DeepStreaks: identifying fast-moving objects in the Zwicky Transient Facility data with deep learning
Abstract
We present DeepStreaks, a convolutional-neural-network, deep-learning system designed to efficiently identify streaking fast-moving near-Earth objects that are detected in the data of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a wide-field, time-domain survey using a dedicated 47 deg2 camera attached to the Samuel Oschin 48-inch Telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States. The system demonstrates a 96-98% true positive rate, depending on the night, while keeping the false positive rate below 1%. The sensitivity of DeepStreaks is quantified by the performance on the test data sets as well as using known near-Earth objects observed by ZTF. The system is deployed and adapted for usage within the ZTF Solar-System framework and has significantly reduced human involvement in the streak identification process, from several hours to typically under 10 minutes per day.
Additional Information
© 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model) Accepted 2019 April 13. Received 2019 April 11; in original form 2019 February 25. D.A. Duev acknowledges support from the Heising-Simons Foundation under Grant No. 12540303. Q.-Z. Ye is supported by the GROWTH project funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1545949. Based on observations obtained with the Samuel Oschin Telescope 48-inch Telescope at the Palomar Observatory as part of the Zwicky Transient Facility project. Major funding has been provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1440341 and by the ZTF partner institutions: the California Institute of Technology, the Oskar Klein Centre, the Weizmann Institute of Science, the University of Maryland, the University of Washington, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the TANGO Program of the University System of Taiwan. AM acknowledges support from NSF (1640818 and AST-1815034).Attached Files
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- Eprint ID
- 95146
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20190501-152328124
- Heising-Simons Foundation
- 12540303
- NSF
- AST-1545949
- NSF
- AST-1440341
- ZTF partner institutions
- NSF
- OAC-1640818
- NSF
- AST-1815034
- Created
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2019-05-01Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), Zwicky Transient Facility, Astronomy Department