Using Optical Aberrations to Distinguish Real Astronomical Transients
A new research paper by Ivo Busko explores the use of optical aberrations in archival photographic plates to distinguish between real astronomical transients and plate artifacts. The study provides a methodology for improving the accuracy of historical astronomical data analysis.
Why it matters
This research is vital for astronomers utilizing historical data to identify transient celestial events, enhancing the reliability of long-term space observations.
Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Ivo Busko [ view email ] [v1] Sat, 6 Jun 2026 20:16:51 UTC (9,904 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Fast Astronomical Transients in Archival Photographic Plates: Using optical aberrations as a tool for discerning real images, from plate artifacts, by Ivo Busko View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: astro-ph.IM < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-06 Change to browse by: astro-ph References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) IArxiv recommender toggle IArxiv Recommender ( What is IArxiv? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website.
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