Blue sky catastrophe in the phenomenological model of neuron-astrocyte interaction

We study a bifurcation scenario that corresponds to the transition from bursting activity to spiking in a phenomenological model of neuron-astrocyte interaction in neuronal populations. In order to do this, we numerically obtain one-dimensional Poincaré return map and highlight its bifurcation structure using an analytically constructed piecewise smooth model map. This map reveals the existence of a cascade of period-adding bifurcations, leading to a bursting-spiking transition via blue sky catastrophe.