3 papers
astro-ph.HE2026
AT 2024ahzi: A Type IIP Supernova Discovered by the LSST Commissioning Camera
Kaylee de Soto, V. Ashley Villar, Jared A. Goldberg +25
As part of its commissioning, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory observed several fields repeatedly for a month with ComCam, an instrument that uses the same hardware as the LSST camera…
astro-ph.HE2023
The LIGO HET Response (LIGHETR) Project to Discover and Spectroscopically Follow Optical Transients Associated with Neutron Star Mergers
M. J. Bustamante-Rosell, Greg Zeimann, J. Craig Wheeler +20
The LIGO HET Response (LIGHETR) project is an enterprise to follow up optical transients (OT) discovered as gravitational wave merger sources by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration (LVC).…
astro-ph.GA2022
Tracing Milky Way substructure with an RR Lyrae hierarchical clustering forest
Brian T. Cook, Deborah F. Woods, Jessica D. Ruprecht +6
RR Lyrae variable stars have long been reliable standard candles used to discern structure in the Local Group. With this in mind, we present a routine to identify groupings contain…