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20052022
most citedX-shooter, the new wide band intermediate resolution spectrograph at the ESO Very Large Telescope

1.2k citations · 2.3k across the 47 of their papers we have counts for

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47 papers

astro-ph.IM2022★ 8 cited

Rubin Observatory LSST Transients and Variable Stars Roadmap

Kelly M. Hambleton, Federica B. Bianco, Rachel Street +79

The Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time holds the potential to revolutionize time domain astrophysics, reaching completely unexplored areas of the Universe and mapping va…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 13 cited

Revisiting V1309 Sco 2008 outburst spectra. Observational evidence for theoretical modeling of stellar mergers

Elena Mason, Steven N. Shore

CONTEXT: V1309 Sco is the only certain noncompact stellar merger, due to its indisputable preoutburst light curve matching that of a contact binary of almost equal mass stars. Ther…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 21 cited

An Observational Study of a "Rosetta-Stone" Solar Eruption

E I Mason, Spiro Antiochos, Angelos Vourlidas

This Letter reports observations of an event that connects all major classes of solar eruptions: those that erupt fully into the heliosphere versus those that fail and are confined…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 10 cited

The aftermath of nova Cen 2013 (V1369 Cen)

Elena Mason, Steven N. Shore, Jeremy Drake +3

Context: Classical nova progenitors are cataclysmic variables and very old novae are observed to match high mass transfer rate and (relatively) long orbital period systems. However…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 19 cited

SN 2018ijp: the explosion of a stripped-envelope star within a dense H-rich shell?

L. Tartaglia, J. Sollerman, C. Barbarino +24

In this paper, we discuss the outcomes of the follow-up campaign of SN 2018ijp, discovered as part of the Zwicky Transient Facility survey for optical transients. Its first spectru…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 22 cited

A Plague of Magnetic Spots Among the Hot Stars of Globular Clusters

Yazan Al Momany, Simone Zaggia, Marco Montalto +15

Six decades and counting, the formation of hot ~20,000-30,000 K Extreme Horizontal Branch (EHB) stars in Galactic Globular Clusters remains one of the most elusive quests in stella…