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20192026
most citedGROWTH on S190425z: Searching thousands of square degrees to identify an optical or infrared counterpart to a binary neutron star merger with the Zwicky Transient Facility and Palomar Gattini IR

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astro-ph.IM2026

A data processing pipeline for the WINTER near-infrared surveyor using the framework

Viraj Karambelkar, Robert Stein, Danielle Frostig +18

We present the data reduction and transient detection pipeline for the Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) surveyor and report its on-sky performance. The WINTER camera…

astro-ph.SR2025

A spectral library and census of near-infrared stellar large-amplitude variables from Palomar Gattini-IR

Nicholas Earley, Viraj Karambelkar, Mansi Kasliwal +9

We present a near-infrared census of stellar large-amplitude variables (LAVs) observed by the Palomar Gattini-IR (PGIR) surveyor from 2019-2021. Over the three-year time period, PG…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 3 cited

Oxygen Isotope Ratios in Hydrogen-Deficient Carbon Stars: A Correlation with Effective Temperature and Implications for White Dwarf Merger Outcomes

Advait Mehla, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Viraj Karambelkar +5

Hydrogen-deficient Carbon (HdC) stars are a class of supergiants with anomalous chemical compositions, suggesting that they are remnants of CO-He white dwarf (WD) mergers. This cla…

astro-ph.SR2024

Possible anti-correlations between pulsation amplitudes and the disk growth of Be stars in giant-outbursting Be X-ray binaries

Masafumi Niwano, Michael M. Fausnaugh, Ryan M. Lau +15

The mechanism of X-ray outbursts in Be X-ray binaries remains a mystery, and understanding their circumstellar disks is crucial for a solution of the mass-transfer problem. In part…

astro-ph.SR2024

An infrared census of R Coronae Borealis Stars II -- Spectroscopic classifications and implications for the rate of low-mass white dwarf mergers

Viraj R. Karambelkar, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Patrick Tisserand +18

We present results from a systematic infrared (IR) census of R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars in the Milky Way, using data from the Palomar Gattini IR (PGIR) survey. R Coronae Boreal…

astro-ph.SR2024

An Automated Catalog of Long Period Variables using Infrared Lightcurves from Palomar Gattini-IR

Aswin Suresh, Viraj Karambelkar, Mansi M. Kasliwal +8

Stars in the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) phase, dominated by low to intermediate-mass stars in the late stage of evolution, undergo periodic pulsations, with periods of several h…