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Adaptive Optics Images of Kepler Objects of Interest

All transiting planets are at risk of contamination by blends with nearby, unresolved stars. Blends dilute the transit signal, causing the planet to appear smaller than it really is, or produce a false positive detection when the target…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Elisabeth R. Adams , David R. Ciardi , Andrea K. Dupree , T. Nick Gautier , Craig Kulesa , Don McCarthy

Asteroids in the High cadence Transient Survey

We report on the serendipitous observations of Solar System objects imaged during the High cadence Transient Survey (HiTS) 2014 observation campaign. Data from this high cadence, wide field survey was originally analyzed for finding…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-12 J. Peña , C. Fuentes , F. Förster , J. C. Maureira , J. San Martín , J. Littín , P. Huijse , G. Cabrera-Vives , P. A. Estévez , L. Galbany , S. González-Gaitán , J. Martínez , Th. de Jaeger , M. Hamuy

The High Cadence Transient Survey (HITS): Compilation and characterization of light-curve catalogs

The High Cadence Transient Survey (HiTS) aims to discover and study transient objects with characteristic timescales between hours and days, such as pulsating, eclipsing and exploding stars. This survey represents a unique laboratory to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Jorge Martínez-Palomera , Francisco Förster , Pavlos Protopapas , Juan Carlos Maureira , Paulina Lira , Guillermo Cabrera-Vives , Pablo Huijse , Lluis Galbany , Thomas de Jaeger , Santiago González-Gaitán , Gustavo Medina , Giuliano Pignata , Jaime San Martín , Mario Hamuy , Ricardo R. Muñoz

Adaptive Optics Images II: 12 Kepler Objects of Interest and 15 Confirmed Transiting Planets

All transiting planet observations are at risk of contamination from nearby, unresolved stars. Blends dilute the transit signal, causing the planet to appear smaller than it really is, or produce a false positive detection when the target…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Elisabeth R. Adams , Andrea K. Dupree , Craig Kulesa , Don McCarthy

Search for Astrophysical Transients on Limiting Time Scales and Their Classification Based on INTEGRAL Data

We have searched for ultra-long (> 100 s) gamma-ray transients in the data from the anticoincidence shield (ACS) of the SPI gamma-ray spectrometer onboard the INTEGRAL orbital observatory and classified them by machine learning methods. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-19 G. Yu. Mozgunov , A. S. Pozanenko , P. Yu. Minaev , I. V. Chelovekov , S. A. Grebenev , A. G. Demin , A. V. Ridnaya , D. S. Svinkin , Yu. R. Temiraev , D. D. Frederiks

A Search for Fast Optical Transients in the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey: M Dwarf Flares, Asteroids, Limits on Extragalactic Rates, and Implications for LSST

[Abridged] We present a search for fast optical transients (~0.5 hr-1 day) using repeated observations of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey (PS1/MDS) fields. Our search takes advantage of the consecutive g/r-band observations (16.5 min in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 E. Berger , C. N. Leibler , R. Chornock , A. Rest , R. J. Foley , A. M. Soderberg , P. A. Price , W. S. Burgett , K. C. Chambers , H. Flewelling , M. E. Huber , E. A. Magnier , N. Metcalfe , C. W. Stubbs , J. L. Tonry

Design and operation of the ATLAS Transient Science Server

The Asteroid Terrestrial impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) system consists of two 0.5m Schmidt telescopes with cameras covering 29 square degrees at plate scale of 1.86 arcsec per pixel. Working in tandem, the telescopes routinely survey the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 K. W. Smith , S. J. Smartt , D. R. Young , J. L. Tonry , L. Denneau , H. Flewelling , A. N. Heinze , H. J. Weiland , B. Stalder , A. Rest , C. W. Stubbs , J. P. Anderson , T. -W. Chen , P. Clark , A. Do , F. Förster , M. Fulton , J. Gillanders , O. R. McBrien , D. O'Neill , S. Srivastav , D. E. Wright

Multicolor Photometric Observations of Optical Candidates to Faint ROSAT X-ray Sources in a 1 deg$^2$ field of the BATC Survey

We present optical candidates for 75 X-ray sources in a $\sim 1$ deg$^2$ overlapping region with the medium deep ROSAT survey. These candidates are selected using the multi-color CCD imaging observations made for the T329 field of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-29 Haotong Zhang , Suijian Xue , David Burstein , Xu Zhou , Zhaoji Jiang , Hong Wu , Jun Ma , Jiansheng Chen , Zhenlong Zou

A Lucky Imaging search for stellar companions to transiting planet host stars

The presence of stellar companions around planet hosting stars influences the architecture of their planetary systems. To find and characterise these companions and determine their orbits is thus an important consideration to understand…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-09 Maria Wöllert , Wolfgang Brandner , Carolina Bergfors , Thomas Henning

A Study of Quasar Clustering at z>2.7 from the Palomar Transit Grism Survey

The quest for structure indicators at earlier and earlier times in the evolution of the universe has led to the search for objects with ever higher redshifts. The Palomar Transit Grism Survey has produced a large sample of high redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrew W. Stephens , Donald P. Schneider , Maarten Schmidt , James E. Gunn , David H. Weinberg

The Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey

This paper describes the data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) Supernova Survey conducted between 2005 and 2007. Light curves, spectra, classifications, and ancillary data are presented for 10,258 variable and transient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Masao Sako , Bruce Bassett , Andrew C. Becker , Peter J. Brown , Heather Campbell , Rachel Cane , David Cinabro , Chris B. D'Andrea , Kyle S. Dawson , Fritz DeJongh , Darren L. Depoy , Ben Dilday , Mamoru Doi , Alexei V. Filippenko , John A. Fischer , Ryan J. Foley , Joshua A. Frieman , Lluis Galbany , Peter M. Garnavich , Ariel Goobar , Ravi R. Gupta , Gary J. Hill , Brian T. Hayden , Renee Hlozek , Jon A. Holtzman , Ulrich Hopp , Saurabh W. Jha , Richard Kessler , Wolfram Kollatschny , Giorgos Leloudas , John Marriner , Jennifer L. Marshall , Ramon Miquel , Tomoki Morokuma , Jennifer Mosher , Robert C. Nichol , Jakob Nordin , Matthew D. Olmstead , Linda Ostman , Jose L. Prieto , Michael Richmond , Roger W. Romani , Jesper Sollerman , Max Stritzinger , Donald P. Schneider , Mathew Smith , J. Craig Wheeler , Naoki Yasuda , Chen Zheng

SubmilliJansky Transients in Archival Radio Observations

[ABRIDGED] We report the results of a 944-epoch survey for transient sources with archival data from the Very Large Array spanning 22 years with a typical epoch separation of 7 days. Observations were obtained at 5 or 8.4 GHz for a single…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Geoffrey C. Bower , Destry Saul , Joshua S. Bloom , Alberto Bolatto , Alexei V. Filippenko , Ryan J. Foley , Daniel Perley

Optical follow-up study of 32 high-redshift galaxy cluster candidates from Planck with the William Herschel Telescope

The Planck satellite has detected cluster candidates via the Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, but the optical follow-up required to confirm these candidates is still incomplete, especially at high redshifts and for SZ detections at low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 Hannah Zohren , Tim Schrabback , Remco F. J. van der Burg , Monique Arnaud , Jean-Baptiste Melin , Jan Luca van den Busch , Henk Hoekstra , Matthias Klein

Discovery of a Transient U-band Dropout in a Lyman-Break Survey: A Tidally-Disrupted Star at z = 3.3?

We report the discovery of a transient source in the central regions of galaxy cluster Abell 267. The object, which we call "PALS1", was found in a survey aimed at identifying highly-magnified Lyman-break galaxies in the fields of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Stern , P. G. van Dokkum , Peter Nugent , D. J. Sand , R. S. Ellis , Mark Sullivan , J. S. Bloom , D. A. Frail , J. -P. Kneib , L. V. E. Koopmans , Tommaso Treu

A Catalog of 200 Galaxy Clusters Serendipitously Detected in the ROSAT PSPC Pointed Observations

We present a catalog of 200 clusters of galaxies serendipitously detected in 647 ROSAT PSPC pointings covering 158 square degrees. This is one of the largest X-ray selected cluster samples, comparable in size only to the ROSAT All-Sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Vikhlinin. B. R. McNamara , W. Forman , C. Jones , H. Quintana , A. Hornstrup

Optical Confirmation and Redshift Estimation of the Planck Cluster Candidates overlapping the Pan-STARRS Survey

We report results of a study of Planck Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) selected galaxy cluster candidates using the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) imaging data. We first examine 150 Planck confirmed galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-02 J. Liu , C. Hennig , S. Desai , B. Hoyle , J. Koppenhoefer , J. J. Mohr , K. Paech , W. S. Burgett , K. C. Chambers , S. Cole , P. W. Draper , N. Kaiser , N. Metcalfe , J. S. Morgan , P. A. Price , C. W. Stubbs , J. L. Tonry , R. J. Wainscoat , C. Waters

Galaxy Alignments in Very X-ray Luminous Clusters at z>0.5

We present the results of a search for galaxy alignments in 12 galaxy clusters at z>0.5, a statistically complete subset of the very X-ray luminous clusters from the MAssive Cluster Survey (MACS). Using high-quality images taken with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Chao-Ling Hung , Harald Ebeling

$Spitzer$-selected $z > 1.3$ protocluster candidates in the LSST Deep Drilling Fields

We have identified 189 candidate $z > 1.3$ protoclusters and clusters in the LSST Deep Drilling Fields. This sample will enable the measurement of the metal enrichment and star formation history of clusters during their early assembly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-12 Harry Gully , Nina Hatch , Yannick Bahé , Michael Balogh , Micol Bolzonella , M. C. Cooper , Adam Muzzin , Lucia Pozzetti , Gregory Rudnick , Benedetta Vulcani , Gillian Wilson

Search for transient optical counterparts to high-energy IceCube neutrinos with Pan-STARRS1

In order to identify the sources of the observed diffuse high-energy neutrino flux, it is crucial to discover their electromagnetic counterparts. IceCube began releasing alerts for single high-energy ($E > 60$ TeV) neutrino detections with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-14 E. Kankare , M. Huber , S. J. Smartt , K. Chambers , K. W. Smith , O. McBrien , T. -W. Chen , H. Flewelling , T. Lowe , E. Magnier , A. Schultz , C. Waters , R. J. Wainscoat , M. Willman , D. Wright , D. Young , M. G. Aartsen , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , M. Ahrens , C. Alispach , D. Altmann , K. Andeen , T. Anderson , I. Ansseau , G. Anton , C. Argüelles , J. Auffenberg , S. Axani , P. Backes , H. Bagherpour , X. Bai , A. Barbano , S. W. Barwick , V. Baum , R. Bay , J. J. Beatty , K. -H. Becker , J. Becker Tjus , S. BenZvi , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , D. Z. Besson , G. Binder , D. Bindig , E. Blaufuss , S. Blot , C. Bohm , M. Börner , S. Böser , O. Botner , E. Bourbeau , J. Bourbeau , F. Bradascio , J. Braun , H. -P. Bretz , S. Bron , J. Brostean-Kaiser , A. Burgman , R. S. Busse , T. Carver , C. Chen , E. Cheung , D. Chirkin , K. Clark , L. Classen , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , P. Coppin , P. Correa , D. F. Cowen , R. Cross , P. Dave , J. P. A. M. de André , C. De Clercq , J. J. DeLaunay , H. Dembinski , K. Deoskar , S. De Ridder , P. Desiati , K. D. de Vries , G. de Wasseige , M. de With , T. DeYoung , J. C. Dí az-Vélez , H. Dujmovic , M. Dunkman , E. Dvorak , B. Eberhardt , T. Ehrhardt , P. Eller , P. A. Evenson , S. Fahey , A. R. Fazely , J. Felde , K. Filimonov , C. Finley , A. Franckowiak , E. Friedman , A. Fritz , T. K. Gaisser , J. Gallagher , E. Ganster , S. Garrappa , L. Gerhardt , K. Ghorbani , T. Glauch , T. Glüsenkamp , A. Goldschmidt , J. G. Gonzalez , D. Grant , Z. Griffith , M. Günder , M. Gündüz , C. Haack , A. Hallgren , L. Halve , F. Halzen , K. Hanson , D. Hebecker , D. Heereman , K. Helbing , R. Hellauer , F. Henningsen , S. Hickford , J. Hignight , G. C. Hill , K. D. Hoffman , R. Hoffmann , T. Hoinka , B. Hokanson-Fasig , K. Hoshina , F. Huang , M. Huber , K. Hultqvist , M. Hünnefeld , R. Hussain , S. In , N. Iovine , A. Ishihara , E. Jacobi , G. S. Japaridze , M. Jeong , K. Jero , B. J. P. Jones , W. Kang , A. Kappes , D. Kappesser , T. Karg , M. Karl , A. Karle , U. Katz , M. Kauer , A. Keivani , J. L. Kelley , A. Kheirandish , J. Kim , T. Kintscher , J. Kiryluk , T. Kittler , S. R. Klein , R. Koirala , H. Kolanoski , L. Köpke , C. Kopper , S. Kopper , D. J. Koskinen , M. Kowalski , K. Krings , G. Krückl , N. Kulacz , S. Kunwar , N. Kurahashi , A. Kyriacou , M. Labare , J. L. Lanfranchi , M. J. Larson , F. Lauber , J. P. Lazar , K. Leonard , M. Leuermann , Q. R. Liu , E. Lohfink , C. J. Lozano Mariscal , L. Lu , F. Lucarelli , J. Lünemann , W. Luszczak , J. Madsen , G. Maggi , K. B. M. Mahn , Y. Makino , K. Mallot , S. Mancina , I. C. Mariş , R. Maruyama , K. Mase , R. Maunu , K. Meagher , M. Medici , A. Medina , M. Meier , S. Meighen-Berger , T. Menne , G. Merino , T. Meures , S. Miarecki , J. Micallef , G. Momenté , T. Montaruli , R. W. Moore , M. Moulai , R. Nagai , R. Nahnhauer , P. Nakarmi , U. Naumann , G. Neer , H. Niederhausen , S. C. Nowicki , D. R. Nygren , A. Obertacke Pollmann , A. Olivas , A. O'Murchadha , E. O'Sullivan , T. Palczewski , H. Pandya , D. V. Pankova , N. Park , P. Peiffer , C. Pérez de los Heros , D. Pieloth , E. Pinat , A. Pizzuto , M. Plum , P. B. Price , G. T. Przybylski , C. Raab , A. Raissi , M. Rameez , L. Rauch , K. Rawlins , I. C. Rea , R. Reimann , B. Relethford , G. Renzi , E. Resconi , W. Rhode , M. Richman , S. Robertson , M. Rongen , C. Rott , T. Ruhe , D. Ryckbosch , D. Rysewyk , I. Safa , S. E. Sanchez Herrera , A. Sandrock , J. Sandroos , M. Santander , S. Sarkar , S. Sarkar , K. Satalecka , M. Schaufel , P. Schlunder , T. Schmidt , A. Schneider , J. Schneider , L. Schumacher , S. Sclafani , D. Seckel , S. Seunarine , M. Silva , R. Snihur , J. Soedingrekso , D. Soldin , M. Song , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , J. Stachurska , M. Stamatikos , T. Stanev , A. Stasik , R. Stein , J. Stettner , A. Steuer , T. Stezelberger , R. G. Stokstad , A. Stößl , N. L. Strotjohann , T. Stuttard , G. W. Sullivan , M. Sutherland , I. Taboada , F. Tenholt , S. Ter-Antonyan , A. Terliuk , S. Tilav , L. Tomankova , C. Tönnis , S. Toscano , D. Tosi , M. Tselengidou , C. F. Tung , A. Turcati , R. Turcotte , C. F. Turley , B. Ty , E. Unger , M. A. Unland Elorrieta , M. Usner , J. Vandenbroucke , W. Van Driessche , D. van Eijk , N. van Eijndhoven , S. Vanheule , J. van Santen , M. Vraeghe , C. Walck , A. Wallace , M. Wallraff , N. Wandkowsky , T. B. Watson , C. Weaver , M. J. Weiss , J. Weldert , C. Wendt , J. Werthebach , S. Westerhoff , B. J. Whelan , N. Whitehorn , K. Wiebe , C. H. Wiebusch , L. Wille , D. R. Williams , L. Wills , M. Wolf , J. Wood , T. R. Wood , K. Woschnagg , G. Wrede , D. L. Xu , X. W. Xu , Y. Xu , J. P. Yanez , G. Yodh , S. Yoshida , T. Yuan , J. Nordin

Quasars Clustering at z approx 3 on Scales less sim 10 h^{-1} Mpc

We test the hypothesis whether high redshift QSOs would preferentially appear in small groups or pairs, and if they are associated with massive, young clusters. We carried out a photometric search for \Ly emitters on scales $\lesssim 10…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Infante , J. Varela , M. Moles , G. Hertling , A. Garcia , F. Menanteau