Euclid: an automated system to match Rubin transient alerts to Euclid observations
: Duffy, C.; Hook, I. M.; Gutierrez, C. M.; Paterson, K.; Petrecca, V; Moriya, T. J.; Poidevin, F.; Kotak, R.; Altieri, B.; Amara, A.; Andreon, S.; Auricchio, N.; Baccigalupi, C.; Baldi, M.; Balestra, A.; Bardelli, S.; Battaglia, P.; Biviano, A.; Branchini, E.; Brescia, M.; Camera, S.; Canas-Herrera, G.; Capobianco, V; Carbone, C.; Carretero, J.; Casas, S.; Castellano, M.; Castignani, G.; Cavuoti, S.; Chambers, K. C.; Cimatti, A.; Colodro-Conde, C.; Congedo, G.; Conselice, C. J.; Conversi, L.; Copin, Y.; Courbin, F.; Courtois, H. M.; Cropper, M.; Cuillandre, J. -c; Degaudenzi, H.; De lucia, G.; Dole, H.; Dubath, F.; Dupac, X.; Dusini, S.; Escoffier, S.; Farina, M.; Farinelli, R.; Ferriol, S.; Frailis, M.; Franceschi, E.; Fumana, M.; Galeotta, S.; George, K.; Gillard, W.; Gillis, B.; Giocoli, C.; Gracia-Carpio, J.; Grazian, A.; Grupp, F.; Haugan, S. V. H.; Holliman, M. S.; Holmes, W.; Hormuth, F.; Hornstrup, A.; Jahnke, K.; Jhabvala, M.; Kermiche, S.; Kiessling, A.; Kohley, R.; Kubik, B.; Kunz, M.; Kurki-Suonio, H.; Le brun, A. M. C.; Ligori, S.; Lilje, P. B.; Lindholm, V; Lloro, I; Mainetti, G.; Maino, D.; Maiorano, E.; Mansutti, O.; Marcin, S.; Marggraf, O.; Martinelli, M.; Martinet, N.; Marulli, F.; Massey, R. J.; Medinaceli, E.; Mei, S.; Mellier, Y.; Meneghetti, M.; Merlin, E.; Meylan, G.; Mora, A.; Moresco, M.; Moscardini, L.; Nakajima, R.; Neissner, C.; Niemi, S. -m; Padilla, C.; Paltani, S.; Pasian, F.; Pedersen, K.; Pettorino, V; Pires, S.; Polenta, G.; Poncet, M.; Popa, L. A.; Raison, F.; Renzi, A.; Rhodes, J.; Riccio, G.; Romelli, E.; Roncarelli, M.; Rosset, C.; Saglia, R.; Sakr, Z.; Sapone, D.; Sartoris, B.; Schirmer, M.; Schneider, P.; Secroun, A.; Seidel, G.; Serrano, S.; Sihvola, E.; Simon, P.; Sirignano, C.; Sirri, G.; Skottfelt, J.; Stanco, L.; Steinwagner, J.; Tallada-Crespi, P.; Taylor, A. N.; Tereno, I; Tessore, N.; Toft, S.; Toledo-Moreo, R.; Torradeflot, F.; Tutusaus, I; Valenziano, L.; Valiviita, J.; Vassallo, T.; Wang, Y.; Weller, J.; Zamorani, G.; Zucca, E.; Garcia-Bellido, J.; Jullo, E.; Martin-Fleitas, J.; Nucita, A. A.; Scottez, V
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
: 2026
RAS Techniques and Instruments
: rzag014
: 5
: 2752-8200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/rasti/rzag014
: https://doi.org/10.1093/rasti/rzag014
: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/523329450
The Vera C. Rubin observatory is expected to produce 10 million transient alerts per night in ugrizy filters, whilst Euclid is a visible to near-infrared space telescope engaged in a wide field survey. We present a prototype system to automatically match the transient alerts from Rubin to Euclid observations. The system produces joint light curves containing both visible and near-infrared photometry, and joint image cutouts. Using Zwicky Transient Facility alerts as a proxy for Rubin, we demonstrate the system in use in cases where Euclid did and did not detect the transient and highlight the value that can be added in each case. For transients detected by Euclid these benefits include identifying the supernovae (SNe) in observations taken prior to ground-based detection, thereby better constraining the explosion time, such as SN 2024pvw detected
prior to ground based detections. In cases where Euclid did not detect the transient, we demonstrate the benefit of adding Euclid observations to improve host morphology measurements and associations.
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The authors acknowledge the Euclid Consortium, the European Space Agency, and a number of agencies and institutes that have supported the development of Euclid, in particular the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, the Austrian Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft funded through BMIMI, the Belgian Science Policy, the Canadian Euclid Consortium, the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, the DTU Space and the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark, the French Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the Netherlandse Onderzoekschool Voor Astronomie, the Norwegian Space Agency, the Research Council of Finland, the Romanian Space Agency, the State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation (SERI) at the Swiss Space Office (SSO), and the United Kingdom Space Agency. A complete and detailed list is available on the Euclid web site (www.euclid-ec.org).
This work has made use of the Euclid Quick Release Q1 data from the Euclid mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), 2025, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-2853f3b.
This work was funded by UKRI grant ST/Y005511/1. For the purpose of open access, the authors have applied a creative commons attribution (CC BY) licence to any author accepted manuscript version arising.
