most citedIIb or not IIb: A Catalog of ZTF Kilonova Imposters

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astro-ph.IM2026

Photometric classification and out-of-taxonomy detection of ZTF transients with FLARE

Argyro Sasli, Felipe Fontinele Nunes, Xuanrui Zhang +17

Photometric classifiers decide which of the million nightly alerts of time-domain surveys receive one of the few thousand spectra taken each year, and they are the first place wher…

astro-ph.IM2026

Catching Disguised Transients with ASTRANet: Anomaly-Aware Spectroscopic Classification and Conformal Calibration

Argyro Sasli, Maojie Xu, Alexandra Junell +21

Time-domain surveys discover thousands of transients per year, but the spectroscopic identification of rare and physically peculiar objects remains rate-limited by closed-set class…

astro-ph.IM2026

Hyrax: An Extensible Framework for Rapid ML Experimentation and Unsupervised Discovery in the Era of Rubin, Roman, and Euclid

Aritra Ghosh, Drew Oldag, Michael Tauraso +29

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Roman Space Telescope, Euclid, and other next-generation surveys will deliver imaging, spectroscopic, and time-domain data at scales that inc…

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.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★ 5 cited

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…