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most citedThe Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-IR Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models

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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…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 15 cited

: An Accurate Photometric Classifier for Tidal Disruption Events

Robert Stein, Ashish Mahabal, Simeon Reusch +12

Optical surveys have become increasingly adept at identifying candidate Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) in large numbers, but classifying these generally requires extensive spectros…

astro-ph.IM2023

Using 4MOST to refine the measurement of galaxy properties: A case study of Supernova hosts

J. Dumayne, I. M. Hook, S. C. Williams +10

The Rubin Observatory's 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time will observe near to 20 billion galaxies. For each galaxy the properties can be inferred. Approximately galax…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 76 cited

How Many Kilonovae Can Be Found in Past, Present, and Future Survey Datasets?

D. Scolnic, R. Kessler, D. Brout +83

The discovery of a kilonova (KN) associated with the Advanced LIGO (aLIGO)/Virgo event GW170817 opens up new avenues of multi-messenger astrophysics. Here, using realistic simulati…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 227 cited

MOSFiT: Modular Open-Source Fitter for Transients

James Guillochon, Matt Nicholl, V. Ashley Villar +5

Much of the progress made in time-domain astronomy is accomplished by relating observational multi-wavelength time series data to models derived from our understanding of physical…

astro-ph.IM2017

Enabling New ALMA Science with Improved Support for Time-Domain Observations

Kate D. Alexander, Edo Berger, Geoff Bower +34

While the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a uniquely powerful telescope, its impact in certain fields of astrophysics has been limited by observatory policie…