Smart obervation method with wide field small aperture telescopes for real time transient detection

Jia Peng; Qiang Liu; Yongyang Sun; Yitian Zheng; Wenbo Liu; Yifei Zhao

doi:10.1117/12.2560123

13 December 2020 Smart obervation method with wide field small aperture telescopes for real time transient detection

Jia Peng, Qiang Liu, Yongyang Sun, Yitian Zheng, Wenbo Liu, Yifei Zhao

Proceedings Volume 11449, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VIII; 114491Y (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560123
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

Wide field small aperture telescopes (WFSATs) are commonly used for fast sky survey. Telescope arrays composed by several WFSATs are capable to scan sky several times per night. Huge amount of data would be obtained by them and these data need to be processed immediately. In this paper, we propose ARGUS (Astronomical taRGets detection framework for Unified telescopes) for real-time transit detection. The ARGUS uses a deep learning based astronomical detection algorithm implemented in embedded devices in each WFSATs to detect astronomical targets. The position and probability of a detection being an astronomical targets will be sent to a trained ensemble learning algorithm to output information of celestial sources. After matching these sources with star catalog, ARGUS will directly output type and positions of transient candidates. We use simulated data to test the performance of ARGUS and find that ARGUS can increase the performance of WFSATs in transient detection tasks robustly.

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Jia Peng, Qiang Liu, Yongyang Sun, Yitian Zheng, Wenbo Liu, and Yifei Zhao "Smart obervation method with wide field small aperture telescopes for real time transient detection", Proc. SPIE 11449, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VIII, 114491Y (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560123

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