2 papers
astro-ph.SR2020
Witnessing History: Rates and Detectability of Naked-Eye Milky-Way Supernovae
C. Tanner Murphey, Jacob W. Hogan, Brian D. Fields +1
The Milky Way hosts on average a few supernova explosions per century, yet in the past millennium only five supernovae have been identified confidently in the historical record. Th…
astro-ph.GA2018
The Plane's The Thing: The Case for Wide-Fast-Deep Coverage of the Galactic Plane and Bulge
Jay Strader, Elias Aydi, Christopher Britt +21
We argue that the exclusion of the Galactic Plane and Bulge from the uniform wide-fast-deep (WFD) LSST survey cadence is fundamentally inconsistent with two of the main science dri…