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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
Miller said his team recently informed the international astronomical community of its success with the new AI system.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
The tool is called the Bright Transient Survey Bot, or BTSbot.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
The robot was used to find, identify and classify a supernova for the first time, Miller said.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
He noted that researchers had spent more than 2,000 hours over the past six years looking at telescope data in order to find and classify supernova
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
“For the first time ever, a series of robots and AI algorithms has observed, then identified, then communicated with another telescope to finally confirm the
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
discovery of a supernova,” Miller said. The researchers say the new system can take over much of the work humans now do looking for and classifying supernovas.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
This can free up scientists to do more in-depth examinations of the supernovas themselves and the reasons they were created.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
In order to confirm a supernova, scientists have to examine its spectrum.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
The spectrum represents the object’s dispersed light, which shows elements that were present during the explosion of a supernova.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
The study of supernovas has high scientific value because it can help astronomers learn more about the universe and how it began.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
For example, NASA says scientists have learned a lot about the behaviors and chemical processes of stars from supernovas.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
Miller said the new tool can help researchers analyze their observations and develop new hypotheses to explain why the supernova explosions happened.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
Nabeel Rehemtulla co-led the research and development of the BTSbot. He said the tool greatly “streamlines large studies of supernovas.”
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
This helps scientists better understand the life cycles of stars and helps to identify elements supernovas create, such as carbon, iron and gold,
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
The research team said testing of the BTSbot involved looking at a newly discovered supernova candidate called SN2023tyk.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
The AI tool identified the supernova on October 5.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
After the identification, the BTSbot requested additional data on its own from the California-based Palomar Observatory.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
Then, another telescope, known as the SED Machine, performed its own “in-depth observations” to get information on the object’s spectrum.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
The SED Machine then sent the spectrum data to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
Caltech uses an AI algorithm to classify the kind of supernova.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
This can either be a thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf or the collapse of a star’s center, or core.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
The algorithm classified the supernova a Type 1a, a kind of star explosion in which a white dwarf in a star system fully explodes.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
Rehemtulla said the success of the BTSbot will ease supernova identifications, while freeing up human scientists to do more detailed study of the newly
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
discovered objects. “The beauty of it is that, once everything is turned on and working properly, we don’t actually do anything,” Rehemtulla noted.
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Researchers Build First AI Tool to Discover Supernovas
“We go to sleep at night, and, in the morning, we see that BTSbot, and these other AIs, unwaveringly do their jobs.” I’m Bryan Lynn.
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