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most citedDemographics of the Galaxies Hosting Short-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts

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astro-ph.HE2013★ 206 cited

Demographics of the Galaxies Hosting Short-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts

Wen-fai Fong, Edo Berger, Ryan Chornock +17

We present observations of the afterglows and host galaxies of three short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs): 100625A, 101219A and 110112A. We find that GRB 100625A occurred in a z=…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 39 cited

The Carnegie Astrometric Planet Search Program

Alan P. Boss, Alycia J. Weinberger, Guillem Anglada-Escude +8

We are undertaking an astrometric search for gas giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting nearby low mass dwarf stars with the 2.5-m du Pont telescope at the Las Campanas Observator…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 39 cited

MMTF: The Maryland-Magellan Tunable Filter

S. Veilleux, B. J. Weiner, D. S. N. Rupke +8

This paper describes the Maryland-Magellan Tunable Filter (MMTF) on the Magellan-Baade 6.5-meter telescope. MMTF is based on a 150-mm clear aperture Fabry-Perot (FP) etalon that op…

astro-ph2008★ 15 cited

The FourStar Infrared Camera

S. E. Persson, Robert Barkhouser, Christoph Birk +11

The FourStar infrared camera is a 1.0-2.5 micron (JHKs) near infrared camera for the Magellan Baade 6.5m telescope at Las Campanas Observatory (Chile). It is being built by Carnegi…

astro-ph2008★ 185 cited

The MagE Spectrograph

J. L. Marshall, Scott Burles, Ian B. Thompson +11

The Magellan Echellette (MagE) spectrograph is a single-object optical echellette spectrograph for the Magellan Clay telescope. MagE has been designed to have high throughput in th…

astro-ph2004★ 79 cited

PANIC: A Near-infrared Camera for the Magellan Telescopes

Paul Martini, S. E. Persson, D. C. Murphy +4

PANIC (Persson's Auxiliary Nasmyth Infrared Camera) is a near-infrared camera designed to operate at any one of the f/11 folded ports of the 6.5m Magellan telescopes at Las Campana…