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Unsupervised machine learning for transient discovery in deeper, wider, faster light curves
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WoS WOS:000587752500002
Scopus SCOPUS_ID:85096854009
DOI 10.1093/MNRAS/STAA2395
Año 2020
Tipo artículo de investigación

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Autores Afiliación Chile

Instituciones Chile

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Abstract



Identification of anomalous light curves within time-domain surveys is often challenging. In addition, with the growing number of wide-field surveys and the volume of data produced exceeding astronomers' ability for manual evaluation, outlier and anomaly detection is becoming vital for transient science. We present an unsupervised method for transient discovery using a clustering technique and the ASTRONOMALY package. As proof of concept, we evaluate 85 553 min-cadenced light curves collected over two similar to 1.5 h periods as part of the Deeper, Wider, Faster program, using two different telescope dithering strategies. By combining the clustering technique HDBSCAN with the isolation forest anomaly detection algorithm via the visual interface of ASTRONOMALY, we are able to rapidly isolate anomalous sources for further analysis. We successfully recover the known variable sources, across a range of catalogues from within the fields, and find a further seven uncatalogued variables and two stellar flare events, including a rarely observed ultrafast flare (similar to 5min) from a likely M-dwarf.

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Ord. Autor Género Institución - País
1 Webb, Sara Mujer Swinburne Univ Technol - Australia
ARC Ctr Excellence Gravitat Wave Discovery OzGrav - Australia
Swinburne University of Technology - Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery - Australia
2 Lochner, Michelle Mujer Univ Western Cape - República de Sudáfrica
African Inst Math Sci - República de Sudáfrica
South African Radio Astron Observ - República de Sudáfrica
University of the Western Cape - República de Sudáfrica
African Institute of Mathematical Sciences - República de Sudáfrica
Observatory - República de Sudáfrica
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences - República de Sudáfrica
South African Radio Astronomical Observatory - República de Sudáfrica
3 Muthukrishna, D. Hombre UNIV CAMBRIDGE - Reino Unido
Institute of Astronomy - Reino Unido
4 Cooke, Jeff Hombre Swinburne Univ Technol - Australia
ARC Ctr Excellence Gravitat Wave Discovery OzGrav - Australia
Swinburne University of Technology - Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery - Australia
5 Flynn, Chris Hombre Swinburne Univ Technol - Australia
ARC Ctr Excellence Gravitat Wave Discovery OzGrav - Australia
Swinburne University of Technology - Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery - Australia
6 Mahabal, A. A. Hombre CALTECH - Estados Unidos
California Institute of Technology - Estados Unidos
California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science - Estados Unidos
7 Goode, Simon Hombre Swinburne Univ Technol - Australia
ARC Ctr Excellence Gravitat Wave Discovery OzGrav - Australia
Swinburne University of Technology - Australia
ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery - Australia
8 Andreoni, I. Hombre CALTECH - Estados Unidos
California Institute of Technology - Estados Unidos
California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science - Estados Unidos
9 Pritchard, Tyler Hombre NYU - Estados Unidos
The Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics - Estados Unidos
10 ABBOTT, TIMOTHY Hombre Observatorio Interamericano del Cerro Tololo - Chile
Cerro Tololo Inter American Observatory - Chile

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Financiamiento



Fuente
National Science Foundation
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. National Science Foundation
Ohio State University
National Research Foundation (NRF)
Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics at the Ohio State University
University of Portsmouth
University of Chicago
Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom
University of Michigan
Ministry of Science and Education of Spain
Higher Education Funding Council for England
National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago
Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas AM University
Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia e Inovacao
Argonne National Laboratory
University College London
University of Edinburgh
Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich
Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai (IEEC/CSIC)
Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
University of Nottingham
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
University of Sussex
Texas AM University
University of California at Santa Cruz
Stanford University
DES-Brazil Consortium
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Simons Foundation
University of Cambridge, Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas-Madrid
Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey
Kavli Foundation
UC Santa Cruz
Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
OzDES Membership Consortium the University of Pennsylvania
GROWTH (Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen) - National Science Foundation under PIRE
Fermi NationalAccelerator Laboratory

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r Based on observations at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
Based on observations at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.

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