Astronomaly: Personalised Active Anomaly Detection in Astronomical Data

Understand

Survey telescopes such as the Vera C.

• Rubin Observatory and the Square Kilometre Array will discover billions of static and dynamic astronomical sources.
• Properly mined, these enormous datasets will likely be wellsprings of rare or unknown astrophysical phenomena.
• The challenge is that the datasets are so large that most data will never be seen by human eyes; currently the most robust instrument we have to detect relevant anomalies.