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Gemini North Adaptive Optics (GNAO) facility overview and status updates
Gaetano Sivo, Julia Scharwächter, Manuel Lazo +54
The Gemini North Adaptive Optics (GNAO) facility is the upcoming AO facility for Gemini North providing a state-of-the-art AO system for surveys and time domain science in the era…
Strategic Scientific Plan for Gemini Observatory
J. P. Blakeslee, A. Adamson, C. Davis +30
We present the Strategic Scientific Plan (SSP) for the direction and activities of the Gemini Observatory in the 2020s. The overarching goal is to ensure that Gemini best uses the…
Probing the Time Domain with High Spatial Resolution
J. P. Blakeslee, S. A. Rodney, J. M. Lotz +17
Two groundbreaking new facilities will commence operations early in the 2020s and thereafter define much of the broad landscape of US optical-infrared astronomy in the remaining de…
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…
Robust period estimation using mutual information for multi-band light curves in the synoptic survey era
Pablo Huijse, Pablo A. Estevez, Francisco Forster +5
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will produce an unprecedented amount of light curves using six optical bands. Robust and efficient methods that can aggregate data from m…