ANTARES: a prototype transient broker system

Abhijit Saha; Thomas Matheson; Richard Snodgrass; John Kececioglu; Gautham Narayan; Robert Seaman; Tim Jenness; Tim Axelrod

doi:10.1117/12.2056988

28 July 2014 ANTARES: a prototype transient broker system

Abhijit Saha, Thomas Matheson, Richard Snodgrass, John Kececioglu, Gautham Narayan, Robert Seaman, Tim Jenness, Tim Axelrod

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Proceedings Volume 9149, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems V; 914908 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056988
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

The Arizona-NOAO Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System (ANTARES) is a joint project of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Arizona. The goal is to build the software infrastructure necessary to process and filter alerts produced by time-domain surveys, with the ultimate source of such alerts being the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). The ANTARES broker will add value to alerts by annotating them with information from external sources such as previous surveys from across the electromagnetic spectrum. In addition, the temporal history of annotated alerts will provide further annotation for analysis. These alerts will go through a cascade of filters to select interesting candidates. For the prototype, ‘interesting’ is defined as the rarest or most unusual alert, but future systems will accommodate multiple filtering goals. The system is designed to be flexible, allowing users to access the stream at multiple points throughout the process, and to insert custom filters where necessary. We describe the basic architecture of ANTARES and the principles that will guide development and implementation.

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Abhijit Saha, Thomas Matheson, Richard Snodgrass, John Kececioglu, Gautham Narayan, Robert Seaman, Tim Jenness, and Tim Axelrod "ANTARES: a prototype transient broker system", Proc. SPIE 9149, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems V, 914908 (28 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056988

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