Alert Classification for the ALeRCE Broker System: The Anomaly Detector

Astronomical broker systems, such as Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events (ALeRCE), are currently analyzing hundreds of thousands of alerts per night, opening up an opportunity to automatically detect anomalous unknown sources. In this work, we present the ALeRCE anomaly detecto...

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Main Authors: Manuel Perez-Carrasco, Guillermo Cabrera-Vives, Lorena Hernandez-García, F. Förster, Paula Sanchez-Saez, Alejandra M. Muñoz Arancibia, Javier Arredondo, Nicolás Astorga, Franz E. Bauer, Amelia Bayo, M. Catelan, Raya Dastidar, P. A. Estévez, Paulina Lira, Giuliano Pignata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astronomical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ace0c1