Flashes in a Star Stream: Automated Classification of Astronomical Transient Events

Flashes in a Star Stream: Automated Classification of Astronomical Transient Events. Djorgovski, S. G., Mahabal, A. A., Donalek, C., Graham, M. J., Drake, A. J., Moghaddam, B., & Turmon, M. ArXiv e-prints, 1209:arXiv:1209.1681, September, 2012.

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An automated, rapid classification of transient events detected in the modern synoptic sky surveys is essential for their scientific utility and effective follow-up using scarce resources. This presents some unusual challenges: the data are sparse, heterogeneous and incomplete; evolving in time; and most of the relevant information comes not from the data stream itself, but from a variety of archival data and contextual information (spatial, temporal, and multi-wavelength). We are exploring a variety of novel techniques, mostly Bayesian, to respond to these challenges, using the ongoing CRTS sky survey as a testbed. The current surveys are already overwhelming our ability to effectively follow all of the potentially interesting events, and these challenges will grow by orders of magnitude over the next decade as the more ambitious sky surveys get under way. While we focus on an application in a specific domain (astrophysics), these challenges are more broadly relevant for event or anomaly detection and knowledge discovery in massive data streams.

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	title = {Flashes in a {Star} {Stream}: {Automated} {Classification} of {Astronomical} {Transient} {Events}},
	volume = {1209},
	shorttitle = {Flashes in a {Star} {Stream}},
	url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012arXiv1209.1681D},
	abstract = {An automated, rapid classification of transient events detected in the 
modern synoptic sky surveys is essential for their scientific utility
and effective follow-up using scarce resources. This presents some
unusual challenges: the data are sparse, heterogeneous and incomplete;
evolving in time; and most of the relevant information comes not from
the data stream itself, but from a variety of archival data and
contextual information (spatial, temporal, and multi-wavelength). We are
exploring a variety of novel techniques, mostly Bayesian, to respond to
these challenges, using the ongoing CRTS sky survey as a testbed. The
current surveys are already overwhelming our ability to effectively
follow all of the potentially interesting events, and these challenges
will grow by orders of magnitude over the next decade as the more
ambitious sky surveys get under way. While we focus on an application in
a specific domain (astrophysics), these challenges are more broadly
relevant for event or anomaly detection and knowledge discovery in
massive data streams.},
	urldate = {2018-06-25},
	journal = {ArXiv e-prints},
	author = {Djorgovski, S. G. and Mahabal, A. A. and Donalek, C. and Graham, M. J. and Drake, A. J. and Moghaddam, B. and Turmon, M.},
	month = sep,
	year = {2012},
	keywords = {Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics},
	pages = {arXiv:1209.1681},
}

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