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134 citations · 1.1k across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

GOTO065054+593624: a 8.5 mag amplitude dwarf nova identified in real time via Kilonova Seekers

T. L. Killestein, G. Ramsay, M. Kennedy +62

Dwarf novae are astrophysical laboratories for probing the nature of accretion, binary mass transfer, and binary evolution -- yet their diverse observational characteristics contin…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 21 cited

A comparison of next-generation turbulence profiling instruments at Paranal

Ryan Griffiths, Lisa Bardou, Timothy Butterley +6

A six-night optical turbulence monitoring campaign has been carried at Cerro Paranal observatory in February and March, 2023 to facilitate the development and characterisation of t…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 1 cited

Lens mass estimate in the Galactic disk extreme parallax microlensing event Gaia19dke

M. Maskoliūnas, Ł. Wyrzykowski, K. Howil +74

We present the results of our analysis of Gaia19dke, an extraordinary microlensing event in the Cygnus constellation that was first spotted by the {\gaia} satellite. This event fea…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 14 cited

SHIMM: A Versatile Seeing Monitor for Astronomy

Saavidra Perera, Richard W. Wilson, Tim Butterley +3

Characterisation of atmospheric optical turbulence is crucial for the design and operation of modern ground-based optical telescopes. In particular, the effective application of ad…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 34 cited

Demonstrating 24-hour continuous vertical monitoring of atmospheric optical turbulence

Ryan Griffiths, James Osborn, Ollie Farley +3

We report what is believed to be the first example of fully continuous, 24-hour vertical monitoring of atmospheric optical turbulence. This is achieved using a novel instrument, th…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 134 cited

Gaia Photometric Science Alerts

S. T. Hodgkin, D. L. Harrison, E. Breedt +108

Since July 2014, the Gaia mission has been engaged in a high-spatial-resolution, time-resolved, precise, accurate astrometric, and photometric survey of the entire sky. Aims: We pr…