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The ATLAS All-Sky Stellar Reference Catalog by Tonry, J. L., Denneau, L., Flewelling, H., Heinze, A. N., Onken, C. A., Smartt, S. J., Stalder, B., Weiland, H. J., Wolf, C.

“…The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) observes most of the sky every night in search of dangerous asteroids. Its data are also used to…”
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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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Discovery and follow-up of ASASSN-19dj: an X-ray and UV luminous TDE in an extreme post-starburst galaxy by Hinkle, Jason T, Holoien, T W-S, Auchettl, K, Shappee, B J, Neustadt, J M M, Payne, A V, Brown, J S, Kochanek, C S, Stanek, K Z, Graham, M J, Tucker, M A, Do, A, Anderson, J P, Bose, S, Chen, P, Coulter, D A, Dimitriadis, G, Dong, Subo, Foley, R J, Huber, M E, Hung, T, Kilpatrick, C D, Pignata, G, Piro, A L, Rojas-Bravo, C, Siebert, M R, Stalder, B, Thompson, Todd A, Tonry, J L, Vallely, P J, Wisniewski, J P

“…ABSTRACT We present observations of ASASSN-19dj, a nearby tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered in the post-starburst galaxy KUG 0810+227 by the All-Sky…”
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COSMOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS FROM MEASUREMENTS OF TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE DISCOVERED DURING THE FIRST 1.5 yr OF THE Pan-STARRS1 SURVEY by Rest, A, SCOLNIC, D, Foley, R J, Huber, M E, CHORNOCK, R, Narayan, G, Tonry, J L, Berger, E, Soderberg, A M, Stubbs, C W

“…We present griz sub(P1) light curves of 146 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia; 0.03 < z < 0.65) discovered during the first 1.5 yr of the…”
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An ultraviolet–optical flare from the tidal disruption of a helium-rich stellar core by Gezari, S., Chornock, R., Rest, A., Huber, M. E., Forster, K., Berger, E., Challis, P. J., Neill, J. D., Martin, D. C., Heckman, T., Lawrence, A., Norman, C., Narayan, G., Foley, R. J., Marion, G. H., Scolnic, D., Chomiuk, L., Soderberg, A., Smith, K., Kirshner, R. P., Riess, A. G., Smartt, S. J., Stubbs, C. W., Tonry, J. L., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Burgett, W. S., Chambers, K. C., Grav, T., Heasley, J. N., Kaiser, N., Kudritzki, R.-P., Magnier, E. A., Morgan, J. S., Price, P. A.

“…The observation of a flare of radiation from the centre of an inactive galaxy fits a model of the tidal disruption of a helium-rich stellar core and its…”
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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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A SEARCH FOR FAST OPTICAL TRANSIENTS IN THE Pan-STARRS1 MEDIUM-DEEP SURVEY: M-DWARF FLARES, ASTEROIDS, LIMITS ON EXTRAGALACTIC RATES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LSST by Berger, E, Leibler, C N, CHORNOCK, R, Rest, A, Foley, R J, Soderberg, A M, Price, P A, Burgett, W S, Chambers, K C, Flewelling, H, Huber, M E, Magnier, E A, Metcalfe, N, Stubbs, C W, Tonry, J L

“…We present a search for fast optical transients ([tau] ~ 0.5 hr-1 day) using repeated observations of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey (PS1/MDS) fields. Our…”
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First Results from Pan-STARRS1: Faint, High Proper Motion White Dwarfs in the Medium-Deep Fields by Tonry, J. L, Stubbs, C. W, Kilic, M, Flewelling, H. A, Deacon, N. R, Chornock, R, Berger, E, Burgett, W. S, Chambers, K. C, Kaiser, N, Kudritzki, R.-P, Hodapp, K. W, Magnier, E. A, Morgan, J. S, Price, P. A, Wainscoat, R. J

“…The Pan-STARRS1 survey has obtained multi-epoch imaging in five bands (Pan-STARRS1 g sub(P1), r sub(P1), i sub(P1), z sub(P1), and y sub(P1)) on 12…”
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Optical confirmation and redshift estimation of the Planck cluster candidates overlapping the Pan-STARRS Survey by Liu, J., Hennig, C., Desai, S., Hoyle, B., Koppenhoefer, J., Mohr, J. J., Paech, K., Burgett, W. S., Chambers, K. C., Cole, S., Draper, P. W., Kaiser, N., Metcalfe, N., Morgan, J. S., Price, P. A., Stubbs, C. W., Tonry, J. L., Wainscoat, R. J., Waters, C.

“…We report results of a study of Planck Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect selected galaxy cluster candidates using the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response…”
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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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Time Dilation in Type Ia Supernova Spectra at High Redshift by Blondin, S, Davis, T. M, Krisciunas, K, Schmidt, B. P, Sollerman, J, Wood-Vasey, W. M, Becker, A. C, Challis, P, Clocchiatti, A, Damke, G, Filippenko, A. V, Foley, R. J, Garnavich, P. M, Jha, S. W, Kirshner, R. P, Leibundgut, B, Li, W, Matheson, T, Miknaitis, G, Narayan, G, Pignata, G, Rest, A, Riess, A. G, Silverman, J. M, Smith, R. C, Spyromilio, J, Stritzinger, M, Stubbs, C. W, Suntzeff, N. B, Tonry, J. L, Tucker, B. E, Zenteno, A

“…We present multiepoch spectra of 13 high-redshift Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) drawn from the literature, the ESSENCE and SNLS projects, and our own separate…”
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A synthesis of data from fundamental plane and surface brightness fluctuation surveys by Blakeslee, John P., Lucey, John R., Barris, Brian J., Hudson, Michael J., Tonry, John L.

“…We perform a series of comparisons between distance-independent photometric and spectroscopic properties used in the surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) and…”
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THE Pan-STARRS1 PHOTOMETRIC SYSTEM by TONRY, J. L, STUBBS, C. W, MAGNIER, E. A, MORGAN, J. S, PRICE, P. A, WAINSCOAT, R. J, LYKKE, K. R, DOHERTY, P, SHIVVERS, I. S, BURGETT, W. S, CHAMBERS, K. C, HODAPP, K. W, KAISER, N, KUDRITZKI, R.-P

“…The Pan-STARRS1 survey is collecting multi-epoch, multi-color observations of the sky north of declination -30 Degree-Sign to unprecedented depths. These data…”
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A LARGE CATALOG OF ACCURATE DISTANCES TO MOLECULAR CLOUDS FROM PS1 PHOTOMETRY by Schlafly, E F, Green, G, Finkbeiner, D P, Rix, H-W, Bell, E F, Burgett, W S, Chambers, K C, Draper, P W, Hodapp, K W, Kaiser, N, Magnier, E A, Martin, N F, Metcalfe, N, Price, P A, Tonry, J L

“…Distance measurements to molecular clouds are important but are often made separately for each cloud of interest, employing very different data and techniques…”
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TOWARD CHARACTERIZATION OF THE TYPE IIP SUPERNOVA PROGENITOR POPULATION: A STATISTICAL SAMPLE OF LIGHT CURVES FROM Pan-STARRS1 by Sanders, N. E., Soderberg, A. M., Gezari, S., Betancourt, M., Chornock, R., Berger, E., Foley, R. J., Challis, P., Drout, M., Kirshner, R. P., Lunnan, R., Marion, G. H., Margutti, R., McKinnon, R., Milisavljevic, D., Narayan, G., Rest, A., Kankare, E., Mattila, S., Smartt, S. J., Huber, M. E., Burgett, W. S., Draper, P.W., Hodapp, K. W., Kaiser, N., Kudritzki, R. P., Magnier, E. A., Metcalfe, N., Morgan, J. S., Price, P. A., Tonry, J. L., Wainscoat, R. J., Waters, C.

“…In recent years, wide-field sky surveys providing deep multiband imaging have presented a new path for indirectly characterizing the progenitor populations of…”
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SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE COSMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST PAN-STARRS1 TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA SAMPLE by SCOLNIC, D, Rest, A, Riess, A, Huber, M E, Foley, R J, BROUT, D, CHORNOCK, R, Narayan, G, Tonry, J L, Berger, E

“…We probe the systematic uncertainties from the 113 Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) in the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) sample along with 197 SN Ia from a combination of…”
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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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Discovery of superslow rotating asteroids with ATLAS and ZTF photometry by Erasmus, N, Kramer, D, McNeill, A, Trilling, D E, Janse van Rensburg, P, van Belle, G T, Tonry, J L, Denneau, L, Heinze, A, Weiland, H J

“…ABSTRACT We present here the discovery of a new class of superslow rotating asteroids (Prot ≳1000 h) in data extracted from the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact…”
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TESS shines light on the origin of the ambiguous nuclear transient ASASSN-18el by Hinkle, Jason T, Kochanek, Christopher S, Shappee, Benjamin J, Vallely, Patrick J, Auchettl, Katie, Fausnaugh, Michael, Holoien, Thomas W-S, Treiber, Helena P, Payne, Anna V, Gaudi, B Scott, Stassun, Keivan G, Thompson, Todd A, Tonry, J L, Villanueva, Steven

“…ABSTRACT We analyse high-cadence data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) of the ambiguous nuclear transient (ANT) ASASSN-18el. The optical…”
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PS18kh: A New Tidal Disruption Event with a Non-axisymmetric Accretion Disk by Holoien, T. W.-S., Huber, M. E., Shappee, B. J., Eracleous, M., Auchettl, K., Brown, J. S., Tucker, M. A., Chambers, K. C., Kochanek, C. S., Stanek, K. Z., Rest, A., Bersier, D., Post, R. S., Aldering, G., Ponder, K. A., Simon, J. D., Kankare, E., Dong, D., Hallinan, G., Reddy, N. A., Sanders, R. L., Topping, M. W., Bulger, J., Lowe, T. B., Magnier, E. A., Schultz, A. S. B., Waters, C. Z., Willman, M., Wright, D., Young, D. R., Dong, Subo, Prieto, J. L., Thompson, Todd A., Denneau, L., Flewelling, H., Heinze, A. N., Smartt, S. J., Smith, K. W., Stalder, B., Tonry, J. L., Weiland, H.

“…We present the discovery of PS18kh, a tidal disruption event discovered at the center of SDSS J075654.53+341543.6 (d 322 Mpc) by the Pan-STARRS Survey for…”
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