ANTARES: progress towards building a 'broker' of time-domain alerts

Abhijit Saha; Zhe Wang; Thomas Matheson; Gautham Narayan; Richard Snodgrass; John Kececioglu; Carlos Scheidegger; Tim Axelrod; Tim Jenness; Stephen Ridgway; Robert Seaman; Clark Taylor; Jackson Toeniskoetter; Eric Welch; Shuo Yang; Tayeb Zaidi

doi:10.1117/12.2232095

18 July 2016 ANTARES: progress towards building a 'broker' of time-domain alerts

Abhijit Saha, Zhe Wang, Thomas Matheson, Gautham Narayan, Richard Snodgrass, John Kececioglu, Carlos Scheidegger, Tim Axelrod, Tim Jenness, Stephen Ridgway, Robert Seaman, Clark Taylor, Jackson Toeniskoetter, Eric Welch, Shuo Yang, Tayeb Zaidi

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Proceedings Volume 9910, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI; 99100F (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232095
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

The Arizona-NOAO Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System (ANTARES) is a joint effort of NOAO and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Arizona to build prototype software to process alerts from time-domain surveys, especially LSST, to identify those alerts that must be followed up immediately. Value is added by annotating incoming alerts with existing information from previous surveys and compilations across the electromagnetic spectrum and from the history of past alerts. Comparison against a knowledge repository of properties and features of known or predicted kinds of variable phenomena is used for categorization. The architecture and algorithms being employed are described.

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Abhijit Saha, Zhe Wang, Thomas Matheson, Gautham Narayan, Richard Snodgrass, John Kececioglu, Carlos Scheidegger, Tim Axelrod, Tim Jenness, Stephen Ridgway, Robert Seaman, Clark Taylor, Jackson Toeniskoetter, Eric Welch, Shuo Yang, and Tayeb Zaidi "ANTARES: progress towards building a 'broker' of time-domain alerts", Proc. SPIE 9910, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VI, 99100F (18 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232095

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