3 papers
physics.hist-ph2026
The comets discovered from New Zealand, and the astronomers who found them
John Drummond, Wayne Orchiston, Carolyn Brown +1
Eleven comets were discovered by six New Zealanders from New Zealand shores. New Zealand's important geographical position south of the Equator is highlighted. This location allows…
physics.hist-ph2025
The Great January Comet of 1910 (C/1910 A1): A Key Opportunity Missed by New Zealand Astronomers
John Drummond, Wayne Orchiston, Carolyn Brown +1
C/1910 A1 was one of the Great Comets of the twentieth century. Although it was widely observed from the Northern Hemisphere, it was first discovered by observers south of the Equa…
astro-ph.SR2019
OGLE-2017-BLG-1186: first application of asteroseismology and Gaussian processes to microlensing
Shun-Sheng Li, Weicheng Zang, Andrzej Udalski +102
We present the analysis of the event OGLE-2017-BLG-1186 from the 2017 Spitzer microlensing campaign. This is a remarkable microlensing event because its source is photometrically b…