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astro-ph.HE2024
The MOST Hosts Survey: spectroscopic observation of the host galaxies of ~40,000 transients using DESI
Maayane T. Soumagnac, Peter Nugent, Robert A. Knop +54
We present the MOST Hosts survey (Multi-Object Spectroscopy of Transient Hosts). The survey is planned to run throughout the five years of operation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopi…
astro-ph.IM2022
Identifying Transients in the Dark Energy Survey using Convolutional Neural Networks
Venkitesh Ayyar, Robert Knop, Autumn Awbrey +2
The ability to discover new transients via image differencing without direct human intervention is an important task in observational astronomy. For these kind of image classificat…
astro-ph.IM2022
Deep Drilling in the Time Domain with DECam: Survey Characterization
Melissa L. Graham, Robert A. Knop, Thomas Kennedy +41
This paper presents a new optical imaging survey of four deep drilling fields (DDFs), two Galactic and two extragalactic, with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the 4 meter Blanco…