3 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…
math.NA2020
Fast localization of eigenfunctions via smoothed potentials
Jianfeng Lu, Cody Murphey, Stefan Steinerberger
We study the problem of predicting highly localized low-lying eigenfunctions in bounded domains for rapidly varying potentials . Filoche &…
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…