Publications (7)
Night Vision for Small Telescopes
Robert Strausbaugh, Rebecca Jackson, Nat Butler
We explore the feasibility of using current generation, off-the-shelf, indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) near-infrared (NIR) detectors for astronomical observations. Light-weight In…
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…
HETE-2 Observations of the X-Ray Flash XRF 040916
Makoto Arimoto, Nobuyuki Kawai, Atsumasa Yoshida +43
A long X-ray flash was detected and localized by the instruments aboard the High Energy Transient Explorer II (HETE-2) at 00:03:30 UT on 2004 September 16. The position was reporte…
Multiple Component Analysis of Time Resolved Spectra of GRB041006: A Clue to the Nature of Underlying Soft Component of GRBs
Yuji Shirasaki, Atsumasa Yoshida, Nobuyuki Kawai +30
GRB 041006 was detected by HETE-2 at 12:18:08 UT on 06 October 2004. This GRB displays a soft X-ray emission, a precursor before the onset of the main event, and also a soft X-ray…
The Solar System Notification Alert Processing System (SNAPS): Design, Architecture, and First Data Release (SNAPShot1)
David E. Trilling, Michael Gowanlock, Daniel Kramer +4
We present here the design, architecture, and first data release for the Solar System Notification Alert Processing System (SNAPS). SNAPS is a Solar System broker that ingests aler…
An Optically Dark GRB Observed by HETE-2: GRB 051022
Yujin E. Nakagawa, Atsumasa Yoshida, Satoshi Sugita +33
GRB 051022 was detected at 13:07:58 on 22 October 2005 by HETE-2. The location of GRB 051022 was determined immediately by the flight localization system. This burst contains multi…
SN2010jp (PTF10aaxi): A Jet-Driven Type II Supernova
Nathan Smith, S. Bradley Cenko, Nat Butler +18
We present photometry and spectroscopy of the peculiar TypeII supernova (SN) 2010jp, also named PTF10aaxi. The light curve exhibits a linear decline with a relatively low peak abso…