8–12 Sept 2025
Hamburg, Germany
Europe/Berlin timezone

AI Agents for Ground-Based Gamma Astronomy

10 Sept 2025, 12:30
20m
ESA B

ESA B

Oral Track 2: Data Analysis - Algorithms and Tools Track 2: Data Analysis - Algorithms and Tools

Speaker

Julian Simon Schliwinski (Humboldt University of Berlin (DE))

Description

The next generation of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy instruments will involve arrays of dozens of telescopes, leading to an increase in operational and analytical complexity. This scale-up poses challenges for both system operations and offline data processing, especially when conventional approaches struggle to scale effectively. To address these challenges, we are developing AI agents built on instruction-finetuned large language models (LLMs). These agents leverage domain-specific documentation and codebases, understand contextual operational requirements, interact with external APIs, and engage with users in natural language. Our prototypes focus on integration with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory pipelines, both for operational workflows and for offline data analysis. In this presentation, we outline our approach, discuss encountered challenges, and highlight future plans.

References

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00821

Experiment context, if any CTAO, H.E.S.S.

Authors

Dr Dmitriy Kostunin Julian Simon Schliwinski (Humboldt University of Berlin (DE))

Co-authors

Alexandre Strube (Jülich Supercomputing Centre) Sergo Golovachev (JetBrains) Vladimir Sotnikov (JetBrains)

Presentation materials