Miller PASTA Lab

Stellar evolution, explosive transients & variable stars — powered by AI and time-domain astronomy.

Publications

    1. Kwok, L.A., Liu, C., Jha, S.W., Blondin, S., Larison, C., Miller, A.A., Dai, M., Foley, R.J., Filippenko, A.V., Andrews, J.E., et al. (2026). JWST Spectroscopy of SNe Ia 2022aaiq and 2024gy: Evidence for Enhanced Central Stable Ni Abundance and a Deflagration-to-detonation Transition. ApJ 1005 (1), 52. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ae6867
    2. Li, W., Chen, H.Y., Rehemtulla, N., Shah, V.G., Kim, D., Wu, D., Lin, Q., Miller, A.A., Liu, H. (2026). StarEmbed: Benchmarking Time Series Foundation Models on Astronomical Observations of Variable Stars. Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2510.062008
    3. Shah, V.G., Rehemtulla, N., Miller, A.A., Sharma Chaudhary, S., Coughlin, M.W., Le Calloch, A., Graham, M.J., Castaneda Jaimes, J., Jegou du Laz, T., Mahabal, A.A., et al. (2026). Leveraging Multimodality for Real-Time Classification of Transients and Variables found by the Zwicky Transient Facility. arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2607.00228. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2607.00228
    4. Hall, S., Kwok, L.A., Ravi, A.P., Miller, A.A., Dessart, L., Jacobson-Galán, W., Sears, H., Andrews, M., Bostroem, K.A., Brink, T.G., et al. (2026). JWST Observations of Calcium-Strong Transients: I. Complex Nebular He Emission in SN 2024uj. arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2607.00111. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2607.00111
    5. Liu, C., Miller, A.A., Sarin, N., Maguire, K., Müller-Bravo, T.E., Chen, P., Galbany, L., Kim, Y.L., Sollerman, J., Bellm, E.C., et al. (2026). Decoding the Early-Time Light Curves of Type Ia Supernovae. II. Population Parameters of One Thousand ZTF Supernovae. arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2607.00081. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2607.00081
    6. Liu, C., Miller, A.A. (2026). Decoding the Early-Time Light Curves of Type Ia Supernovae. I. A Hierarchical Bayesian Framework for Demographic Inference. arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2607.00075. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2607.00075
    7. Hinkle, J.T., Liu, C., Miller, A.A., Chen, P., Auchettl, K., Shappee, B.J., Kochanek, C.S., Stanek, K., Thompson, T.A. (2026). A Disappearing Act: Constraints From “Missing” Flares of Repeating Partial TDE Candidates. arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2606.06578. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2606.06578
    8. Liu, C., Miller, A.A. (2026). HostSub_GP: Precise Galaxy Background Subtraction in Transient Long-slit Spectroscopy with Gaussian Processes. PASP 138 (2), 024503. doi:10.1088/1538-3873/ae3cc1
    9. Banaszak, S.M., Witt, C.A., Miller, A.A. (2026). Optimizing Optical Searches for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Active Galactic Nuclei Light Curves: Fourier versus Bayesian Periodicity Detection. ApJ 1004 (1), 25. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ae6107
    10. Rehemtulla, N., Miller, A.A., Walmsley, M., Shah, V.G., Jegou du Laz, T., Coughlin, M.W., Sasli, A., Bloom, J., Fremling, C., Graham, M.J., et al. (2025). Pre-training vision models for the classification of alerts from wide-field time-domain surveys. arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2512.11957. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2512.11957
    11. Rehemtulla, N., Coughlin, M.W., Miller, A.A., du Laz, T.J. (2025). The automation of optical transient discovery and classification in Rubin-era time-domain astronomy. Nature Astronomy 9, 1764-1769. doi:10.1038/s41550-025-02720-6
    12. Miller, A.A., Abrams, N.S., Aldering, G., Anand, S., Angus, C.R., Arcavi, I., Baltay, C., Bauer, F.E., Brethauer, D., Bloom, J.S., et al. (2025). The La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey. PASP 137 (9), 094204. doi:10.1088/1538-3873/ae02c5
    13. Liu, C., Miller, A.A., Bloom, J.S., Knop, R.A., Nugent, P.E. (2025). A Morphological Model to Separate Resolved–Unresolved Sources in the DESI Legacy Surveys: Application in the LS4 Alert Stream. PASP 137 (8), 084501. doi:10.1088/1538-3873/adf7db
    14. Schulze, S., Gal-Yam, A., Dessart, L., Miller, A.A., Woosley, S.E., Yang, Y., Bulla, M., Yaron, O., Sollerman, J., Filippenko, A.V., et al. (2025). Extremely stripped supernova reveals a silicon and sulfur formation site. Nature 644 (8077), 634-639. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09375-3
    15. Kwok, L.A., Singh, M., Jha, S.W., Blondin, S., Dastidar, R., Larison, C., Miller, A.A., Andrews, J.E., Andrews, M., Anupama, G., et al. (2025). JWST and Ground-based Observations of the Type Iax Supernovae SN 2024pxl and SN 2024vjm: Evidence for Weak Deflagration Explosions. ApJL 989 (2), L33. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/adf062
    16. Rehemtulla, N., Jacobson-Galán, W., Singh, A., Miller, A.A., Kilpatrick, C.D., Hinds, K.R., Liu, C., Schulze, S., Sollerman, J., Jegou du Laz, T., et al. (2025). The BTSbot-nearby Discovery of SN 2024jlf: Rapid, Autonomous Follow-up Probes Interaction in an 18.5 Mpc Type IIP Supernova. ApJ 985 (2), 241. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/adcf1e
    17. Rehemtulla, N., Miller, A.A., Jegou Du Laz, T., Coughlin, M.W., Fremling, C., Perley, D.A., Qin, Y.J., Sollerman, J., Mahabal, A.A., Laher, R.R., et al. (2024). The Zwicky Transient Facility Bright Transient Survey. III. BTSbot: Automated Identification and Follow-up of Bright Transients with Deep Learning. ApJ 972 (1), 7. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad5666
    18. Liu, C., Miller, A.A., Boos, S.J., Shen, K.J., Townsley, D.M., Schulze, S., Harvey, L., Maguire, K., Johansson, J., Brink, T.G., et al. (2023). SN 2022joj: A Peculiar Type Ia Supernova Possibly Driven by an Asymmetric Helium-shell Double Detonation. ApJ 958 (2), 178. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/acffc9
    19. Liu, C., Miller, A.A., Polin, A., Nugent, A.E., De, K., Nugent, P.E., Schulze, S., Gal-Yam, A., Fremling, C., Anand, S., et al. (2023). SN 2020jgb: A Peculiar Type Ia Supernova Triggered by a Helium-shell Detonation in a Star-forming Galaxy. ApJ 946 (2), 83. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/acbb5e
    20. Rehemtulla, N., Miller, A., Coughlin, M., Jegou Du Laz, T. (2023). BTSbot: A Multi-input Convolutional Neural Network to Automate and Expedite Bright Transient Identification for the Zwicky Transient Facility. Machine Learning for Astrophysics. Workshop at the Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), 27.