SPHEREx mission. We report similar shells around other br…

astro-ph.IM2025

AppleCiDEr. II. SpectraNet: A Spectroscopic Neural Network Classifier for Transients Demonstrated on ZTF Follow-up Data

Maojie Xu, Argyro Sasli, Alexandra Junell +21

Time-domain surveys such as the Zwicky Transient Facility have opened a new frontier in the discovery and characterization of transients. While photometric light curves provide bro…

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

How accurate are transient spectral classification tools? -- A study using 4,646 SEDMachine spectra

Young-Lo Kim, Isobel Hook, Andrew Milligan +13

Accurate classification of transients obtained from spectroscopic data are important to understand their nature and discover new classes of astronomical objects. For supernovae (SN…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

India's first robotic eye for time domain astrophysics: the GROWTH-India telescope

Harsh Kumar, Varun Bhalerao, G. C. Anupama +35

We present the design and performance of the GROWTH-India telescope, a 0.7 m robotic telescope dedicated to time-domain astronomy. The telescope is equipped with a 4k back-illumina…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 60 cited

New Modules for the SEDMachine to Remove Contaminations from Cosmic Rays and Non-target Light: BYECR and CONTSEP

Y. -L. Kim, M. Rigault, J. D. Neill +9

Currently time-domain astronomy can scan the entire sky on a daily basis, discovering thousands of interesting transients every night. Classifying the ever-increasing number of new…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 24 cited

SNIascore: Deep Learning Classification of Low-Resolution Supernova Spectra

Christoffer Fremling, Xander J. Hall, Michael W. Coughlin +18

We present SNIascore, a deep-learning based method for spectroscopic classification of thermonuclear supernovae (SNe Ia) based on very low-resolution (R ) data. The goal o…