arxivastro-ph.IMastro-ph.HEcs.LG2026-06-30
Leveraging Multimodality for Real-Time Classification of Transients and Variables found by the Zwicky Transient Facility
Ved G. Shah, Nabeel Rehemtulla, Adam A. Miller, Sushant Sharma Chaudhary, Michael W. Coughlin, Antoine Le Calloch, et al.
Modern time-domain surveys such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) generate hundreds of thousands of alerts each night, making real-time decisions for follow-up observations a central challenge in time-domain astronomy. Robust early classification is crucial for making inform…