The ANTARES Time-Domain Event Broker

A team of scientists and engineers at NOIRLab’s Community Science and Data Center, along with researchers in the University of Arizona’s Department of Computer Science, have been developing a software system to process and filter time-domain alerts. These tools are typically referred to as brokers as they sit between the producers of alerts and the consumers, while adding value. Our broker is the Arizona-NOIRLab Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System (ANTARES). We released v1.0 of ANTARES in June 2020, and it is currently processing the public portion of the ZTF alert stream. Access to the system and instructions for use can be found on the ANTARES website