Publications (10)
AT2018lqh and the nature of the emerging population of day-scale duration optical transients
E. O. Ofek, S. M. Adams, E. Waxman +18
We report on the discovery of AT2018lqh (ZTF18abfzgpl) -- a rapidly-evolving extra-galactic transient in a star-forming host at 242 Mpc. The transient g-band light curve's duration…
Asteroid collisions: expected visibility and rate
E. O. Ofek, D. Polishook, D. Kushnir +9
Asteroid collisions are one of the main processes responsible for the evolution of bodies in the main belt. Using observations of the Dimorphos impact by the DART spacecraft, we es…
From Particles to Policy: Technical Building Blocks for Multi-State SAI Coordination
R. Yahav, A. Spector, D. Kushnir +1
Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is a solar radiation modification technique, proposed as an interim measure to offset warming while greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are reduced…
Resolving the explosion of supernova 2023ixf in Messier 101 within its complex circumstellar environment
E. A. Zimmerman, I. Irani, P. Chen +54
Observing a supernova explosion shortly after it occurs can reveal important information about the physics of stellar explosions and the nature of the progenitor stars of supernova…
ULTRASAT: A wide-field time-domain UV space telescope
Y. Shvartzvald, E. Waxman, A. Gal-Yam +41
The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) is scheduled to be launched to geostationary orbit in 2026. It will carry a telescope with an unprecedentedly large field o…
Photometric prioritization of neutron star merger candidates
E. O. Ofek, N L. Strotjohann, I. Arcavi +12
Rapid identification of the optical counterparts of Neutron Star (NS) merger events discovered by gravitational wave detectors may require observing a large error region and siftin…