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MODELING THERMAL DUST EMISSION WITH TWO COMPONENTS: APPLICATION TO THE PLANCK HIGH FREQUENCY INSTRUMENT MAPS by Meisner, Aaron M, Finkbeiner, Douglas P

“…We apply the Finkbeiner et al. two-component thermal dust emission model to the Planck High Frequency Instrument maps. This parameterization of the…”
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unTimely: a Full-sky, Time-domain unWISE Catalog by Meisner, Aaron M., Caselden, Dan, Schlafly, Edward F., Kiwy, Frank

“…Abstract We present the unTimely Catalog, a deep time-domain catalog of detections based on Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and NEOWISE observations…”
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A new physical interpretation of optical and infrared variability in quasars by Ross, Nicholas P, Ford, K E Saavik, Graham, Matthew, McKernan, Barry, Stern, Daniel, Meisner, Aaron M, Assef, Roberto J, Dey, Arjun, Drake, Andrew J, Jun, Hyunsung D, Lang, Dustin

“…Changing-look quasars are a recently identified class of active galaxies in which the strong UV continuum and/or broad optical hydrogen emission lines…”
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A CASE AGAINST SPINNING PAHS AS THE SOURCE OF THE ANOMALOUS MICROWAVE EMISSION by Hensley, Brandon S., Draine, B. T., Meisner, Aaron M.

“…ABSTRACT We employ an all-sky map of the anomalous microwave emission (AME) produced by component separation of the microwave sky to study correlations between…”
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A Mid-IR Selected Changing-look Quasar and Physical Scenarios for Abrupt AGN Fading by Stern, Daniel, McKernan, Barry, Graham, Matthew J., Ford, K. E. S., Ross, Nicholas P., Meisner, Aaron M., Assef, Roberto J., Balokovi, Mislav, Brightman, Murray, Dey, Arjun, Drake, Andrew, Djorgovski, S. G., Eisenhardt, Peter, Jun, Hyunsung D.

“…We report a new changing-look quasar, WISE J105203.55+151929.5 at z = 0.303, found by identifying highly mid-IR-variable quasars in the Wide-field Infrared…”
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The clustering of DESI-like luminous red galaxies using photometric redshifts by Zhou, Rongpu, Newman, Jeffrey A, Mao, Yao-Yuan, Meisner, Aaron, Moustakas, John, Myers, Adam D, Prakash, Abhishek, Zentner, Andrew R, Brooks, David, Duan, Yutong, Landriau, Martin, Levi, Michael E, Prada, Francisco, Tarle, Gregory

“…ABSTRACT We present measurements of the redshift-dependent clustering of a DESI-like luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample selected from the Legacy Survey imaging…”
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A FULL-SKY, HIGH-RESOLUTION ATLAS OF GALACTIC 12 μm DUST EMISSION WITH WISE by Meisner, Aaron M, Finkbeiner, Douglas P

“…We describe our custom processing of the entire Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) 12 mu m imaging data set, and present a high-resolution, full-sky…”
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WISE 2150-7520AB: A Very Low-mass, Wide Comoving Brown Dwarf System Discovered through the Citizen Science Project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 by Faherty, Jacqueline, Goodman, Sam, Caselden, Dan, Colin, Guillaume, Kuchner, Marc J., Meisner, Aaron, Gagné, Jonathan, Schneider, Adam, Gonzales, Eileen C., Gagliuffi, Daniella C. Bardalez, Logsdon, Sarah E., Allers, Katelyn, Burgasser, Adam J.

“…We report the discovery of WISE 2150-7520AB (W2150AB): a widely separated (∼341 au) very low-mass L1 + T8 co-moving system. The system consists of the…”
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Rapidly evolving Galactic plane outbursts in NEOWISE: revisiting the Galactic nova rate with the first all-sky search in the mid-infrared by Zuckerman, Liam, De, Kishalay, Eilers, Anna-Christina, Meisner, Aaron M, Panagiotou, Christos

“…ABSTRACT The Galactic nova rate is intimately linked to our understanding of its chemical enrichment and progenitor channels of Type Ia supernovae. Yet past…”
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Long-term 4.6 μm Variability in Brown Dwarfs and a New Technique for Identifying Brown Dwarf Binary Candidates by Brooks, Hunter, Kirkpatrick, J. Davy, Meisner, Aaron M., Gelino, Christopher R., Bardalez Gagliuffi, Daniella C., Marocco, Federico, Schneider, Adam C., Faherty, Jacqueline K., Casewell, S. L., Raghu, Yadukrishna, Kuchner, Marc J.

“…Abstract Using a sample of 361 nearby brown dwarfs, we have searched for 4.6 μ m variability, indicative of large-scale rotational modulations or large-scale,…”
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Exploring the Extremes: Characterizing a New Population of Old and Cold Brown Dwarfs by Meisner, Aaron M., Leggett, S. K., Logsdon, Sarah E., Schneider, Adam C., Tremblin, Pascal, Phillips, Mark

“…Abstract Mapping out the populations of thick disk and halo brown dwarfs is important for understanding the metallicity dependence of low-temperature…”
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DECam Multimessenger Astrophysics Pipeline. I. From Raw Data to Single-exposure Candidates by Fu, Shenming, Matheson, Thomas, Meisner, Aaron, Zhang, Yuanyuan, Vicencio, Sebastián, Saul, Destry

“…Abstract We introduce a pipeline that performs rapid image subtraction and source selection to detect transients, with a focus on identifying…”
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The Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey 2 (DECaPS2): More Sky, Less Bias, and Better Uncertainties by Saydjari, Andrew K., Schlafly, Edward F., Lang, Dustin, Meisner, Aaron M., Green, Gregory M., Zucker, Catherine, Zelko, Ioana, Speagle, Joshua S., Daylan, Tansu, Lee, Albert, Valdes, Francisco, Schlegel, David, Finkbeiner, Douglas P.

“…Abstract Deep optical and near-infrared imaging of the entire Galactic plane is essential for understanding our Galaxy’s stars, gas, and dust. The second data…”
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A New Population of Mid-infrared-selected Tidal Disruption Events: Implications for Tidal Disruption Event Rates and Host Galaxy Properties by Masterson, Megan, De, Kishalay, Panagiotou, Christos, Kara, Erin, Arcavi, Iair, Eilers, Anna-Christina, Frostig, Danielle, Gezari, Suvi, Grotova, Iuliia, Liu, Zhu, Malyali, Adam, Meisner, Aaron M., Merloni, Andrea, Newsome, Megan, Rau, Arne, Simcoe, Robert A., van Velzen, Sjoert

“…Abstract Most tidal disruption events (TDEs) are currently found in time-domain optical and soft X-ray surveys, both of which are prone to significant…”
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Siena Galaxy Atlas 2020 by Moustakas, John, Lang, Dustin, Dey, Arjun, Juneau, Stéphanie, Meisner, Aaron, Myers, Adam D., Schlafly, Edward F., Schlegel, David J., Valdes, Francisco, Weaver, Benjamin A., Zhou, Rongpu

“…Abstract We present the 2020 version of the Siena Galaxy Atlas (SGA-2020), a multiwavelength optical and infrared imaging atlas of 383,620 nearby galaxies. The…”
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Simulating Brown Dwarf Observations for Various Mass Functions, Birthrates, and Low-mass Cutoffs by Raghu, Yadukrishna, Kirkpatrick, J. Davy, Marocco, Federico, Gelino, Christopher R., Bardalez Gagliuffi, Daniella C., Faherty, Jacqueline K., Schurr, Steven D., Schneider, Adam C., Meisner, Aaron M., Kuchner, Marc J., Brooks, Hunter, Grigorian, Jake

“…Abstract After decades of brown dwarf discovery and follow-up, we can now infer the functional form of the mass distribution within 20 pc, which serves as a…”
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A Luminous Dust-obscured Tidal Disruption Event Candidate in a Star-forming Galaxy at 42 Mpc by Panagiotou, Christos, De, Kishalay, Masterson, Megan, Kara, Erin, Calzadilla, Michael, Eilers, Anna-Christina, Frostig, Danielle, Karambelkar, Viraj, Kasliwal, Mansi, Lourie, Nathan, Meisner, Aaron M., Simcoe, Robert A., Stein, Robert, Zolkower, Jeffry

“…Abstract While the vast majority of tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been identified by wide-field sky surveys in the optical and X-ray bands, recent…”
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An infrared transient from a star engulfing a planet by De, Kishalay, MacLeod, Morgan, Karambelkar, Viraj, Jencson, Jacob E., Chakrabarty, Deepto, Conroy, Charlie, Dekany, Richard, Eilers, Anna-Christina, Graham, Matthew J., Hillenbrand, Lynne A., Kara, Erin, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kulkarni, S. R., Lau, Ryan M., Loeb, Abraham, Masci, Frank, Medford, Michael S., Meisner, Aaron M., Patel, Nimesh, Quiroga-Nuñez, Luis Henry, Riddle, Reed L., Rusholme, Ben, Simcoe, Robert, Sjouwerman, Loránt O., Teague, Richard, Vanderburg, Andrew

“…Planets with short orbital periods (roughly under 10 days) are common around stars like the Sun 1 , 2 . Stars expand as they evolve and thus we expect their…”
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WISEA J041451.67-585456.7 and WISEA J181006.18-101000.5: The First Extreme T-type Subdwarfs? by Schneider, Adam C., Burgasser, Adam J., Gerasimov, Roman, Marocco, Federico, Gagné, Jonathan, Goodman, Sam, Beaulieu, Paul, Pendrill, William, Rothermich, Austin, Sainio, Arttu, Kuchner, Marc J., Caselden, Dan, Meisner, Aaron M., Faherty, Jacqueline K., Mamajek, Eric E., Hsu, Chih-Chun, Greco, Jennifer J., Cushing, Michael C., Kirkpatrick, J. Davy, Bardalez-Gagliuffi, Daniella, Logsdon, Sarah E., Allers, Katelyn, Debes, John H.

“…We present the discoveries of WISEA J041451.67−585456.7 and WISEA J181006.18−101000.5, two low-temperature (1200-1400 K), high proper motion T-type subdwarfs…”
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An Investigation of New Brown Dwarf Spectral Binary Candidates From the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Initiative by Bravo, Alexia, Schneider, Adam C., Bardalez Gagliuffi, Daniella, Burgasser, Adam J., Meisner, Aaron M., Kirkpatrick, J. Davy, Faherty, Jacqueline K., Kuchner, Marc J., Caselden, Dan, Sainio, Arttu, Hamlet, Les

“…Abstract We present three new brown dwarf spectral-binary candidates: CWISE J072708.09−360729.2, CWISE J103604.84−514424.4, and CWISE J134446.62−732053.9,…”
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