Exploring the changing sky with the ALeRCE community broker
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Thursday 11th
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Exploring the changing sky with the ALeRCE community broker
The Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events (ALeRCE) is a Chilean-led astronomical alert broker that currently ingests the public stream from the Zwicky Transient Facility, which contains hundreds of thousands of alerts per night, providing classifications and visualization for the astronomical objects detected. In this talk I describe the ALeRCE project and its different science cases and tools, highlighting how it has enabled the follow-up and study of young supernovae and other transient objects. The advent of new surveys like the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, and soon the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time, opens a promising future for continuing the collaborative study of the changing universe.