ANTARES Postdoctoral Researcher Position

Attention time domain enthusiasts! The ANTARES project (Arizona-NOAO Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System) has an open position for a postdoctoral research associate at NOAO.

The goal of the ANTARES project is to develop a tool to rapidly identify interesting sources from imaging surveys that provide temporal sampling. We are building a prototype to identify the “rarest” time domain alerts from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). Because LSST will trigger tens of thousands of alerts per minute, and only a tiny fraction of these can be followed up by other facilities, it is critical to characterize alerts quickly and identify phenomena with high priority for follow up.

We are looking for someone with time-domain astronomy experience who wants to work with us to mine the biggest astronomical alert streams! The job ad provides further information about this position. Questions may be directed to Tom Matheson (matheson@noao.edu) and Abi Saha (saha@noao.edu)