no code implementations • 15 Dec 2021 • Daniel Muthukrishna, Kaisey S. Mandel, Michelle Lochner, Sara Webb, Gautham Narayan
Astronomical transients are stellar objects that become temporarily brighter on various timescales and have led to some of the most significant discoveries in cosmology and astronomy.
no code implementations • 29 Oct 2021 • Daniel Muthukrishna, Kaisey S. Mandel, Michelle Lochner, Sara Webb, Gautham Narayan
We demonstrate our methods' ability to provide anomaly scores as a function of time on light curves from the Zwicky Transient Facility.
1 code implementation • 11 Aug 2020 • Sara Webb, Michelle Lochner, Daniel Muthukrishna, Jeff Cooke, Chris Flynn, Ashish Mahabal, Simon Goode, Igor Andreoni, Tyler Pritchard, Timothy M. C. Abbott
We present an unsupervised method for transient discovery using a clustering technique and the Astronomaly package.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics