Search Results - "Prince, Thomas A."

The Zwicky Transient Facility: Surveys and Scheduler by Bellm, Eric C., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Barlow, Tom, Feindt, Ulrich, Graham, Matthew J., Goobar, Ariel, Kupfer, Thomas, Ngeow, Chow-Choong, Nugent, Peter, Ofek, Eran, Prince, Thomas A., Riddle, Reed, Walters, Richard, Ye, Quan-Zhi

“…We present a novel algorithm for scheduling the observations of time-domain imaging surveys. Our integer linear programming approach optimizes an observing…”
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The Zwicky Transient Facility: Data Processing, Products, and Archive by Masci, Frank J., Laher, Russ R., Rusholme, Ben, Shupe, David L., Groom, Steven, Surace, Jason, Jackson, Edward, Monkewitz, Serge, Beck, Ron, Flynn, David, Terek, Scott, Landry, Walter, Hacopians, Eugean, Desai, Vandana, Howell, Justin, Brooke, Tim, Imel, David, Wachter, Stefanie, Ye, Quan-Zhi, Lin, Hsing-Wen, Cenko, S. Bradley, Cunningham, Virginia, Rebbapragada, Umaa, Bue, Brian, Miller, Adam A., Mahabal, Ashish, Bellm, Eric C., Patterson, Maria T., Juri, Mario, Golkhou, V. Zach, Ofek, Eran O., Walters, Richard, Graham, Matthew, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Dekany, Richard G., Kupfer, Thomas, Burdge, Kevin, Cannella, Christopher B., Barlow, Tom, Sistine, Angela Van, Giomi, Matteo, Fremling, Christoffer, Blagorodnova, Nadejda, Levitan, David, Riddle, Reed, Smith, Roger M., Helou, George, Prince, Thomas A., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.

“…The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new robotic time-domain survey currently in progress using the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt Telescope. ZTF uses a 47 square…”
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GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE EMISSION FROM COMPACT GALACTIC BINARIES by NISSANKE, Samaya, VALLISNERI, Michele, NELEMANS, Gijs, PRINCE, Thomas A

“…Compact Galactic binaries where at least one member is a white dwarf (WD) or neutron star constitute the majority of individually detectable sources for future…”
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A highly magnetized and rapidly rotating white dwarf as small as the Moon by Caiazzo, Ilaria, Burdge, Kevin B., Fuller, James, Heyl, Jeremy, Kulkarni, S. R., Prince, Thomas A., Richer, Harvey B., Schwab, Josiah, Andreoni, Igor, Bellm, Eric C., Drake, Andrew, Duev, Dmitry A., Graham, Matthew J., Helou, George, Mahabal, Ashish A., Masci, Frank J., Smith, Roger, Soumagnac, Maayane T.

“…White dwarfs represent the last stage of evolution of stars with mass less than about eight times that of the Sun and, like other stars, are often found in…”
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A Large Fraction of Hydrogen-rich Supernova Progenitors Experience Elevated Mass Loss Shortly Prior to Explosion by Bruch, Rachel J., Gal-Yam, Avishay, Schulze, Steve, Yaron, Ofer, Yang, Yi, Soumagnac, Maayane, Rigault, Mickael, Strotjohann, Nora L., Ofek, Eran, Sollerman, Jesper, Masci, Frank J., Barbarino, Cristina, Ho, Anna Y. Q., Fremling, Christoffer, Perley, Daniel, Nordin, Jakob, Cenko, S. Bradley, Adams, S., Adreoni, Igor, Bellm, Eric C., Blagorodnova, Nadia, Bulla, Mattia, Burdge, Kevin, De, Kishalay, Dhawan, Suhail, Drake, Andrew J., Duev, Dmitry A., Dugas, Alison, Graham, Matthew, Graham, Melissa L., Irani, Ido, Jencson, Jacob, Karamehmetoglu, Emir, Kasliwal, Mansi, Kim, Young-Lo, Kulkarni, Shrinivas, Kupfer, Thomas, Liang, Jingyi, Mahabal, Ashish, Miller, A. A., Prince, Thomas A., Riddle, Reed, Sharma, Y., Smith, Roger, Taddia, Francesco, Taggart, Kirsty, Walters, Richard, Yan, Lin

“…Spectroscopic detection of narrow emission lines traces the presence of circumstellar mass distributions around massive stars exploding as core-collapse…”
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General relativistic orbital decay in a seven-minute-orbital-period eclipsing binary system by Burdge, Kevin B., Coughlin, Michael W., Fuller, Jim, Kupfer, Thomas, Bellm, Eric C., Bildsten, Lars, Graham, Matthew J., Kaplan, David L., Roestel, Jan van, Dekany, Richard G., Duev, Dmitry A., Feeney, Michael, Giomi, Matteo, Helou, George, Kaye, Stephen, Laher, Russ R., Mahabal, Ashish A., Masci, Frank J., Riddle, Reed, Shupe, David L., Soumagnac, Maayane T., Smith, Roger M., Szkody, Paula, Walters, Richard, Kulkarni, S. R., Prince, Thomas A.

“…General relativity 1 predicts that short-orbital-period binaries emit considerable amounts of gravitational radiation. The upcoming Laser Interferometer Space…”
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The Zwicky Transient Facility Census of the Local Universe. I. Systematic Search for Calcium-rich Gap Transients Reveals Three Related Spectroscopic Subclasses by De, Kishalay, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Tzanidakis, Anastasios, Fremling, U. Christoffer, Adams, Scott, Aloisi, Robert, Andreoni, Igor, Bagdasaryan, Ashot, Bellm, Eric C., Bildsten, Lars, Cannella, Christopher, Cook, David O., Delacroix, Alexandre, Drake, Andrew, Duev, Dmitry, Dugas, Alison, Frederick, Sara, Gal-Yam, Avishay, Goldstein, Daniel, Golkhou, V. Zach, Graham, Matthew J., Hale, David, Hankins, Matthew, Helou, George, Ho, Anna Y. Q., Irani, Ido, Jencson, Jacob E., Kaplan, David L., Kaye, Stephen, Kulkarni, S. R., Kupfer, Thomas, Laher, Russ R., Leadbeater, Robin, Lunnan, Ragnhild, Masci, Frank J., Miller, Adam A., Neill, James D., Ofek, Eran O., Perley, Daniel A., Polin, Abigail, Prince, Thomas A., Quataert, Eliot, Reiley, Dan, Riddle, Reed L., Rusholme, Ben, Sharma, Yashvi, Shupe, David L., Sollerman, Jesper, Tartaglia, Leonardo, Walters, Richard, Yan, Lin, Yao, Yuhan

“…Using the Zwicky Transient Facility alert stream, we are conducting a large spectroscopic campaign to construct a complete, volume-limited sample of transients…”
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Machine Learning for the Zwicky Transient Facility by Mahabal, Ashish, Rebbapragada, Umaa, Walters, Richard, Masci, Frank J., Blagorodnova, Nadejda, Roestel, Jan van, Ye, Quan-Zhi, Biswas, Rahul, Burdge, Kevin, Chang, Chan-Kao, Duev, Dmitry A., Golkhou, V. Zach, Miller, Adam A., Nordin, Jakob, Ward, Charlotte, Adams, Scott, Bellm, Eric C., Branton, Doug, Bue, Brian, Cannella, Chris, Connolly, Andrew, Dekany, Richard, Feindt, Ulrich, Hung, Tiara, Fortson, Lucy, Frederick, Sara, Fremling, C., Gezari, Suvi, Graham, Matthew, Groom, Steven, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kulkarni, Shrinivas, Kupfer, Thomas, Lin, Hsing Wen, Lintott, Chris, Lunnan, Ragnhild, Parejko, John, Prince, Thomas A., Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Ben, Saunders, Nicholas, Sedaghat, Nima, Shupe, David L., Singer, Leo P., Soumagnac, Maayane T., Szkody, Paula, Tachibana, Yutaro, Tirumala, Kushal, Velzen, Sjoert van, Wright, Darryl

“…The Zwicky Transient Facility is a large optical survey in multiple filters producing hundreds of thousands of transient alerts per night. We describe here…”
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Tidal Disruption Event Demographics with the Zwicky Transient Facility: Volumetric Rates, Luminosity Function, and Implications for the Local Black Hole Mass Function by Yao, Yuhan, Ravi, Vikram, Gezari, Suvi, van Velzen, Sjoert, Lu, Wenbin, Schulze, Steve, Somalwar, Jean J., Kulkarni, S. R., Hammerstein, Erica, Nicholl, Matt, Graham, Matthew J., Perley, Daniel A., Cenko, S. Bradley, Stein, Robert, Ricarte, Angelo, Chadayammuri, Urmila, Quataert, Eliot, Bellm, Eric C., Bloom, Joshua S., Dekany, Richard, Drake, Andrew J., Groom, Steven L., Mahabal, Ashish A., Prince, Thomas A., Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Ben, Sharma, Yashvi, Sollerman, Jesper, Yan, Lin

“…Abstract We conduct a systematic tidal disruption event (TDE) demographics analysis using the largest sample of optically selected TDEs. A flux-limited,…”
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Pulse Morphology of the Galactic Center Magnetar PSR J1745-2900 by Pearlman, Aaron B., Majid, Walid A., Prince, Thomas A., Kocz, Jonathon, Horiuchi, Shinji

“…We present results from observations of the Galactic Center magnetar, PSR J1745-2900, at 2.3 and 8.4 GHz with the NASA Deep Space Network 70 m antenna, DSS-43…”
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The Outer Halo of the Milky Way as Probed by RR Lyr Variables from the Palomar Transient Facility by Cohen, Judith G., Sesar, Branimir, Bahnolzer, Sophianna, He, Kevin, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Prince, Thomas A., Bellm, Eric, Laher, Russ R.

“…Abstract RR Lyrae stars are ideal massless tracers that can be used to study the total mass and dark matter content of the outer halo of the Milky Way (MW)…”
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Variability of Red Supergiants in M31 from the Palomar Transient Factory by Soraisam, Monika D., Bildsten, Lars, Drout, Maria R., Bauer, Evan B., Gilfanov, Marat, Kupfer, Thomas, Laher, Russ R., Masci, Frank, Prince, Thomas A., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Matheson, Thomas, Saha, Abhijit

“…Most massive stars end their lives as red supergiants (RSGs), a short-lived evolutionary phase when they are known to pulsate with varying amplitudes. The RSG…”
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The Prevalence and Influence of Circumstellar Material around Hydrogen-rich Supernova Progenitors by Bruch, Rachel J., Gal-Yam, Avishay, Yaron, Ofer, Chen, Ping, Strotjohann, Nora L., Irani, Ido, Zimmerman, Erez, Schulze, Steve, Yang, Yi, Kim, Young-Lo, Bulla, Mattia, Sollerman, Jesper, Rigault, Mickael, Ofek, Eran, Soumagnac, Maayane, Masci, Frank J., Fremling, Christoffer, Perley, Daniel, Nordin, Jakob, Cenko, S. Bradley, Ho, Anna Y. Q., Adams, S., Adreoni, Igor, Bellm, Eric C., Blagorodnova, Nadia, Burdge, Kevin, De, Kishalay, Dekany, Richard G., Dhawan, Suhail, Drake, Andrew J., Duev, Dmitry A., Graham, Matthew, Graham, Melissa L., Jencson, Jacob, Karamehmetoglu, Emir, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kulkarni, Shrinivas, Miller, A. A., Neill, James D., Prince, Thomas A., Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Benjamin, Sharma, Y., Smith, Roger, Sravan, Niharika, Taggart, Kirsty, Walters, Richard, Yan, Lin

“…Abstract Narrow transient emission lines (flash-ionization features) in early supernova (SN) spectra trace the presence of circumstellar material (CSM) around…”
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Multi-wavelength Observations of AT2019wey: a New Candidate Black Hole Low-mass X-ray Binary by Yao, Yuhan, Kulkarni, S. R., Burdge, Kevin B., Caiazzo, Ilaria, De, Kishalay, Dong, Dillon, Fremling, C., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kupfer, Thomas, van Roestel, Jan, Sollerman, Jesper, Bagdasaryan, Ashot, Bellm, Eric C., Cenko, S. Bradley, Drake, Andrew J., Duev, Dmitry A., Graham, Matthew J., Kaye, Stephen, Masci, Frank J., Miranda, Nicolas, Prince, Thomas A., Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Ben, Soumagnac, Maayane T.

“…Abstract AT2019wey (SRGA J043520.9+552226, SRGE J043523.3+552234) is a transient first reported by the ATLAS optical survey in 2019 December. It rose to…”
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SRGeJ045359.9+622444: A 55 Minute Period Eclipsing AM Canum Venaticorum Star Discovered from a Joint SRG/eROSITA + ZTF Search by Rodriguez, Antonio C., Galiullin, Ilkham, Gilfanov, Marat, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Khamitov, Irek, Bikmaev, Ilfan, van Roestel, Jan, Yungelson, Lev, El-Badry, Kareem, Sunayev, Rashid, Prince, Thomas A., Buntov, Mikhail, Caiazzo, Ilaria, Drake, Andrew, Gorbachev, Mark, Graham, Matthew J., Gumerov, Rustam, Irtuganov, Eldar, Laher, Russ R., Masci, Frank J., Medvedev, Pavel, Purdum, Josiah, Sakhibullin, Nail, Sklyanov, Alexander, Smith, Roger, Szkody, Paula, Vanderbosch, Zachary P.

“…Abstract AM Canum Venaticorum (AM CVn) systems are ultracompact binaries where a white dwarf accretes from a helium-rich degenerate or semidegenerate donor…”
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The Kitt Peak Electron Multiplying CCD demonstrator by Coughlin, Michael W, Dekany, Richard G, Duev, Dmitry A, Feeney, Michael, Kulkarni, S R, Riddle, Reed, Ahumada, Tomás, Burdge, Kevin, Dugas, Alison M, Fremling, Christoffer U, Hallinan, Gregg, Prince, Thomas A, van Roestel, Jan

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Small Near-Earth Asteroids in the Palomar Transient Factory Survey: A Real-Time Streak-detection System by Waszczak, Adam, Prince, Thomas A., Laher, Russ, Masci, Frank, Bue, Brian, Rebbapragada, Umaa, Barlow, Tom, Surace, Jason, Helou, George, Kulkarni, Shrinivas

“…Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) in the 1-100 meter size range are estimated to be ∼1,000 times more numerous than the ∼15,000 currently cataloged NEAs, most of…”
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Discovery of Two Polars from a Crossmatch of ZTF and the SRG/eFEDS X-Ray Catalog by Rodriguez, Antonio C., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Prince, Thomas A., Szkody, Paula, Burdge, Kevin B., Caiazzo, Ilaria, van Roestel, Jan, Vanderbosch, Zachary P., El-Badry, Kareem, Bellm, Eric C., Gänsicke, Boris T., Graham, Matthew J., Mahabal, Ashish A., Masci, Frank J., Mróz, Przemek, Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Ben

“…Abstract Magnetic cataclysmic variables (CVs) are luminous Galactic X-ray sources, which have been difficult to find in purely optical surveys due to their…”
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Orbital Decay in an Accreting and Eclipsing 13.7 Minute Orbital Period Binary with a Luminous Donor by Burdge, Kevin B., El-Badry, Kareem, Rappaport, Saul, Sunny Wong, Tin Long, Bauer, Evan B., Bildsten, Lars, Caiazzo, Ilaria, Chakrabarty, Deepto, Chickles, Emma, Graham, Matthew J., Kara, Erin, Kulkarni, S. R., Marsh, Thomas R., Nynka, Melania, Prince, Thomas A., Simcoe, Robert A., van Roestel, Jan, Vanderbosch, Zach, Bellm, Eric C., Dekany, Richard G., Drake, Andrew J., Helou, George, Masci, Frank J., Milburn, Jennifer, Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Ben, Smith, Roger

“…Abstract We report the discovery of ZTF J0127+5258, a compact mass-transferring binary with an orbital period of 13.7 minutes. The system contains a white…”
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SPIRITS 15c and SPIRITS 14buu: Two Obscured Supernovae in the Nearby Star-forming Galaxy IC 2163 by Jencson, Jacob E., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Johansson, Joel, Contreras, Carlos, Castellón, Sergio, Bond, Howard E., Monson, Andrew J., Masci, Frank J., Cody, Ann Marie, Andrews, Jennifer E., Bally, John, Cao, Yi, Fox, Ori D., Gburek, Timothy, Gehrz, Robert D., Green, Wayne, Helou, George, Hsiao, Eric, Morrell, Nidia, Phillips, Mark, Prince, Thomas A., Simcoe, Robert A., Smith, Nathan, Tinyanont, Samaporn, Williams, Robert

“…SPitzer InfraRed Intensive Transients Survey-SPIRITS-is an ongoing survey of nearby galaxies searching for infrared (IR) transients with Spitzer/IRAC. We…”
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