Transient Detection and Classification

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2008-01-09

arxiv.org/abs/0801.1503v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages. In Proceedings of Hot-wiring the Transient Universe (HTU) 2007. To be published in Astronomische Nachrichten, March 2

Scientific paper

10.1002/asna.200710937

I provide an incomplete inventory of the astronomical variability that will be found by next-generation time-domain astronomical surveys. These phenomena span the distance range from near-Earth satellites to the farthest Gamma Ray Bursts. The surveys that detect these transients will issue alerts to the greater astronomical community; this decision process must be extremely robust to avoid a slew of ``false'' alerts, and to maintain the community's trust in the surveys. I review the functionality required of both the surveys and the telescope networks that will be following them up, and the role of VOEvents in this process. Finally, I offer some ideas about object and event classification, which will be explored more thoroughly by other articles in these proceedings.

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