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astro-ph.IM2014★ 52 cited

Photometric brown-dwarf classification. I. A method to identify and accurately classify large samples of brown dwarfs without spectroscopy

Nathalie Skrzypek, Stephen J. Warren, Jacqueline K. Faherty +3

Aims. We present a method, named photo-type, to identify and accurately classify L and T dwarfs onto the standard spectral classification system using photometry alone. This enable…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 47 cited

Modelling the Transfer Function for the Dark Energy Survey

C. Chang, M. T. Busha, R. H. Wechsler +40

We present a forward-modelling simulation framework designed to model the data products from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). This forward-model process can be thought of as a transfe…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 204 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Technical Overview

Yue Shen, W. N. Brandt, Kyle S. Dawson +36

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping project (SDSS-RM) is a dedicated multi-object RM experiment that has spectroscopically monitored a sample of 849 broad-line quasa…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 15 cited

Mass production of volume phase holographic gratings for the VIRUS spectrograph array

Taylor S. Chonis, Amy Frantz, Gary J. Hill +7

The Visible Integral-field Replicable Unit Spectrograph (VIRUS) is a baseline array of 150 copies of a simple, fiber-fed integral field spectrograph that will be deployed on the Ho…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 49 cited

MagAO: Status and on-sky performance of the Magellan adaptive optics system

Katie M. Morzinski, Laird M. Close, Jared R. Males +19

MagAO is the new adaptive optics system with visible-light and infrared science cameras, located on the 6.5-m Magellan "Clay" telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. The inst…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 192 cited

APF - The Lick Observatory Automated Planet Finder

Steven S. Vogt, Matthew Radovan, Robert Kibrick +45

The Automated Planet Finder (APF) is a facility purpose-built for the discovery and characterization of extrasolar planets through high-cadence Doppler velocimetry of the reflex ba…