Search Results - "ZOLKOWER, Jeff"
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The Palomar Transient Factory: System Overview, Performance, and First Results
Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (01-12-2009)“…The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is a fully-automated, wide-field survey aimed at a systematic exploration of the optical transient sky. The transient…”
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Core-collapse Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory: Indications for a Different Population in Dwarf Galaxies
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-09-2010)“…We use the first compilation of 72 core-collapse supernovae (SNe) from the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) to study their observed subtype distribution in…”
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Evidence for an FU Orionis-like Outburst from a Classical T Tauri Star
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2011)“…We present pre- and post-outburst observations of the new FU Orionis-like young stellar object PTF 10qpf (also known as LkH Delta *a 188-G4 and HBC 722). Prior…”
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Aperture Photometry Tool Versus SExtractor for Noncrowded Fields
Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (01-07-2012)“…ABSTRACT Outputs from new software program Aperture Photometry Tool (APT) are compared with similar outputs from SExtractor for sources extracted from R-band…”
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PTF 10fqs: A Luminous Red Nova in the Spiral Galaxy Messier 99
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2011)“…The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is systematically charting the optical transient and variable sky. A primary science driver of PTF is building a complete…”
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RAPIDLY DECAYING SUPERNOVA 2010X: A CANDIDATE .Ia EXPLOSION
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Know The Star, Know the Planet. IV. A Stellar Companion to the Host star of the Eccentric Exoplanet HD 8673b
Published 26-02-2015“…HD 8673 hosts a massive exoplanet in a highly eccentric orbit (e=0.723). Based on two epochs of speckle interferometry a previous publication identified a…”
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Robo-AO: An Autonomous Laser Adaptive Optics and Science System
Published 04-12-2012“…Adaptive Optics: Methods, Analysis and Applications, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2011), paper AWA2 Robo-AO, a fully autonomous,…”
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Evidence for an FU Orionis-like Outburst from a Classical T Tauri Star
Published 26-01-2011“…We present pre- and post-outburst observations of the new FU Orionis-like young stellar object PTF 10qpf (also known as LkHa 188-G4 and HBC 722). Prior to this…”
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PTF10nvg: An Outbursting Class I Protostar in the Pelican/North American Nebula
Published 13-11-2010“…During a synoptic survey of the North American Nebula region, the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) detected an optical outburst (dubbed PTF10nvg) associated…”
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PTF10fqs: A Luminous Red Nova in the Spiral Galaxy Messier 99
Published 27-03-2011“…Astrophysical Journal 730 (2011) 134 The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is systematically charting the optical transient and variable sky. A primary science…”
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Core-Collapse Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory: Indications for a Different Population in Dwarf Galaxies
Published 29-07-2010“…We use the first compilation of 72 core-collapse supernovae (SNe) from the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) to study their observed subtype distribution in…”
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Rapidly Decaying Supernova 2010X: A Candidate ".Ia" Explosion
Published 16-11-2010“…Astrophysical Journal Letters 723 (2010) L98-L102 We present the discovery, photometric and spectroscopic follow-up observations of SN 2010X (PTF 10bhp). This…”
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