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The Catalina Real-time Transient Survey

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-03 v1
Authors: A. J. Drake , S. G. Djorgovski , A. Mahabal , J. L. Prieto , E. Beshore , M. J. Graham , M. Catalan , S. Larson , E. Christensen , C. Donalek , R. Williams
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Abstract

The Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS) currently covers 33,000 deg^2 of the sky in search of transient astrophysical events, with time baselines ranging from 10 minutes to ~7 years. Data provided by the Catalina Sky Survey provides an unequaled baseline against which >4,000 unique optical transient events have been discovered and openly published in real-time. Here we highlight some of the discoveries of CRTS.

Keywords

space missions and telescopes atmospheric optics

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@article{arxiv.1111.2566,
  title  = {The Catalina Real-time Transient Survey},
  author = {A. J. Drake and S. G. Djorgovski and A. Mahabal and J. L. Prieto and E. Beshore and M. J. Graham and M. Catalan and S. Larson and E. Christensen and C. Donalek and R. Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.2566},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

To appear in proc. IAU Symp. 285, "New Horizons in Time Domain Astronomy", eds. E. Griffin et al., Cambridge Univ. Press (2012), 3 pages

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