DETECT: Real-Time Identification of Transients with DESI Spectroscopic Redshift

arXiv:2609.28951 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Terminology

• AGN — 20× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• National Science Foundation — 5× in this paper
• Transient Name Server — 5× in this paper
• Verification — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument — 3× in this paper
• Legacy Survey of Space and Time — 2× in this paper
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy — 1× in this paper
• Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System — 1× in this paper
• Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Forward modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Lulin One-meter Telescope — 1× in this paper
• NOIRLab and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — 1× in this paper
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys
• The K correction
• Data Release 1 of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
• A New Way to Discover Strong Gravitational Lenses: Pair-wise Spectroscopic Search from DESI DR1
• Overview of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES)
• The DESI Single Fiber Lens Search. I. Four Thousand Spectroscopically Selected Galaxy-Galaxy Gravitational Lens Candidates
• A New Forced Photometry Service for the Zwicky Transient Facility
• HOLISMOKES XIX: SN 2025wny at $z=2$, the first strongly lensed superluminous supernova

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