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most citedPhotometric Calibration of the Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope

957 citations · 3.8k across the 49 of their papers we have counts for

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49 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.GA2022★ 125 cited

Short GRB Host Galaxies I: Photometric and Spectroscopic Catalogs, Host Associations, and Galactocentric Offsets

Wen-fai Fong, Anya E. Nugent, Yuxin Dong +25

We present a comprehensive optical and near-infrared census of the fields of 90 short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) discovered in 2005-2021, constituting all short GRBs for which host ga…

astro-ph.IM2021

Finding Fast Transients in Real Time Using Novel Light Curve Analysis Algorithm

Robert Strausbaugh, Antonino Cucchiara, Michael Dow +4

The current data acquisition rate of astronomical transient surveys and the promise for significantly higher rates during in the next decade necessitate the development of novel ap…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 25 cited

Optimizing Cadences with Realistic Light Curve Filtering for Serendipitous Kilonova Discovery with Vera Rubin Observatory

Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Mouza Almualla +11

Current and future optical and near-infrared wide-field surveys have the potential of finding kilonovae, the optical and infrared counterparts to neutron star mergers, independentl…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 28 cited

GRB 160625B: Evidence for a Gaussian-Shaped Jet

Virginia Cunningham, S. Bradley Cenko, Geoffrey Ryan +9

We present multiwavelength modeling of the afterglow from the long gamma-ray burst GRB 160625B using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques of the afterglowpy Python package. G…

astro-ph.IM2019

BurstCube: Concept, Performance, and Status

Jacob R. Smith, Michael S. Briggs, Alessandro Bruno +26

The first simultaneous detection of a short gamma-ray burst (SGRB) with a gravitational-wave (GW) signal ushered in a new era of multi-messenger astronomy. In order to increase the…