Nat Butler — Scifaro

The Solar System Notification Alert Processing System (SNAPS): Design, Architecture, and First Data Release (SNAPShot1)

We present here the design, architecture, and first data release for the Solar System Notification Alert Processing System (SNAPS). SNAPS is a Solar System broker that ingests alert data from all-sky surveys. At present, we ingest data from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 David E. Trilling , Michael Gowanlock , Daniel Kramer , Andrew McNeill , Brian Donnelly , Nat Butler , John Kececioglu

Night Vision for Small Telescopes

We explore the feasibility of using current generation, off-the-shelf, indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) near-infrared (NIR) detectors for astronomical observations. Light-weight InGaAs cameras, developed for the night vision industry and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-16 Robert Strausbaugh , Rebecca Jackson , Nat Butler

HETE-2 Observations of the X-Ray Flash XRF 040916

A long X-ray flash was detected and localized by the instruments aboard the High Energy Transient Explorer II (HETE-2) at 00:03:30 UT on 2004 September 16. The position was reported to the GRB Coordinates Network (GCN) approximately 2 hours…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Makoto Arimoto , Nobuyuki Kawai , Atsumasa Yoshida , Toru Tamagawa , Yuji Shirasaki , Motoko Suzuki , Masaru Matsuoka , Jun'ichi Kotoku , Rie Sato , Takashi Shimokawabe , Nicolas Vasquez Pazmino , Takuto Ishimura , Yujin Nakagawa , Nobuyuki Ishikawa , Akina Kobayashi , Satoshi Sugita , Ichiro Takahashi , Makoto Kuwahara , Makoto Yamauchi , Kunio Takagishi , Isamu Hatsukade , Jean-Luc Atteia , Alexandre Pelangeon , Roland Vanderspek , Carlo Graziani , Gregory Prigozhin , Joel Villasenor , J. Garrett Jernigan , Geoffrey B. Crew , Kevin Hurley , Takanori Sakamoto , George R. Ricker , Stanford E. Woosley , Nat Butler , Al Levine , John P. Doty , Timothy Q. Donaghy , Donald Q. Lamb , Edward E. Fenimore , Mark Galassi , Michel Boer , Jean-Pascal Dezalay , Jean-Francios Olive , Joao Braga , Ravi Manchanda , Graziella Pizzichini

An Optically Dark GRB Observed by HETE-2: GRB 051022

GRB 051022 was detected at 13:07:58 on 22 October 2005 by HETE-2. The location of GRB 051022 was determined immediately by the flight localization system. This burst contains multiple pulses and has a rather long duration of about 190…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yujin E. Nakagawa , Atsumasa Yoshida , Satoshi Sugita , Kaoru Tanaka , Nobuyuki Ishikawa , Toru Tamagawa , Motoko Suzuki , Yuji Shirasaki , Nobuyuki Kawai , Masaru Matsuoka , Jean-Luc Atteia , Alexandre Pelangeon , Roland Vanderspek , Geoff B. Crew , Joel S. Villasenor , Nat Butler , John Doty , George R. Ricker , Graziella Pizzichini , Timothy Q. Donaghy , Donald Q. Lamb , Carlo Graziani , Rie Sato , Miki Maetou , Makoto Arimoto , Jun'ichi Kotoku , J. Garret Jernigan , Takanori Sakamoto , Jean-Francois Olive , Michel Boer , Edward E. Fenimore , Mark Galassi , Stanford E. Woosley , Makoto Yamauchi , Kunio Takagishi , Isamu Hatsukade

SN2010jp (PTF10aaxi): A Jet-Driven Type II Supernova

We present photometry and spectroscopy of the peculiar TypeII supernova (SN) 2010jp, also named PTF10aaxi. The light curve exhibits a linear decline with a relatively low peak absolute magnitude of only -15.9, and a low radioactive decay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Nathan Smith , S. Bradley Cenko , Nat Butler , Joshua S. Bloom , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Assaf Horesh , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni , Nicholas M. Law , Peter E. Nugent , Eran O. Ofek , Dovi Poznanski , Robert M. Quimby , Branimir Sesar , Sagi Ben-Ami , Iair Arcavi , Avishay Gal-Yam , David Polishook , Dong Xu , Ofer Yaron , Dale A. Frail , Mark Sullivan

Multiple Component Analysis of Time Resolved Spectra of GRB041006: A Clue to the Nature of Underlying Soft Component of GRBs

GRB 041006 was detected by HETE-2 at 12:18:08 UT on 06 October 2004. This GRB displays a soft X-ray emission, a precursor before the onset of the main event, and also a soft X-ray tail after the end of the main peak. The light curves in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yuji Shirasaki , Atsumasa Yoshida , Nobuyuki Kawai , Toru Tamagawa , Takanori Sakamoto , Motoko Suzuki , Yujin Nakagawam , Akina Kobayashi , Satoshi Sugita , Ichiro Takahashi , Makoto Arimoto , Takashi Shimokawabe , Nicolas Vasquez Pazmino , Takuto Ishimura , Rie Sato , Masaru Matsuoka , Edward E. Fenimore , Mark Galassi , Donald Q. Lamb , Carlo Graziani , Timothy Q. Donaghy , Jean-Luc Atteia , Alexandre Pelangeon , Roland Vanderspek , Geoffrey B. Crew , John P. Doty , Joel Villasenor , Gregory Prigozhin , Nat Butler , George R. Ricker , Kevin Hurley , Stanford E. Woosley , Graziella Pizzichini

The Synoptic All-Sky Infrared (SASIR) Survey

We are proposing to conduct a multicolor, synoptic infrared (IR) imaging survey of the Northern sky with a new, dedicated 6.5-meter telescope at San Pedro M\'artir (SPM) Observatory. This initiative is being developed in partnership with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-31 Joshua S. Bloom , J. Xavier Prochaska , William Lee , J. Jesús González , Enrico Ramírez-Ruiz , Michael Bolte , José Franco , José Guichard , Alberto Carramiñana , Peter Strittmatter , Vladimir Avila-Reese , Rebecca Bernstein , Bruce Bigelow , Mark Brodwin , Adam Burgasser , Nat Butler , Miguel Chávez , Bethany Cobb , Kem Cook , Irene Cruz-González , José Antonio de Diego , Alejandro Farah , Leonid Georgiev , Julien Girard , Hector Hernández-Toledo , Elena Jiménez-Bailón , Yair Krongold , Divakara Mayya , Juan Meza , Takamitsu Miyaji , Raúl Mújica , Peter Nugent , Alicia Porras , Dovi Poznanski , Alejandro Raga , Michael Richer , Lino Rodríguez , Daniel Rosa , Adam Stanford , Andrew Szentgyorgyi , Guillermo Tenorio-Tagle , Rollin Thomas , Octavio Valenzuela , Alan M. Watson , Peter Wehinger