5 papers
Mapping the Landscape of M Dwarf X-ray Flares: New Discoveries in Context
Imri A. Dickstein, Maayane T. Soumagnac, Eran O. Ofek +4
We report the discovery of 11 X-ray flares from 7 M dwarfs previously unknown to exhibit flaring activity, by cross-matching eROSITA observations of bright, nearby M dwarfs with th…
The La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey
Adam A. Miller, Natasha S. Abrams, Greg Aldering +75
We present the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4), a new wide-field, time-domain survey to be conducted with the 1 m ESO Schmidt telescope. The 268 megapixel LS4 camera mosaics…
X-Sifter: detecting transients in X-ray data using the optimal Poisson matched filter
Maayane T. Soumagnac, Eran O. Ofek, Shachar S. Israeli +2
We present X-sifter, a software package designed for near-optimal detection of sources in X-ray images and other forms of photon images in the Poisson-noise regime. The code is bas…
The MOST Hosts Survey: spectroscopic observation of the host galaxies of ~40,000 transients using DESI
Maayane T. Soumagnac, Peter Nugent, Robert A. Knop +54
We present the MOST Hosts survey (Multi-Object Spectroscopy of Transient Hosts). The survey is planned to run throughout the five years of operation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopi…
The Early Ultraviolet Light-Curves of Type II Supernovae and the Radii of Their Progenitor Stars
Ido Irani, Jonathan Morag, Avishay Gal-Yam +18
We present a sample of 34 normal SNe II detected with the Zwicky Transient Facility, with multi-band UV light-curves starting at days after explosion, as well as X-ray d…