Publications (11)
Astro2010 Decadal Survey Whitepaper: Coordinated Science in the Gravitational and Electromagnetic Skies
Joshua S. Bloom, Daniel E. Holz, Scott A. Hughes +37
It is widely expected that the coming decade will witness the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs). The ground-based LIGO and Virgo GW observatories are being upgrad…
Infrared Period-Luminosity Relations of Evolved Variable Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud
David Riebel, Margaret Meixner, Oliver Fraser +3
We combine variability information from the MAssive Compact Halo Objects (MACHO) survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) with infrared photometry from the Spitzer Space Telescop…
Eclipsing binary stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds from the MACHO project: The Sample
Lorenzo Faccioli, Charles Alcock, Kem Cook +3
We present a new sample of 4634 eclipsing binary stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), expanding on a previous sample of 611 objects and a new sample of 1509 eclipsing binary…
Internal Kinematics of the Andromeda II Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
Patrick Cote, Mario Mateo, Edward Olszewski +1
The High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer on the Keck I telescope has been used to measure nine radial velocities having a median precision of 2 km/s for seven red giants belonging…
LIFTS: an Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrograph for Astronomy
Ron Wurtz, Edward Wishnow, Sébastien Blais-Ouellette +5
We present the first astronomical observations of the Livermore Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrograph for visible-band astronomy using the 3.5-meter Apache Point Observatory.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope as a Near-Earth Object Discovery Machine
R. Lynne Jones, Colin T. Slater, Joachim Moeyens +7
Using the most recent prototypes, design, and as-built system information, we test and quantify the capability of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to discover Potentially…
The Synoptic All-Sky Infrared (SASIR) Survey
Joshua S. Bloom, J. Xavier Prochaska, William Lee +42
We are proposing to conduct a multicolor, synoptic infrared (IR) imaging survey of the Northern sky with a new, dedicated 6.5-meter telescope at San Pedro Mártir (SPM) Observatory…
Post Main Sequence Orbital Circularization of Binary Stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
Lorenzo Faccioli, Charles Alcock, Kem Cook
We present results from a study of the orbits of eclipsing binary stars (EBs) in the Magellanic Clouds. The samples comprise 4510 EBs found in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by t…
Science-Driven Optimization of the LSST Observing Strategy
LSST Science Collaboration, Phil Marshall, Timo Anguita +102
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is designed to provide an unprecedented optical imaging dataset that will support investigations of our Solar System, Galaxy and Universe, acros…
Lightcurves of Type Ia Supernovae from Near the Time of Explosion
Arti Garg, Christopher W. Stubbs, Peter Challis +18
We present a set of 11 type Ia supernova (SN Ia) lightcurves with dense, pre-maximum sampling. These supernovae (SNe), in galaxies behind the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), were dis…
The Large-Scale Extinction Map of the Galactic Bulge from the MACHO Project Photometry
Piotr Popowski, Kem Cook, Andrew Becker
We present a (V-R)-based reddening map of about 43 square degrees of the Galactic bulge/bar. The map is constructed using template image photometry from the MACHO microlensing surv…