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537 citations · 736 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.SR2021★ 14 cited

R Coronae Borealis and dustless Hydrogen-deficient Carbon stars have different oxygen isotope ratios

Viraj Karambelkar, Mansi Kasliwal, Patrick Tisserand +5

R Coronae Borealis (RCB) and dustless Hydrogen-deficient Carbon (dLHdC) stars are believed to be remnants of low mass white dwarf mergers. These supergiant stars have peculiar hydr…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 73 cited

Campaign 9 of the Mission: Observational Parameters, Scientific Drivers, and Community Involvement for a Simultaneous Space- and Ground-based Microlensing Survey

Calen B. Henderson, Radosław Poleski, Matthew Penny +118

's Campaign 9 (C9) will conduct a 3.7 deg survey toward the Galactic bulge from 7/April through 1/July of 2016 that will leverage the spatial separation between…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 1 cited

The Curious Case of ASAS J174600-2321.3: an Eclipsing Symbiotic Nova in Outburst?

Stefan Huemmerich, Sebastian Otero, Patrick Tisserand +1

The star ASAS J174600-2321.3 was found to exhibit peculiar photometric variability (conspicuous brightening of about 4 magnitudes (V), fast luminosity declines, intrinsic pulsation…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 73 cited

The Gaia-ESO Survey: the most metal-poor stars in the Galactic bulge

L. Howes, M. Asplund, A. R. Casey +39

We present the first results of the EMBLA survey (Extremely Metal-poor BuLge stars with AAOmega), aimed at finding metal-poor stars in the Milky Way bulge, where the oldest stars s…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 11 cited

The Extragalactic Distance Scale without Cepheids IV

Lachlan Hislop, Jeremy Mould, Brian Schmidt +7

The Cepheid period-luminosity relation is the primary distance indicator used in most determinations of the Hubble constant. The tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) is an alternativ…

astro-ph2008★ 1 cited

SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: a valuable resource for stellar astrophysics

Simon J. Murphy, Stefan C. Keller, Brian Schmidt +4

The Australian National University's SkyMapper telescope is amongst the first of a new generation of dedicated wide-field survey telescopes. Featuring a 5.7 square deg field-of-vie…