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Candidate Catalogues and Multi-Exposure Cutouts for Flares and Moving Objects from Historical Chinese Astronomical Plates

Year: 2026

Type: dataset

Abstract: This dataset supports the manuscript “Novel Discoveries of Flares and Moving Objects from Historical Multi-Exposure Plates From Chinese Observatories using Machine Learning.”The release contains data products derived from 2,083 successfully processed historical multi-exposure photographic plates. It includesa catalogue of 393 ranked flare candidates, a catalogue of 2,308 unmatched moving-object candidates, associated astrometric, photometric, morphological, and catalogue cross-match measurements, and the available multi-exposure image cutouts. The catalogue entries are candidates rather than confirmed new transients or newly discovered Solar System objects. Residual plate defects, unmatched known Solar System objects, and artificial-satellite contamination may remain. Column definitions, units, selection criteria, and missing-value conventions are provided in the accompanying README.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22089215

Authors: Jia, Peng, Chang, Yadong, Li, Ying, Ma, Mingyang, Shang, Zhengjun, Yu, Yong, Yang, Meiting, Zhao, Jianhai, Ding, Zhenyang

Institutions: Taiyuan University of Technology, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Language: English

Topic: Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7204155017

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