3 papers
astro-ph.HE2026
Searching for Neutron Star Mergers in the Absence of Gravitational Waves with Optical Afterglow Emission
Haille M. L. Perkins, Gautham Narayan, Brian D. Fields +2
With the forth observing run of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA gravitational-wave network, which enabled the discovery of the kilonova (KN) counterpart to GW170817, ending with no new confir…
astro-ph.IM2025
ORACLE: A Real-Time, Hierarchical, Deep-Learning Photometric Classifier for the LSST
Ved G. Shah, Alex Gagliano, Konstantin Malanchev +3
We present ORACLE, the first hierarchical deep-learning model for real-time, context-aware classification of transient and variable astrophysical phenomena. ORACLE is a recurrent n…
astro-ph.IM2025
The La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey
Adam A. Miller, Natasha S. Abrams, Greg Aldering +75
We present the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4), a new wide-field, time-domain survey to be conducted with the 1 m ESO Schmidt telescope. The 268 megapixel LS4 camera mosaics…