ANTARES: Progress towards building a `Broker' of time-domain alerts
  The Arizona-NOAO Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System (ANTARES) is a joint effort of NOAO and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Arizona to build prototype software to process alerts from time-domain surveys, especially LSST, to identify those alerts that must be followed up immediately. Value is added by annotating incoming alerts with existing information from previous surveys and compilations across the electromagnetic spectrum and from the history of past alerts. Comparison against a knowledge repository of properties and features of known or predicted kinds of variable phenomena is used for categorization. The architecture and algorithms being employed are described. 
Abhijit Saha, Zhe Wang, Thomas Matheson, Gautham Narayan, Richard   Snodgrass, John Kececioglu, Carlos Scheidegger, Tim Axel...
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