A team of scientists and engineers at NOIRLab's Community Science and Data Center, along with researchers in the University of Arizona's Department of Computer Science, have been developing a software system to process and filter time-domain alerts. These tools are typically referred to as brokers as they sit between the producers of alerts and the consumers, while adding value. Our broker is the Arizona-NOIRLab Temporal Analysis and Response to Events System (ANTARES). We released v1.0 of

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... ES in June 2020, and it is currently processing the public portion of the ZTF alert stream. Access to the system and instructions for use can be found on the ANTARES website.