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The Palomar Transient Factory photometric calibration
E. O. Ofek, R. Laher, N. Law +20
The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) provides multiple epoch imaging for a large fraction of the sky. Here we describe the photometric calibration of the PTF data products that rela…
Three New Eclipsing White-dwarf - M-dwarf Binaries Discovered in a Search for Transiting Planets Around M-dwarfs
Nicholas M. Law, Adam L. Kraus, Rachel Street +24
We present three new eclipsing white-dwarf / M-dwarf binary systems discovered during a search for transiting planets around M-dwarfs. Unlike most known eclipsing systems of this t…
Calcium-rich gap transients in the remote outskirts of galaxies
Mansi M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, Avishay Gal-Yam +25
From the first two seasons of the Palomar Transient Factory, we identify three peculiar transients (PTF09dav, PTF10iuv, PTF11bij) with five distinguishing characteristics: peak lum…
A Revised View of the Transient Radio Sky
D. A. Frail, S. R. Kulkarni, E. O. Ofek +2
We report on a re-analysis of archival data from the Very Large Array for a sample of ten long duration radio transients reported by Bower and others. These transients have an impl…
Supernova 2011fe from an Exploding Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarf Star
Peter E. Nugent, Mark Sullivan, S. Bradley Cenko +36
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have been used empirically as standardized candles to reveal the accelerating universe even though fundamental details, such as the nature of the progen…
Evidence for a compact Wolf-Rayet progenitor for the Type Ic supernova PTF 10vgv
A. Corsi, E. O. Ofek, A. Gal-Yam +22
We present the discovery of PTF 10vgv, a Type Ic supernova detected by the Palomar Transient Factory, using the Palomar 48-inch telescope (P48). R-band observations of the PTF 10vg…