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Sergio Troncoso

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arXiv2026

GOATS: The next generation software infrastructure for time-domain astronomy at Gemini/NOIRLab. Application to alerts from Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time

Time-domain and multimessenger astronomy (MMA/TDA) targets demand rapid-response follow-up observations. In many cases, it is the only way to make discoveries and advance our understanding of the astrophysical phenomena, for example, kilonovae accompanying gravitational waves from compact object mergers, shock breakout in supernovae, prompt emission from GRBs, etc. Presently the MMA/TDA follow-up workflow requires wrangling disparate software packages and user interfaces. We present an end-to-end software tool for the community, the Gemini Observation and Analysis of Targets System (GOATS), which unifies and simplifies the workflow, particularly for Gemini follow-up observations. GOATS achieves this by integrating services from Gemini Observatory and its parent organization, NSF NOIRLab. From a single platform, GOATS enables enhanced target selection via NOIRLab's ANTARES alert broker, triggering of Gemini (and other facilities within the Astronomical Event Observatory Network), automated data retrieval from the Gemini Observatory Archive, and interactive data reduction and analysis through Gemini's DRAGONS software and NOIRLab's Astro Data Lab science platform. GOATS was successfully deployed in an end-to-end demonstration of real-time follow-up of Rubin/LSST alerts with NOIRLab facilities. As part of this demonstration, we selected targets from the Rubin alert stream and triggered follow-up observations within minutes of the Rubin detections. We obtained spectra for several targets and classified them as supernova of various types (Ia, IIP, Ib/c) with redshifts ranging from 0.05 to 0.35. By eliminating the need to manually connect tools and automating repetitive tasks, GOATS lowers the entry barrier and allows users to focus on the scientific interpretation of the observation results.

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arXiv2026

Picard rank and Ulrich line bundles on bidouble planes

We determine the Picard number and the Ulrich complexity of general bidouble covers of the projective plane, providing the first systematic study of Ulrich bundles on non-cyclic abelian covers. For a bidouble plane branched along three smooth curves of degrees $n_1,n_2,n_3$, we show that $ρ(S)=1$ unless $(n_1,n_2,n_3)$ belongs to an explicit list, thereby extending Buium's classical results on double planes to the non-cyclic case. As an application, we determine the range of branch degrees for which Ulrich line bundles could exist. Our method combines the invariant-theoretic decomposition of $H^2(S,\mathbb{Q})$ under the Galois group with cohomological criteria for Ulrich bundles.

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arXiv2024

On strictly elliptic K3 surfaces and del Pezzo surfaces

This article primarily aims at classifying, on certain K3 surfaces, the elliptic fibrations induced by conic bundles on smooth del Pezzo surfaces. The key geometric tool employed is the Alexeev-Nikulin correspondence between del Pezzo surfaces with log-terminal singularities of Gorenstein index two and K3 surfaces with non-symplectic involutions of elliptic type: the latter surfaces are realized as appropriate double covers obtained from the former ones. The main application of this correspondence is in the study of linear systems that induce elliptic fibrations on K3 surfaces admitting a strictly elliptic non-symplectic involution, i.e., whose fixed locus consists of a single curve of genus $g\geq 2$. The obtained results are similar to those achieved by Garbagnati and Salgado for jacobian elliptic fibrations.

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arXiv2022

Invariant Smooth Quartic Surfaces by all Finite Primitive Groups of $\operatorname{PGL}_4(\mathbb{C})$

For each finite primitive subgroup $G$ of $\operatorname{PGL}_4(\mathbb{C})$, we find all the smooth $G$-invariant quartic surfaces. We also find all the faithful representations in $\operatorname{PGL}_4(\mathbb{C})$ of the smooth quartic $G$-invariant surfaces by the groups: $\mathfrak{A}_5,\mathfrak{S}_5, \operatorname{PSL_2(\mathbb{F}_7)},\mathfrak{A}_6,\mathbb{Z}_2^4\rtimes\mathbb{Z}_5$ and $\mathbb{Z}_2^4\rtimes D_{10}$. The primitive representation of these groups are precisely the subgroups of $\operatorname{PGL}_4(\mathbb{C})$ for which $\mathbb{P}^3$ is not $G$-super rigid. As a byproduct, we show that the smooth quartic surface with the biggest group of projective automorphism is given by $\{ x_0^4 + x_1^4 + x_2^4 + x_3^4 + 12 x_0 x_1 x_2 x_3= 0\}$ (unique up to projective equivalence).

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arXiv2021

Projective manifolds whose tangent bundle is Ulrich

In this article, we give numerical restrictions on the Chern classes of Ulrich bundles on higher-dimensional manifolds, which are inspired by the results of Casnati in the case of surfaces. As a by-product, we prove that the only projective manifolds whose tangent bundle is Ulrich are the twisted cubic and the Veronese surface. Moreover, we prove that the cotangent bundle is never Ulrich.

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arXiv2020

Savage Surfaces

Let $G$ be the topological fundamental group of a given nonsingular complex projective surface. We prove that the Chern slopes $c_1^2(S)/c_2(S)$ of minimal nonsingular projective surfaces of general type $S$ with $π_1(S) \simeq G$ are dense in the interval $[1,3]$.

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