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Query: Machine Learning-based Brokers for Real-time Classification of the LSST
  Alert Stream   The unprecedented volume and rate of transient events that will be discovered
by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) demands that the astronomical
community update its followup paradigm. Alert-brokers -- automated software
system to sift through, characterize, annotate and prioritize events for
followup -- will be critical tools for managing alert streams in the LSST era.
The Arizona-NOAO Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System (ANTARES) is
one such broker. In this work, we develop a machine learning pipeline to
characterize and classify variable and transient sources only using the
available multiband optical photometry. We describe three illustrative stages
of the pipeline, serving the three goals of early, intermediate and
retrospective classification of alerts. The first takes the form of variable vs
transient categorization, the second, a multi-class typing of the combined
variable and transient dataset, and the third, a purity-driven subtyping of a
transient class. While several similar algorithms have proven themselves in
simulations, we validate their performance on real observations for the first
time. We quantitatively evaluate our pipeline on sparse, unevenly sampled,
heteroskedastic data from various existing observational campaigns, and
demonstrate very competitive classification performance. We describe our
progress towards adapting the pipeline developed in this work into a real-time
broker working on live alert streams from time-domain surveys.

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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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