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The ALeRCE broker is a Chilean-led broker which is processing the alert stream from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and which aims to become a Community Broker for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), as well as other large etendue survey telescopes. We are using Cloud Infrastructure and Machine ...
The High cadence Transient Survey (HiTS) | ALeRCE
This experiment led us to form an interdisciplinary group focused on astroinformatics. It also made us realize the importance of processing large alert streams such as those produced by ZTF and LSST, leading to the creation of the ALeRCE broker.
Services | ALeRCE
ALeRCE client The ALeRCE client is a library to interact programmatically with the ALeRCE API. Read More
About us | ALeRCE
Alerce (Fitzroya cupressoides) is a tall, long-lived conifer native to southern Chile and Argentina. They are also known as lahuán (lawal in mapudungún), or Patagonian cypress. They can live up to 4000 yr and reach up to 60 m of height. Credit: Nick Hall photography
Jobs | ALeRCE
ALeRCE is composed of three teams: a team of engineers leading the infrastructure developments of the project, a team of machine learning experts leading the development of machine learning models, and a team of astronomers working on scientific use cases.
ZTF Explorer | ALeRCE
The ALeRCE explorer is the main tool to explore the astronomical objects recovered from the ZTF alert stream. It consists of two main sections: a search section and a results section.
ALeRCE ADASS 2022 tutorial
ALeRCE is an astronomical alert broker designed to provide a rapid and self-consistent classification of alerts coming from large etendue survey telescopes. It has been ingesting alerts from the Zwicky Transient Facility since 2019 and from …
ZTF Database API | ALeRCE
This service allows users to query the ALeRCE database tables without needing any authentication. This API includes services to query objects filtering them by id,number of detections, class, class probabilities, coordinates, or detection times.
SN Hunter | ALeRCE
The Supernovae Hunter platform allows users to visualize and explore the best and most recent SN candidates. These candidates are obtained using the convolutional neural network which powers the ALeRCE early classifier and can be seen in the SN Hunter only seconds after being received from ZTF.
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ALeRCE is a Chilean--led broker run by an interdisciplinary team of astronomers and engineers, working to become intermediaries between survey and follow--up facilities. ALeRCE uses a pipeline which includes the real--time ingestion, aggregation, cross--matching, machine learning (ML) classification, and visualization of the ZTF alert stream.