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SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME AT THE GALACTIC BAR: CHAOTIC FANNING OF THE OPHIUCHUS STREAM by Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Sesar, Branimir, Johnston, Kathryn V., Rix, Hans-Walter

“…ABSTRACT The Ophiuchus stellar stream is peculiar: (1) its length is short given the age of its constituent stars, and (2) several probable member stars have…”
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A Disk Origin for the Monoceros Ring and A13 Stellar Overdensities by Sheffield, Allyson A., Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Tzanidakis, Anastasios, Johnston, Kathryn V., Laporte, Chervin F. P., Sesar, Branimir

“…The Monoceros Ring (also known as the Galactic Anticenter Stellar Structure) and A13 are stellar overdensities at estimated heliocentric distances of d ∼ 11…”
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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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Census of the Local Universe (CLU) Narrowband Survey. I. Galaxy Catalogs from Preliminary Fields by Cook, David O., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Sistine, Angela Van, Kaplan, David L., Sutter, Jessica S., Kupfer, Thomas, Shupe, David L., Laher, Russ R., Masci, Frank J., Dale, Daniel A., Sesar, Branimir, Brady, Patrick R., Yan, Lin, Ofek, Eran O., Reitze, David H., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.

“…We present the Census of the Local Universe (CLU) narrowband survey to search for emission-line (H ) galaxies. CLU-H has imaged 3π of the sky (26,470 deg2)…”
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DISK-RELATED BURSTS AND FADES IN YOUNG STARS by Findeisen, Krzysztof, Hillenbrand, Lynne, Ofek, Eran, Levitan, David, SESAR, BRANIMIR, Laher, Russ, Surace, Jason

“…We present first results from a new, multiyear, time domain survey of young stars in the North America Nebula complex using the Palomar Transient Factory. Our…”
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Solving the puzzle of discrepant quasar variability on monthly time-scales implied by SDSS and CRTS data sets by Suberlak, Krzysztof, Ivezić, Željko, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Graham, Matthew, Sesar, Branimir

“…Abstract We present an improved photometric error analysis for the 7 100 CRTS (Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey) optical light curves for quasars from the…”
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IPAC Image Processing and Data Archiving for the Palomar Transient Factory by Laher, Russ R., Surace, Jason, Grillmair, Carl J., Ofek, Eran O., Levitan, David, Sesar, Branimir, van Eyken, Julian C., Law, Nicholas M., Helou, George, Hamam, Nouhad, Masci, Frank J., Mattingly, Sean, Jackson, Ed, Hacopeans, Eugean, Mi, Wei, Groom, Steve, Teplitz, Harry, Desai, Vandana, Hale, David, Smith, Roger, Walters, Richard, Quimby, Robert, Kasliwal, Mansi, Horesh, Assaf, Bellm, Eric, Barlow, Tom, Waszczak, Adam, Prince, Thomas A., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.

“…The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is a multiepochal robotic survey of the northern sky that acquires data for the scientific study of transient and variable…”
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Light Curve Templates and Galactic Distribution of RR Lyrae Stars from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82 by Sesar, Branimir, Ivezić, Željko, Grammer, Skyler H, Morgan, Dylan P, Becker, Andrew C, Jurić, Mario, De Lee, Nathan, Annis, James, Beers, Timothy C, Fan, Xiaohui, Lupton, Robert H, Gunn, James E, Knapp, Gillian R, Jiang, Linhua, Jester, Sebastian, Johnston, David E, Lampeitl, Hubert

“…We present an improved analysis of halo substructure traced by RR Lyrae stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) stripe 82 region. With the addition of…”
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DISCOVERY OF A COSMOLOGICAL, RELATIVISTIC OUTBURST VIA ITS RAPIDLY FADING OPTICAL EMISSION by Cenko, S Bradley, Kulkarni, S R, Horesh, Assaf, Corsi, Alessandra, Fox, Derek B, Carpenter, John, Frail, Dale A, Nugent, Peter E, Perley, Daniel A, Gruber, D

“…We report the discovery by the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) of the transient source PTF11agg, which is distinguished by three primary characteristics: (1)…”
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Disk Heating, Galactoseismology, and the Formation of Stellar Halos by Johnston, Kathryn, Price-Whelan, Adrian, Bergemann, Maria, Laporte, Chervin, Li, Ting, Sheffield, Allyson, Majewski, Steven, Beaton, Rachael, Sesar, Branimir, Sharma, Sanjib

“…Deep photometric surveys of the Milky Way have revealed diffuse structures encircling our Galaxy far beyond the “classical” limits of the stellar disk. This…”
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The Shape and Profile of the Milky Way Halo as Seen by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey by Sesar, Branimir, Jurić, Mario, Ivezić, Željko

“…We use Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey data for 170 deg2, recalibrated and transformed to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ugri photometric system, to…”
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313 NEW ASTEROID ROTATION PERIODS FROM PALOMAR TRANSIENT FACTORY OBSERVATIONS by Chang, Chan-Kao, Ip, Wing-Huen, Lin, Hsing-Wen, Cheng, Yu-Chi, Ngeow, Chow-Choong, Yang, Ting-Chang, Waszczak, Adam, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Levitan, David, Sesar, Branimir, Laher, Russ, Surace, Jason, Prince, Thomas. A.

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THE RADIAL PROFILE AND FLATTENING OF THE MILKY WAY'S STELLAR HALO TO 80 kpc FROM THE SEGUE K-GIANT SURVEY by Xue, Xiang-Xiang, Rix, Hans-Walter, Ma, Zhibo, Morrison, Heather, Bovy, Jo, Sesar, Branimir, Janesh, William

“…ABSTRACT We characterize the radial density, metallicity, and flattening profile of the Milky Way's stellar halo, based on the large sample of…”
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Candidate Disk Wide Binaries in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey by Sesar, Branimir, Ivezić, Željko, Jurić, Mario

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MULTI-WAVELENGTH CHARACTERIZATION OF STELLAR FLARES ON LOW-MASS STARS USING SDSS AND 2MASS TIME-DOMAIN SURVEYS by DAVENPORT, James R. A, BECKER, Andrew C, KOWALSKI, Adam F, HAWLEY, Suzanne L, SCHMIDT, Sarah J, HILTON, Eric J, SESAR, Branimir, CUTRI, Roc

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METAL ABUNDANCES, RADIAL VELOCITIES, AND OTHER PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR THE RR LYRAE STARS IN THE KEPLER FIELD by Nemec, James M, Cohen, Judith G, Ripepi, Vincenzo, Derekas, Aliz, Moskalik, Pawel, SESAR, BRANIMIR, CHADID, MERIEME, BRUNTT, HANS

“…Spectroscopic iron-to-hydrogen ratios, radial velocities, atmospheric parameters, and new photometric analyses are presented for 41 RR Lyrae stars (and one…”
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A DESCRIPTION OF QUASAR VARIABILITY MEASURED USING REPEATED SDSS AND POSS IMAGING by MACLEOD, Chelsea L, IVEZIC, Zeljko, ANDERSON, Scott F, SCHNEIDER, Donald P, SESAR, Branimir, DE VRIES, Wim, KOCHANEK, Christopher S, KELLY, Brandon C, BECKER, Andrew C, LUPTON, Robert H, HALL, Patrick B, RICHARDS, Gordon T

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SAGITTARIUS II, DRACO II AND LAEVENS 3: THREE NEW MILKY WAY SATELLITES DISCOVERED IN THE PAN-STARRS 1 3 π SURVEY by Laevens, Benjamin P. M., Martin, Nicolas F., Bernard, Edouard J., Schlafly, Edward F., Sesar, Branimir, Rix, Hans-Walter, Bell, Eric F., Ferguson, Annette M. N., Slater, Colin T., Sweeney, William E., Wyse, Rosemary F. G., Huxor, Avon P., Burgett, William S., Chambers, Kenneth C., Draper, Peter W., Hodapp, Klaus A., Kaiser, Nicholas, Magnier, Eugene A., Metcalfe, Nigel, Tonry, John L., Wainscoat, Richard J., Waters, Christopher

“…We present the discovery of three new Milky Way satellites from our search for compact stellar overdensities in the photometric catalog of the Panoramic Survey…”
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A reinterpretation of the Triangulum–Andromeda stellar clouds: a population of halo stars kicked out of the Galactic disc by Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Johnston, Kathryn V., Sheffield, Allyson A., Laporte, Chervin F. P., Sesar, Branimir

“…The Triangulum–Andromeda stellar clouds (TriAnd1 and TriAnd2) are a pair of concentric ring- or shell-like overdensities at large R (≈30 kpc) and Z (≈−10 kpc)…”
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Two chemically similar stellar overdensities on opposite sides of the plane of the Galactic disk by Bergemann, Maria, Sesar, Branimir, Cohen, Judith G., Serenelli, Aldo M., Sheffield, Allyson, Li, Ting S., Casagrande, Luca, Johnston, Kathryn V., Laporte, Chervin F. P., Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Schönrich, Ralph, Gould, Andrew

“…Fourteen stars from stellar overdensities above and below the Galactic disk have the same elemental abundances as disk stars, suggesting that these stars…”
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