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most citedThe MACHO Project: Microlensing Results from 5.7 Years of LMC Observations

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astro-ph.IM2026

Attaining Spectral Energy Distributions With Sub-Percent Uncertainties: All-Sky DA White Dwarf Spectrophotometric Standard Stars For Large Telescopes And Surveys

Abhijit Saha, Edward W. Olszewski, Benjamin M. Boyd +14

We present a synopsis of the project to establish thirty-two new faint () DA white dwarfs as spectrophotometric standards distributed over the whole sky. O…

astro-ph.IM2025

The La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey

Adam A. Miller, Natasha S. Abrams, Greg Aldering +75

We present the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4), a new wide-field, time-domain survey to be conducted with the 1 m ESO Schmidt telescope. The 268 megapixel LS4 camera mosaics…

astro-ph2008★ 7 cited

Parametrization and Classification of 20 Billion LSST Objects: Lessons from SDSS

Z. Ivezic, T. Axelrod, A. C. Becker

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be a large, wide-field ground-based system designed to obtain, starting in 2015, multiple images of the sky that is visible from Cer…

astro-ph2005★ 214 cited

Testing LMC Microlensing Scenarios: The Discrimination Power of the SuperMACHO Microlensing Survey

A. Rest, C. Stubbs, A. C. Becker +18

Characterizing the nature and spatial distribution of the lensing objects that produce the previously measured microlensing optical depth toward the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) re…

astro-ph2004★ 31 cited

Galactic Bulge Microlensing Events from the MACHO Collaboration

C. L. Thomas, K. Griest, P. Popowski +21

We present a catalog of 450 high signal-to-noise microlensing events observed by the MACHO collaboration between 1993 and 1999. The events are distributed throughout our fields and…

astro-ph2004★ 6 cited

The SuperMACHO Microlensing Survey

A. C. Becker, A. Rest, C. Stubbs +18

We present the first results from our next-generation microlensing survey, the SuperMACHO project. We are using the CTIO 4m Blanco telescope and the MOSAIC imager to carry out a se…