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Automated Transient Detection in the Context of the 4m ILMT

Kumar Pranshu
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, India and Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 700106, India. Corresponding author: pranshu@aries.res.in
Bhavya Ailawadhi
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, India and Department of Physics, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, 273009, India
Talat Akhunov
National University of Uzbekistan, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 100174 Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Astronomicheskaya 33, 100052 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Ermanno Borra
Department of Physics, Université Laval, 2325, rue de l’Université, Québec, G1V 0A6, Canada
Monalisa Dubey
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, India and Department of Applied Physics, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, 243006, India
Naveen Dukiya
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, India and Department of Applied Physics, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, 243006, India
Jiuyang Fu
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
Baldeep Grewal
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
Paul Hickson
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
Brajesh Kumar
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, India
Kuntal Misra
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, India
Vibhore Negi
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263001, India and Department of Physics, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, 273009, India
Ethen Sun
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
Jean Surdej
Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, University of Liège, Allée du 6 Août 19c, 4000 Liège, Belgium

Abstract

In the era of sky surveys like Palomar Transient Factory (PTF), Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the upcoming Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) and ILMT, a plethora of image data will be available. ZTF scans the sky with a field of view of 48 deg2 and VRO will have a FoV of 9.6 deg2 but with a much larger aperture. The 4m ILMT covers a 22′ wide strip of the sky. Being a zenith telescope, ILMT has several advantages like low observation air mass, best image quality, minimum light pollution and no pointing time loss. Transient detection requires all these imaging data to be processed through a Difference Imaging Algorithm (DIA) followed by subsequent identification and classification of transients. The ILMT is also expected to discover several known and unknown astrophysical objects including transients. Here, we propose a pipeline with an image subtraction algorithm and a convolutional neural network (CNN) based automated transient discovery and classification system. The pipeline was tested on ILMT data and the transients as well as variable candidates were recovered and classified.

Keywords : Difference Imaging Algorithm (DIA), Convolutional Neural network (CNN), real/bogus classifier

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Kumar Pranshu, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Talat Akhunov, Ermanno Borra, Monalisa Dubey, Naveen Dukiya, Jiuyang Fu, Baldeep Grewal, Paul Hickson, Brajesh Kumar, Kuntal Misra, Vibhore Negi, Ethen Sun & Jean Surdej, «Automated Transient Detection in the Context of the 4m ILMT», Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège [En ligne], Volume 93 - Année 2024, No 2 - Proceeedings of the 3rd BINA Workshop on the Scientific Potential of the Indo-Belgian Cooperation, 828-836 URL : https://popups.uliege.be/0037-9565/index.php?id=11895.