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astro-ph.IM2025
A Python client for the ATLAS API
Heloise F. Stevance, Jack Leland, Ken W. Smith
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) is an all-sky optical sky survey with a cadence of 24 to 48 hours and the ATLAS Transient Server processes the alert strea…
astro-ph.IM2024
Enabling Science from the Rubin Alert Stream with Lasair
Roy D. Williams, Gareth P. Francis, Andy Lawrence +4
Lasair is the UK Community Broker for transient alerts from the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. We explain the system's capabilities, how…
astro-ph.IM2023
NEural Engine for Discovering Luminous Events (NEEDLE): identifying rare transient candidates in real time from host galaxy images
Xinyue Sheng, Matt Nicholl, Ken W. Smith +6
Known for their efficiency in analyzing large data sets, machine learning classifiers are widely used in wide-field sky surveys. The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy of Ti…