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most citedThe Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

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astro-ph.IM2017★ 15 cited

A First Transients Survey with JWST: the FLARE project

Lifan Wang, D. Baade, E. Baron +43

JWST was conceived and built to answer one of the most fundamental questions that humans can address empirically: "How did the Universe make its first stars?". Our First Lights At…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 24 cited

Optical Sky Brightness and Transparency During the Winter Season at Dome A Antarctica From the Gattini-Allsky Camera

Yi Yang, Anna M. Moore, Kevin Krisciunas +21

The summit of the Antarctic plateau, Dome A, is proving to be an excellent site for optical, NIR, and THz astronomical observations. GATTINI was a wide-field camera installed on th…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 39 cited

Interpreting Flux from Broadband Photometry

Peter J. Brown, Alice Breeveld, Peter W. A. Roming +1

We discuss the transformation of observed photometry into flux for the creation of spectral energy distributions and the computation of bolometric luminosities. We do this in the c…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 5 cited

Decontaminating Swift UVOT Grism Observations of Transient Sources

Michael T. Smitka, Peter J. Brown, Paul Kuin +1

We present a new technique of decontaminating Swift UVOT grism spectra for transient objects. We describe the template image requirements and image processing steps necessary to su…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 48 cited

The Swift-UVOT ultraviolet and visible grism calibration

N. P. M. Kuin, W. Landsman, A. A. Breeveld +16

We present the calibration of the Swift UVOT grisms, of which there are two, providing low-resolution field spectroscopy in the ultraviolet and optical bands respectively. The UV g…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 2.5k cited

The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

Shadab Alam, Franco D. Albareti, Carlos Allende Prieto +271

The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fib…