Bots
Name Active Survey name Affiliation Owner(s) Remarks URL Groups
ALeRCE Y ZTF fforster Young SN candidates in ZTF classified by ALeRCE http://alerce.science/
ALERT_WSRT_bot Y ALERT ASTRON / University of Amsterdam ebpetroff Bot for uploading fast radio burst (FRB) events detected by the ALERT survey on the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope ALERT
alkan Y NLP Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN alkan Following candidates and classified supernova.
Alto2000_Bot Y Alto2000 Alto2000_BOT
alt_bot1 Y alt survey zipei
ANTARES_bot Y ZTF NSF's NOIRLab lee Bot for ANTARES time-domain event broker antares.noirlab.edu
ASASSN_Bot1 Y ASAS-SN OSU dongsubo, brojonat ASAS-SN survey machine http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~assassin/index.shtml ASAS-SN
Astro-COLIBRI Y Astro-COLIBRI IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay fabian.schussler@cea.fr Visualisation and overview of transient activity https://astro-colibri.com
Astroauto Y Astroauto zklin
Atlas_Bot Y Atlas Survey atlas850
ATLAS_Bot1 Y ATLAS QUB ksmith ATLAS Survey machine
AUFLOWS_BOT Y AUFLOWS Aarhus University, Department of Physics and Astronomy emirk This bot is for TNS queries of recently classified SNe for the purpose of obtaining followup observations as part of the Aarhus University supernova group, under the FLOWS project. It is not expected to make reports or bulk uploads.
AutoPhOT_Bot Y AutoPhOT University College Dublin StellarPotato TNS query bot for AutoPhOT
Avon Y Fast & Fortunate FRB Follow-up Northwestern University yuxindong TNS Query for optical transients near FRBs
BHTOM_Bot Y BHTom University of Warsaw mjablonska, lukasz https://bhtom.space OGLE
BillyShears Y PEPPER University of Sheffield g-hume Bot to pull updates from the TNS database for use in follow-up observations.
BlackGEM_Bot1 Y BlackGEM Radboud University nblago, pgroot, htranin http://blackgem.org/
bot_BC Y ST beichuan
Brallo_Bot Y GB Survey osservatorio GB
BraTS_bot Y BraTS BraTS cjacqueslf Brazilian Transient Survey machine BraTS
BTDG_Bot Y BTDG Harvard University sgomez, griffin
cfroTiDES Y TiDES University of Southampton ChrisFro Bot for TiDES interacting with TNS
CHIME_FRB_bot Y CHIMEFRB andrewzwaniga, tabbott, ebpetroff CHIMEFRB is a real-time search engine that processes data from the CHIME Telescope to search for signatures of Fast Radio Bursts. https://chime-experiment.ca CHIMEFRB
CIERA_Bot Y ZTF CIERA - Northwestern University stroh TNS queries for Northwestern University
CNEOST_bot1 Y PTSS PMO binli http://www.cneost.org/ptss/
CRAFT_bot Y CRAFT CRAFT NickSwainston CRAFT
CRTS_bot N CRTS Caltech ajd http://crts.caltech.edu/ CRTS
CSM_bot Y CSM interacting SNe umuzigazuba
dafhbot Y ATLAS DARK dafh
DB_bot1 Y DECam Base Supernova Survey djbrout
DEHVILS_Bot1 Y DEHVILS Duke University erikpeterson23
DESGW_Bot Y DESGW Fermilab tgbachmann, smithm, kherner GW candidate/known transient comparison bot. DESGW
DESIRT_Bot Y DECam Survey for Intermediate Redshift Transients Carnegie Mellon U. palmese, lifanwang, arcatala
DLT40_bot1 Y DLT40 UC Davis valenti, dsand DLT40 Survey machine DLT40
DSA-110 Y DSA-110 Caltech caseyjlaw Deep Synoptic Array at OVRO, California, USA https://www.deepsynoptic.org/
ENID Y ZTF ePESSTO+, Technical University of Denmark odp
ePESSTOplus_Bot1 Y ePESSTO+ WIS/QUB oyaron, David Young, ksmith ePESSTO+
ePESSTO_Bot1 Y ePESSTO WIS/QUB oyaron, David Young, ksmith ePESSTO survey machine ePESSTO
eRO_transient Y eROSITA MPE amalyali
Fink Y ZTF CNRS JulienPeloton, anaismoller, emilleishida Early SN candidates in the ZTF public alert stream classified by Fink https://fink-broker.org/
FLOWS Y FLOWS jdl
FRBCAT_bot Y FRBCAT FRBCAT website ebpetroff https://www.frbcat.org
FRB_followup Y KM3NeT-Astro KM3NeT_Astro, VincentC_KM3NeT
Fritz Y ZTF dmitryduev ZTF
fukaya Y Transient group fukaya
Gaia_Bot1 Y Gaia Cambridge, UK simonhodgkin, malvl, yoldas Gaia survey machine http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts GaiaAlerts
Gattini_Bot Y Palomar Gattini-IR Caltech kde Palomar Gattini-IR NIR survey Gattini
GA_Bot Y GA_xhu Leiden Observatory XueyangHu Study the most recent transients discovered by Gaia Survey
GBot Y Ic-BlSearch gcorcoran Intend on using to download all the available SNe Ic-BL spectra.
GOTO_bot Y GOTO GOTO jdl, mkennedy Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer https://goto-observatory.org/ GOTO
gpPy_bot Y IMSNG Seoul National University gregorypaek94 IMSNG
GRANDMA_bot Y GRANDMA grandmacollab
GW-MMADS_bot Y DECam iandreoni, palmese, oconnorb10 GW-MMADS
Hermes_bot Y Hermes LCO Hermes, jchatelain hermes.lco.global
HETH_bot Y HETH IAA-CSIC deugarte HETH
HH_bot Y IMSNG hhchoi1022
host_finder Y SN Blake Purse Retrieves data about host galaxies.
Host_galaxy_bot Y Transient Host Galaxy Caltech qinyjastro0 Access newly reported transients on TNS, identify host galaxies, and compile their physical properties.
HSC_Bot Y HSC NAOJ moriyatk Transient survey with Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam HSC
IACBot Y IAC IAC camilojimenez
ICESN Y ICESN Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) lgalbany ALeRCE, ePESSTO+, NUTS, POISE, SIRAH
IMSNG_bot Y IMSNG Seoul National University changsu Intense Monitoring Survey of Nearby Galaxies (IMSNG) http://imsng.snu.ac.kr/
INTEGRAL_bot Y INTEGRAL ISDC volodymyrs https://www.isdc.unige.ch/integral/
iPTF_Bot1 Y iPTF Caltech ycao, mansi, nblago iPTF survey machine iPTF
Irura Nyiha Y Lasair Irura_Nyiha
JADES_bot Y JADES Christa DeCoursey
JHI-bot Y JHI Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, UCLan astropom
joeljo Y joels_bot joeljo
Jon Swift Y Thacher Observatory Supernova Search Thacher School Jon Swift https://www.thacherobservatory.org/
KAD_Bot Y TESS TS@ST kdalrym1 TNS queries for TESS observations.
Kathan Y Supernovae Kathan_26
kinder_bot Y Kinder OKC, Stockholm saberyoung Kinder
kstars Y kstars daily download Kstars Desktop Planetarium zworkb This bot will be used for a daily update for transient astronomical data https://apps.kde.org/de/kstars/
KW_bot Y KW_bot Ioffe Institute Anna Ridnaia A bot for retrieving data for Konus-Wind team
Lacey Y ZTF CNRS Juliette Vlieghe Used to retrieve data only.
LasairTest_bot2 Y Lasair QUB, ROE ksmith This is a test bot for use in a tutorial. It will be destroyed once the tutorial is over. Lasair
Lasair_bot Y Lasair QUB, ROE ksmith, roywilliams, David Young A bot for retrieving data for Lasair
LAST_Bot1 Y LAST WIS oyaron LAST
LePleiadi_Bot Y Pantane Survey nderio
LOSS Y Lick Observatory Supernova Search UC Berkeley benstahl92
LSM_bot Y LSST Boston University lmercadante
LSQ_Bot1 Y LSQ Yale University David Young LSQ survey machine http://hep.yale.edu/lasillaquest
LT_bot Y ZTF kryanhinds
MAGIC_Bot Y MAGIC INFN aberti Bot for queries for the MAGIC telescopes.
Makrygianni_bot Y Lasair Tel Aviv University lydiam
MARVIN Y None Thomas.Moore TNS query bot
massartu Y ZTF mjgraham
MASTER Y MASTER MASTER Global Robotic Net lipunov http://observ.pereplet.ru MASTER
matchmaker Y matchmaker macrocosme
MCD_bot Y MCD-TS MCD Observatory MCD Observatory MCD Survey Machine and Querying TNS
MeerLICHT_Bot1 Y MeerLICHT Radboud University nblago http://www.meerlicht.org MeerLICHT
MLBG_bot Y MLBG bartscheers
MOP_Bot Y MOP Las Cumbres Observatory kkruszynska Check TNS to remove non-microlensing targets https://mop.lco.global/
murphy_bot Y murphy_archival michaelmurphy
musal Y MUSE Alerts jdl
Name and Redshift Retriever Y STScI Transient Group STScI srest2021 Get object name and redshift for list of transients
Naomi Fissehaye Y LAMAT UCSC nfissehaye
Nico_Bot Y Nico Survey nicola.stancampiano
OAPA_bot Y INAF-OAPa surveys INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo inaf-oapa
OGLE_bot Y OGLE University of Warsaw kgregorowicz
OGLE_Bot1 Y OGLE Warsaw lukasz OGLE
OKC_Bot Y OKC-ZTF Stockholm University sschulze, jesper, rlunnan
OMATC_Bot Y OMATC Universidad Diego Portales Hueichapan
OSC Retriever Y Open Supernova Catalog Harvard guillochon Retrieve data for OSC https://sne.space
otterbot Y OTTER University of Arizona nfranz
Padova-Asiago Y Asiago INAF -OAPD enrico.cappellaro https://sngroup.oapd.inaf.it Padova-Asiago
panos_charalampopoulos Y Lasair University of Turku panos_charalampopoulos ePESSTO+
PEPPER_Bot Y PEPPER LJMU, University of Warwick, University of Sheffield, The Liverpool Telescope blancmatter PEPPER: Polarimetric transient followup programme on the Liverpool Robotic Telescope
PESSTO_Bot1 Y PESSTO WIS/QUB David Young, ksmith, oyaron PESSTO survey machine
Peter Brown Y SOUSA Texas A&M peterjbrown Currently wanting to use the API so my students can update our SN database more efficiently. May contribute data in the future.
PGAO_Bot1 Y Global Supernova Search Team (GSNST) Prince George Astronomical Observatory malhar1994, GSNST PGAO Survey Machine GSNST
PIKA_Bot Y PIKA Crni Vrh observatory, Slovenia bdinti TNS queries for Crni Vrh observatory http://www.observatorij.org/ PIKA
PITT-Bot Y SDSSV-SNProgenitors University of Pittsburgh badenes
POISE_bot Y POISE cburns2112
PS1_Bot1 Y Pan-STARRS1 QUB David Young, ksmith Pan-STARRS1 survey machine Pan-STARRS
PS2_Bot1 Y Pan-STARRS2 QUB ksmith, David Young Pan-STARRS2 survey machine Pan-STARRS
PSUBOT Y YSE PSU vav5084 Used for data queries only.
PS_YSE_Bot1 Y Pan-STARRS Young Supernova Experiment QUB, UCSC ksmith, davidjones Bot for the Pan-STARRS Young Supernova Experiment Pan-STARRS
PurdueQueryBot Y PURDUE Purdue University mikeagrillo
REFITT_BOT Y REFITT kweil, dmilisavljevic REFITT
Ricerca_Bot Y OmegaGroup robermus, salmas@inwind.it Automated Supernova Search via Robotic Telescopes. http://www.omegalab-atc.com RTSG
SAGUARO_Bot1 Y SAGUARO University of Arizona/Steward Observatory mlundquist, griffin SAGUARO
SASSy Y Steward Alerts for Science System Steward Observatory phil_daly The Steward Alerts for Science System (SASSy) provides access to various alerts and cross-correlation with catalogs. We ingest ZTF data and support GLADE+, GWGC, MillionQuasar and TNS catalogs. https://sassy.as.arizona.edu/sassy
SCAT_Bot1 Y SCAT University of Hawaii ado SCAT
SCiMMA_bot Y scimma SCiMMA myNameIsPatrick https://scimma.org/
SGLF_bot1 Y SGLF Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias ipf, raphaelshirley, FREDERICK POIDEVIN
SheffPol Y PEPPER_long University of Sheffield, LJMU, Lancaster jmaund
ShefQuery Y ShefQuery University of Sheffield ufburhanudin TNS queries for University of Sheffield
SIRAH_Bot Y SIRAH Rutgers mdai SIRAH
skyportal Y ZTF public UC Berkeley jsbloom1
SLSNe Y ATLAS, ZTF University of Birmingham dryczanowski Search for candidate lensed supernovae by looking for supernovae near galaxy clusters
SmartKanata_bot Y SmartKanata Hiroshima University uemura Machine for the smart decision making for the follow-up observations of galactic transients.
smt_bot Y SkyMapper ANU anaismoller, btucker, patrickA SkyMapper survey machine.
SNAD_bot Y SNAD malanchev, emilleishida http://snad.space SNAD
SNEx_Bot1 Y LCOGT SN Key Project LCOGT iair http://supernova.exchange LCOGT SN-KP
snphot_bot Y FLOWS/snphot Aarhus University emirk Bot for querying basic transient metadata for use in SN photometric analysis using FLOWS/snphot.
SRT Y LILIO Parco Astronomico Lilio abrosio www.astrosavelli.it
star1 Y ZTF University of Sheffield peles1
stardestroyer_bot Y stardestroyer TAU cylammarco
STAR_bot Y star_bot Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Meghna Dixit
Swift_SOT Y Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Penn State jak574 BOT for API queries from the NASA Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory TOO API
TAU transient Y StarDestroyers Tel Aviv University M51
TAU_NUC Y TAU Nuclear Transients Tel Aviv University benny.trakht
TCD_search Y TCD_search Trinity College Dublin Simon Prentice, katemaguire TCD
TDEpy_BOT Y TDEpy Muryel Guolo Pereira
TDE_BOT Y YSE-PZ majoburo
tess1 Y TESS MIT mmfausnaugh https://tess.mit.edu/observations/
TLKbot Y GOTO University of Warwick tkillestein Query-only TNS bot facilitating real-time scientific discovery, powering contextual classification, and aggregating the transient Universe.
TNS_API Y TNS agagliano Created for bulk download of supernova spectra.
TNS_API Y None temuller-bravo
TNS_query N Transient_query Harvard University harshkumar13
toaster bot Y toaster bot dennislee
TOM_BOT Y TOM LCO jchatelain Hermes_group
TSST_bot1 Y transient monitor STScI rosteen Bot to pull daily TNS CSV file to monitor for serendipitous observations.
UCO-archive Y UCO Archive UCO bradpholden
UCSCTr_Bot1 Y UCSC Transient Team UC Santa Cruz cesar.rojasbravo UCSC
UCSC_blast Y UCSC Transient Team UC Santa Cruz petermcgill94
UCSC_bot Y UCSC Transient Team UC Santa Cruz Kirsty Taggart UCSC
UCSC_GW_Bot Y 1M2H UC Santa Cruz davecoulter
UKSSDC_bot Y UKSSDC U. Leicester PhilEvans BOT to support various UKSSDC services and TNS integration. https://www.swift.ac.uk
ULTRASAT_Bot1 Y ULTRASAT WIS oyaron ULTRASAT
UTMOST_FRB_bot Y UTMOST Swinburne University of Technology vivekgupta UTMOST
VAST Search Bot Y VAST University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee marxide Searches for cross-matches from the Variable and Slow Transients survey with the ASKAP radio telescope. https://vast-survey.org
VAST transients Y VAST University of Wisconsin Milwaukee aakash
VAST_FRB Y VAST UW Milwaukee kaplan
VAST_TDE Y VAST University of Toronto hannahdykaar
WFST_TDE_Bot Y WFST USTC ZheyuLin
WiFeS_Bot Y WiFeS ANU hja
WISeREP_Bot Y WISeREP oyaron Bot for WISeREP connectivity
WIS_Bot1 Y WIS testing WIS oyaron, nikola A Bot for internal testings CHIMEFRB, ePESSTO, ePESSTO+, iPTF, PESSTO, ZTF
WOTS Y Western Optical Sky Survey GSNST GSNST
YSE_Bot1 Y Young Supernova Experiment UCSC, QUB ksmith, djones1741 Bot for the Young Supernova Experiment YSE
YSE_DECam Y Young Supernova Experiment/DECAT UCSC, QUB, STScI djones1741 Bot for DECam transient discoveries for the Young Supernova Experiment
YSE_flash Y YSE wynnjg
YSE_progenitors Y YSE YSE_Northwestern ckilpatrick
Yuan_Li_bot Y bjp time domain group Yuan Li
ZARTH_bot Y ZTF aarora
ZTF_AMPEL_COMPLETE Y ZTF jnordin ZTF
ZTF_AMPEL_NEW Y ZTF jnordin ZTF
ZTF_AMPEL_Partnership Y ZTF AMPEL (HU Berlin) for the Zwicky Transient Facility jnordin Bot for automatic submission of private ZTF candidates. ZTF
ZTF_bot Y ZTF MPA Garching rcanamer
ZTF_Bot1 Y ZTF cfremling ZTF
ZTF_CLU_PUBLIC Y ZTF ZTF kde ZTF
ZTF_DESY Y ZTF DESY Jannis Necker Querying TNS at DESY
ZTF_MMA_bot Y ZTF ZTF viraj ZTF
ZTF_SN Y ZTF Lawrence Berkeley National Lab autumnawbrey
ZTF_TESS Y ZTF_TESS ZTF cfremling ZTF SN candidates within TESS fields. https://www.ztf.caltech.edu
zy_bot1 Y ST ZhangYu