3 papers
astro-ph.IM2011
Real Time Classification of Transient Events in Synoptic Sky Surveys
Ashish A. Mahabal, C. Donalek, S. G. Djorgovski +6
An automated, rapid classification of transient events detected in the modern synoptic sky surveys is essential for their scientific utility and effective follow-up using scarce re…
astro-ph.IM2011
Discovery, classification, and scientific exploration of transient events from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey
A. A. Mahabal, S. G. Djorgovski, A. J. Drake +8
Exploration of the time domain - variable and transient objects and phenomena - is rapidly becoming a vibrant research frontier, touching on essentially every field of astronomy an…
astro-ph.IM2011
Towards an Automated Classification of Transient Events in Synoptic Sky Surveys
S. G. Djorgovski, C. Donalek, A. Mahabal +6
We describe the development of a system for an automated, iterative, real-time classification of transient events discovered in synoptic sky surveys. The system under development i…