General Overview of Transient Classification Methods

[dhuppenkothen]

Here's an initial (very broad, quite cursory) list of mostly very recent literature in this domain, as a starting point. This is not comprehensive, so additions are welcome:

General Transient Classification

• http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ASPC..434..115M
• http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.200710957/full
• https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/457/3/3119/2588943/An-analysis-of-feature-relevance-in-the
• http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sam.11305/full
• http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X1500326X
• https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5b23/4b0285a87d2e3a1490d47d8d754b140a9b0e.pdf
• http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/786/1/20/meta
• Theory-driven predictions for light-curve parameter space explored in "Theoretical Models of Optical Transients. I. A Broad Exploration of the Duration-Luminosity Phase Space"; Villar, A., Berger, E., et al. 2017; http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017arXiv170708132V

Variable Stars

• http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/668468/meta
• http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/733/1/10/meta
• http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1384107616300331
• https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-42291-6_81
• "A Machine-learning Method to Infer Fundamental Stellar Parameters from Photometric Light Curves"; Miller, A., Bloom, J. et al. 2015; http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJ...798..122M

SNe

• http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7979846/#full-text-section
• http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/836/1/97/meta
• http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0067-0049/225/2/31/meta
• An open source SNIa light curve fitter for cosmological applications, "SNCOSMO", by Kyle Barbary: https://sncosmo.readthedocs.io/en/v1.5.x/
• Other SNIa LC fitters: e.g., SALT (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007A%26A...466...11G), MLCS (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ApJ...659..122J)

Related Fields

*https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.104059

• http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/34/3/034002/meta
• http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7729071/#full-text-section
• http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7833525/#full-text-section

My cursory reading is that there is a lot already out there on this topic, and it seems to me that perhaps the Berkeley group around Josh Bloom has done the most comprehensive development of a transient classification system so far.