Every night, our robotic sentinels scan the cosmos, detecting the violent deaths of stars, the awakening of dormant black holes, and the explosive birth of new phenomena. Yet this treasure trove of transient discoveries has been scattered across different surveys and archives, making comprehensive studies frustratingly difficult. TarXiv emerges as astronomy’s answer to this fragmentation—a centralized repository that unifies transient data from major sky surveys like ZTF, ATLAS, and ASAS-SN with alerts from the Transient Name Server.
Built with Python and designed for both researchers and developers, TarXiv provides seamless API access to light curves and contextual information spanning supernovae, tidal disruption events, and cataclysmic variables. The platform eliminates the tedious work of compiling curated catalogs by hand, instead offering a unified search environment where astronomers can conduct large-scale archival studies across different types of explosive events. Following the open science philosophy of arXiv and building upon projects like the Open Supernova Catalogue, it ensures proper citation of original data creators while democratizing access to transient discoveries.
Integrated with the Astro-Colibri multi-messenger astronomy platform, TarXiv enables the kind of comprehensive transient science that modern astronomy demands. Whether you’re hunting for rare stellar explosions, studying population statistics, or developing machine learning models for transient classification, this toolkit transforms scattered observations into actionable astronomical insights.
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💻 Language: Python
🔗 Repository: tarxiv/tarxiv