3 papers
astro-ph.IM2025
AppleCiDEr II: SpectraNet -- A Deep Learning Network for Spectroscopic Data
Maojie Xu, Argyro Sasli, Alexandra Junell +21
Time-domain surveys such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) have opened a new frontier in the discovery and characterization of transients. While photometric light curves provi…
astro-ph.IM2025
Applying multimodal learning to Classify transient Detections Early (AppleCiDEr) I: Data set, methods, and infrastructure
Alexandra Junell, Argyro Sasli, Felipe Fontinele Nunes +18
Modern time-domain surveys like the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) generate hundreds of thousands to millions of alerts, demanding a…
astro-ph.HE2025
IIb or not IIb: A Catalog of ZTF Kilonova Imposters
Tyler Barna, Christoffer Fremling, Tomas Ahumada +12
Among the various classes of fast optical transients (FOTs), kilonovae (KNe), which can emerge as a result of neutron star mergers, are extremely challenging to observe because of…