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most citedCataclysmic Variables in the Second Year of the Zwicky Transient Facility

16 citations · 38 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Early Exploration of the Scientific Discovery Space for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Courtney D. Dressing, Danica Adams, Evelyne Alecian +324

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a future NASA flagship mission concept identified by the Astro2020 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for large space missions. HWO sh…

astro-ph.HE2025

HST Deep Upper Limits Rule Out a Surviving Massive Binary Companion to the Type Ic Supernova 2012fh

Benjamin F. Williams, Emmanouil Zapartas, Ori D. Fox +19

Current explanations of the mass-loss mechanism for stripped-envelope supernovae remain divided between single and binary progenitor systems. Here we obtain deep ultraviolet (UV) i…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 2 cited

The Mass of the Vela Pulsar Progenitor and the Age of the Vela-Puppis Complex

Jeremiah W. Murphy, Andres F. Barrientos, Rene Andrae +4

The association of the Vela Pulsar with the Vela Supernova Remnant has long supported the hypothesis that core-collapse supernovae yield neutron stars, but its surrounding stellar…

astro-ph.CO2024

Investigating Ionization in the Intergalactic Medium

Brad Koplitz, Anjali Ramesh, Sanchayeeta Borthakur

The Intergalactic Medium (IGM) contains 50% of the baryonic mass of the Universe, yet the mechanisms responsible for keeping the IGM ionized has not been fully explained. Hence,…

astro-ph.HE2023

Considering the Single and Binary Origins of the Type IIP SN 2017eaw

K. Azalee Bostroem, Emmanouil Zapartas, Brad Koplitz +3

Current population synthesis modeling suggests that 30-50% of Type II supernovae originate from binary progenitors, however, the identification of a binary progenitor is challengin…

astro-ph.GA2023

Constraining Circumgalactic Turbulence with QSO Absorption-line Measurements

Brad Koplitz, Edward Buie, Evan Scannapieco

Our knowledge of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is mostly based on quasar absorption-line measurements. These have uncovered a multiphase medium that is likely highly turbulent, b…

astro-ph.GA2023

Spatially-Resolved Recent Star Formation History in NGC 6946

Debby Tran, Benjamin Williams, Emily Levesque +6

The nearby face-on star forming spiral galaxy NGC 6946 is known as the Fireworks Galaxy due to its hosting an unusually large number of supernova. We analyze its resolved near-ultr…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

The Masses of Supernova Remnant Progenitors in M33

Brad Koplitz, Jared Johnson, Benjamin F. Williams +7

Using resolved optical stellar photometry from the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury Triangulum Extended Region (PHATTER) survey, we measured the star formation history (SFH)…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 2 cited

A Multiwavelength Classification and Study of Red Supergiant Candidates in NGC 6946

Jared R. Johnson, Brad Koplitz, Benjamin F. Williams +3

We have combined resolved stellar photometry from Hubble Space Telescope (\emph{HST}), \emph{Spitzer}, and \emph{Gaia} to identify red supergiant (RSG) candidates in NGC~6946, base…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 16 cited

Cataclysmic Variables in the Second Year of the Zwicky Transient Facility

Paula Szkody, Clair Olde Loohuis, Brad Koplitz +17

Using a filter in the GROWTH Marshal based on color and the amplitude and the timescale of variability, we have identified 372 objects as known or candidate cataclysmic variables (…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 12 cited

The Masses of Supernova Remnant Progenitors in NGC 6946

Brad Koplitz, Jared Johnson, Benjamin F. Williams +5

We constrained the progenitor masses for 169 supernova remnants, 8 historically observed supernovae, and the black hole formation candidate in NGC 6946, finding that they are consi…