Machine learning in astronomy: A practical overview

D Baron - arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.07248, 2019 - arxiv.org
Astronomy is experiencing a rapid growth in data size and complexity. This change fosters
the development of data-driven science as a useful companion to the common model-driven …

Unveiling the Universe with emerging cosmological probes

M Moresco, L Amati, L Amendola, S Birrer… - Living Reviews in …, 2022 - Springer
The detection of the accelerated expansion of the Universe has been one of the major
breakthroughs in modern cosmology. Several cosmological probes (Cosmic Microwave …

The zwicky transient facility: science objectives

MJ Graham, SR Kulkarni, EC Bellm… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public–private enterprise, is a new time-
domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope …

SuperNNova: an open-source framework for Bayesian, neural network-based supernova classification

A Möller, T de Boissière - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We introduce SuperNNova, an open-source supernova photometric classification framework
that leverages recent advances in deep neural networks. Our core algorithm is a recurrent …

RAPID: early classification of explosive transients using deep learning

D Muthukrishna, G Narayan, KS Mandel… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present Real-time Automated Photometric IDentification (RAPID), a novel time
series classification tool capable of automatically identifying transients from within a day of …

Galaxy Zoo: probabilistic morphology through Bayesian CNNs and active learning

M Walmsley, L Smith, C Lintott, Y Gal… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We use Bayesian convolutional neural networks and a novel generative model of Galaxy
Zoo volunteer responses to infer posteriors for the visual morphology of galaxies. Bayesian …

Avocado: Photometric classification of astronomical transients with gaussian process augmentation

K Boone - The Astronomical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Upcoming astronomical surveys such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will
rely on photometric classification to identify the majority of the transients and variables that …

fink, a new generation of broker for the LSST community

A Möller, J Peloton, EEO Ishida… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT fink is a broker designed to enable science with large time-domain alert streams
such as the one from the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and …

Models and simulations for the photometric LSST astronomical time series classification challenge (PLAsTiCC)

R Kessler, G Narayan, A Avelino… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the simulated data sample for the Photometric Large Synoptic Survey
Telescope (LSST) Astronomical Time Series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC), a …

Machine learning for the zwicky transient facility

A Mahabal, U Rebbapragada, R Walters… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Zwicky Transient Facility is a large optical survey in multiple filters producing
hundreds of thousands of transient alerts per night. We describe here various machine …