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Parallactic Motion for Companion Discovery: An M-Dwarf Orbiting Alcor
Neil Zimmerman, Ben R. Oppenheimer, Sasha Hinkley +16
The A5V star Alcor has an M3-M4 dwarf companion, as evidenced by a novel astrometric technique. Imaging spectroscopy combined with adaptive optics coronagraphy allowed for the dete…
Hydrogen-poor superluminous stellar explosions
R. M. Quimby, S. R. Kulkarni, M. M. Kasliwal +24
Supernovae (SNe) are stellar explosions driven by gravitational or thermonuclear energy, observed as electromagnetic radiation emitted over weeks or more. In all known SNe, this ra…
The Palomar Transient Factory: System Overview, Performance and First Results
N. M. Law, S. R. Kulkarni, R. G. Dekany +38
The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is a fully-automated, wide-field survey aimed at a systematic exploration of the optical transient sky. The transient survey is performed using…