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Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a), the optical counterpart to a gravitational wave source by Coulter, D. A., Foley, R. J., Kilpatrick, C. D., Drout, M. R., Piro, A. L., Shappee, B. J., Siebert, M. R., Simon, J. D., Ulloa, N., Kasen, D., Madore, B. F., Murguia-Berthier, A., Pan, Y.-C., Prochaska, J. X., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Rest, A., Rojas-Bravo, C.

“…On 17 August 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo interferometer detected gravitational waves (GWs) emanating…”
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ATLAS: A High-cadence All-sky Survey System by Tonry, J. L., Denneau, L., Heinze, A. N., Stalder, B., Smith, K. W., Smartt, S. J., Stubbs, C. W., Weiland, H. J., Rest, A.

“…Technology has advanced to the point that it is possible to image the entire sky every night and process the data in real time. The sky is hardly static: many…”
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Design and Operation of the ATLAS Transient Science Server by Smith, K. W., Smartt, S. J., Young, D. R., Tonry, J. L., Denneau, L., Flewelling, H., Heinze, A. N., Weiland, H. J., Stalder, B., Rest, A., Stubbs, C. W., Anderson, J. P., Chen, T.-W, Clark, P., Do, A., Förster, F., Fulton, M., Gillanders, J., McBrien, O. R., O'Neill, D., Srivastav, S., Wright, D. E.

“…The Asteroid Terrestrial impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) system consists of two 0.5 m Schmidt telescopes with cameras covering 29 square degrees at plate…”
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Simulations of the WFIRST Supernova Survey and Forecasts of Cosmological Constraints by Hounsell, R., Scolnic, D., Foley, R. J., Kessler, R., Miranda, V., Avelino, A., Bohlin, R. C., Filippenko, A. V., Frieman, J., Jha, S. W., Kelly, P. L., Kirshner, R. P., Mandel, K., Rest, A., Riess, A. G., Rodney, S. A., Strolger, L.

“…The Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was the highest-ranked large space-based mission of the 2010 New Worlds, New Horizons decadal survey. It is…”
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The host galaxy and late-time evolution of the superluminous supernova PTF12dam by Chen, T.-W., Smartt, S. J., Jerkstrand, A., Nicholl, M., Bresolin, F., Kotak, R., Polshaw, J., Rest, A., Kudritzki, R., Zheng, Z., Elias-Rosa, N., Smith, K., Inserra, C., Wright, D., Kankare, E., Kangas, T., Fraser, M.

“…Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) of Type Ic have a tendency to occur in faint host galaxies which are likely to have low mass and low metallicity. PTF12dam is…”
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SHOCK BREAKOUT AND EARLY LIGHT CURVES OF TYPE II-P SUPERNOVAE OBSERVED WITH KEPLER by Garnavich, P. M., Tucker, B. E., Rest, A., Shaya, E. J., Olling, R. P., Kasen, D, Villar, A.

“…ABSTRACT We discovered two transient events in the Kepler field with light curves that strongly suggest they are type II-P supernovae (SNe II-P). Using the…”
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Supernova Photometric Classification Pipelines Trained on Spectroscopically Classified Supernovae from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-deep Survey by Villar, V. A., Berger, E., Miller, G., Chornock, R., Rest, A., Jones, D. O., Drout, M. R., Foley, R. J., Kirshner, R., Lunnan, R., Magnier, E., Milisavljevic, D., Sanders, N., Scolnic, D.

“…Photometric classification of supernovae (SNe) is imperative as recent and upcoming optical time-domain surveys, such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope…”
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A search for a surviving companion in SN 1006 by Kerzendorf, W E, Strampelli, G, Shen, K J, Schwab, J, Pakmor, R, Do, T, Buchner, J, Rest, A

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Electromagnetic evidence that SSS17a is the result of a binary neutron star merger by Kilpatrick, C. D., Foley, R. J., Kasen, D., Murguia-Berthier, A., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Coulter, D. A., Drout, M. R., Piro, A. L., Shappee, B. J., Boutsia, K., Contreras, C., Di Mille, F., Madore, B. F., Morrell, N., Pan, Y.-C., Prochaska, J. X., Rest, A., Rojas-Bravo, C., Siebert, M. R., Simon, J. D., Ulloa, N.

“…Eleven hours after the detection of gravitational wave source GW170817 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory and Virgo Interferometers, an…”
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THE ULTRAVIOLET-BRIGHT, SLOWLY DECLINING TRANSIENT PS1-11af AS A PARTIAL TIDAL DISRUPTION EVENT by CHORNOCK, R, Berger, E, Gezari, S, Zauderer, B A, Rest, A, CHOMIUK, L, Kamble, A, Soderberg, A M, CZEKALA, I, Dittmann, J

“…We present the Pan-STARRS1 discovery of the long-lived and blue transient PS1-11af, which was also detected by Galaxy Evolution Explorer with coordinated…”
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Should Type Ia Supernova Distances Be Corrected for Their Local Environments? by Jones, D. O., Riess, A. G., Scolnic, D. M., Pan, Y.-C., Johnson, E., Coulter, D. A., Dettman, K. G., Foley, M. M., Foley, R. J., Huber, M. E., Jha, S. W., Kilpatrick, C. D., Kirshner, R. P., Rest, A., Schultz, A. S. B., Siebert, M. R.

“…Recent analyses suggest that distance residuals measured from Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are correlated with local host galaxy properties within a few…”
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RAPIDLY EVOLVING AND LUMINOUS TRANSIENTS FROM PAN-STARRS1 by Drout, M R, CHORNOCK, R, Soderberg, A M, Sanders, N E, McKinnon, R, Rest, A, Foley, R J, Milisavljevic, D, Margutti, R, Berger, E

“…Here we present the results from a search within the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey (PS1-MDS) for rapidly evolving and luminous transients. We identify 10 new…”
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Measuring Dark Energy Properties with Photometrically Classified Pan-STARRS Supernovae. II. Cosmological Parameters by Jones, D. O., Scolnic, D. M., Riess, A. G., Rest, A., Kirshner, R. P., Berger, E., Kessler, R., Pan, Y.-C., Foley, R. J., Chornock, R., Ortega, C. A., Challis, P. J., Burgett, W. S., Chambers, K. C., Draper, P. W., Flewelling, H., Huber, M. E., Kaiser, N., Kudritzki, R.-P., Metcalfe, N., Tonry, J., Wainscoat, R. J., Waters, C., Gall, E. E. E., Kotak, R., McCrum, M., Smartt, S. J., Smith, K. W.

“…We use 1169 Pan-STARRS supernovae (SNe) and 195 low-z (z < 0.1) SNe Ia to measure cosmological parameters. Though most Pan-STARRS SNe lack spectroscopic…”
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The Type II-P Supernova 2019mhm and Constraints on its Progenitor System by Vazquez, J., Kilpatrick, C. D., Dimitriadis, G., Foley, R. J., Piro, A. L., Rest, A., Rojas-Bravo, C.

“…Abstract We present pre- and postexplosion observations of the Type II-P supernova (SN II-P) 2019mhm located in NGC 6753. Based on optical spectroscopy and…”
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Diffusion-limited current in organic metal-insulator-metal diodes by de Bruyn, P, van Rest, A H P, Wetzelaer, G A H, de Leeuw, D M, Blom, P W M

“…An analytical expression for the diffusion current in organic metal-insulator-metal diodes is derived. The derivation is based on the classical diffusion…”
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Observations of SN 2017ein Reveal Shock Breakout Emission and a Massive Progenitor Star for a Type Ic Supernova by Xiang, Danfeng, Wang, Xiaofeng, Mo, Jun, Wang, Lingjun, Smartt, Stephen, Fraser, Morgan, Ehgamberdiev, Shuhrat A., Mirzaqulov, Davron, Zhang, Jujia, Zhang, Tianmeng, Vinko, Jozsef, Wheeler, J. Craig, Hosseinzadeh, Griffin, Howell, D. Andrew, McCully, Curtis, DerKacy, James M, Baron, E., Brown, Peter, Zhang, Xianfei, Bi, Shaolan, Song, Hao, Zhang, Kaicheng, Rest, A., Nomoto, Ken'ichi, Tolstov, Alexey, Blinnikov, Sergei

“…We present optical and ultraviolet observations of nearby Type Ic supernova (SN Ic) SN 2017ein, as well as a detailed analysis of its progenitor properties…”
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HYDROGEN-POOR SUPERLUMINOUS SUPERNOVAE AND LONG-DURATION GAMMA-RAY BURSTS HAVE SIMILAR HOST GALAXIES by Lunnan, R, CHORNOCK, R, Berger, E, Laskar, T, Fong, W, Rest, A, Sanders, N E, Challis, P M, Drout, M R, Foley, R J

“…We present optical spectroscopy and optical/near-IR photometry of 31 host galaxies of hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe), including 15 events from…”
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CLUES TO THE NATURE OF SN 2009ip FROM PHOTOMETRIC AND SPECTROSCOPIC EVOLUTION TO LATE TIMES by Graham, M L, Sand, D J, Valenti, S, Howell, D A, Parrent, J, Halford, M, Zaritsky, D, Bianco, F, Rest, A, Dilday, B

“…We present time series photometric and spectroscopic data for the transient SN 2009ip from the start of its outburst in 2012 September until 2013 November…”
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A Luminous Transient Event in a Sample of WISE-selected Variable AGNs by Assef, R. J., Prieto, J. L., Stern, D., Cutri, R. M., Eisenhardt, P. R. M., Graham, M. J., Jun, H. D., Rest, A., Flewelling, H. A., Kaiser, N., Kudritzki, R.-P., Waters, C.

“…Recently Assef et al. presented two catalogs of active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidates over 30,093 deg2 selected from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer…”
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Machine learning for transient discovery in Pan-STARRS1 difference imaging by Wright, D. E., Smartt, S. J., Smith, K. W., Miller, P., Kotak, R., Rest, A., Burgett, W. S., Chambers, K. C., Flewelling, H., Hodapp, K. W., Huber, M., Jedicke, R., Kaiser, N., Metcalfe, N., Price, P. A., Tonry, J. L., Wainscoat, R. J., Waters, C.

“…Efficient identification and follow-up of astronomical transients is hindered by the need for humans to manually select promising candidates from data streams…”
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