Demonstrating the Time-domain Capabilities of the 4 m International Liquid Mirror Telescope: An Early Census of Transient and Variable Detections
The PyLMT transient detection pipeline has been operational since 2023 November, detecting transient and variable objects in the ILMT images in almost real time. Using the image subtraction technique, nearly 3700 CCD frames have been analyzed by the automated pipeline, generating ∼23,000 alerts for the detection of ver...