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Discovery of the first outbursting hot subdwarf binary: ZTF J0007+4804
E. Stringer, T. Kupfer, K. Deshmukh +10
Hot subdwarf binaries with white dwarf companions with orbital periods of less than two hours are progenitor candidates for massive single white dwarfs as well as a variety of ther…
Detection of OH maser emission in the 71-year periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks using the 40-m Thai National Radio Telescope (TNRT)
Nobuyuki Sakai, Saran Poshyachinda, Koichiro Sugiyama +44
Although the optical cometary database is extensive, the radio database is limited. The 18-cm OH maser observations of comets allow us to determine (i) the production rate of OH ($…
Follow-up on three poorly studied AM CVn stars
Amornrat Aungwerojwit, Boris T. Gaensicke, E. Breedt +12
We report follow-up observations of three poorly studied AM CVn-type binaries: CRTS CSS150211 J091017-200813, NSV1440, and SDSSJ183131.63+420220.2. Analysing time-series photometry…
Minutes-duration Optical Flares with Supernova Luminosities
Anna Y. Q. Ho, Daniel A. Perley, Ping Chen +74
In recent years, certain luminous extragalactic optical transients have been observed to last only a few days. Their short observed duration implies a different powering mechanism…
Spectroscopic Devices for Asteroseismology With Small Telescopes in NARIT
Somsawat Rattanasoon, Eugene Semenko, David Mkrtichian +1
The National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT) has a manifold network of small telescopes installed worldwide. These telescopes serve educational and research pur…
Overview of the Observing System and Initial Scientific Accomplishments of the East Asian VLBI Network (EAVN)
Kazunori Akiyama, Juan-Carlos Algaba, Tao An +101
The East Asian VLBI Network (EAVN) is an international VLBI facility in East Asia and is operated under mutual collaboration between East Asian countries, as well as part of Southe…
Sciences with Thai National Radio Telescope
Phrudth Jaroenjittichai, Koichiro Sugiyama, Busaba H. Kramer +44
This White Paper summarises potential key science topics to be achieved with Thai National Radio Telescope (TNRT). The commissioning phase has started in mid 2022. The key science…
The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO): prototype performance and prospects for transient science
D. Steeghs, D. K. Galloway, K. Ackley +50
The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is an array of wide-field optical telescopes, designed to exploit new discoveries from the next generation of gravitational…
Changing look AGN Mrk 590: Broad line region and black hole mass from photometric reverberation mapping
Amit Kumar Mandal, Malte Schramm, Suvendu Rakshit +9
We present the results of photometric reverberation mapping observations on the changing look active galactic nucleus Mrk 590 at z = 0.026. The observations were carried out from J…
Eclipse timing variations in the WD+dM eclipsing binary RR Cae
R. Rattanamala, S. Awiphan, S. Komonjinda +9
We present the binary model and the eclipse timing variations of the eclipsing binary RR Cae, which consists of a white dwarf eclipsed by an M-type dwarf companion. The multi-wavel…
BM UMa: a middle shallow contact binary at pre-transition stage of evolution from W-type to A-type
T. Sarotsakulchai, B. Soonthornthum, S. Poshyachinda +3
In this study, all unpublished time series photometric data of BM UMa ( 2.0, P = 0.2712\,d) from available archives were re-investigated together with new data taken from t…
Processing GOTO data with the Rubin Observatory LSST Science Pipelines II: Forced Photometry and light curves
L. Makrygianni, J. Mullaney, V. Dhillon +45
We have adapted the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Science Pipelines to process data from the Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO)…
Deep Contrast and Companion Detection Using the EvWaCo Testbed Equipped with an Achromatic Focal Plane Mask and an Adjustable Inner Working Angle
M. A. Alagao, A. Kawinkij, C. Buisset +21
The evanescent wave coronagraph uses the principle of frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR) to suppress the light coming from the star and study its close environment. Its fo…
TransitFit: combined multi-instrument exoplanet transit fitting for JWST, HST and ground-based transmission spectroscopy studies
J. J. C. Hayes, A. Priyadarshi, E. Kerins +19
We present TransitFit, a package designed to fit exoplanetary transit light-curves. TransitFit offers multi-epoch, multi-wavelength fitting of multi-telescope transit data. Transit…
Transient-optimised real-bogus classification with Bayesian Convolutional Neural Networks -- sifting the GOTO candidate stream
T. L. Killestein, J. Lyman, D. Steeghs +45
Large-scale sky surveys have played a transformative role in our understanding of astrophysical transients, only made possible by increasingly powerful machine learning-based filte…
NGTS and HST insights into the long period modulation in GW Librae
P. Chote, B. T. Gaensicke, J. McCormac +17
Light curves of the accreting white dwarf pulsator GW Librae spanning a 7.5 month period in 2017 were obtained as part of the Next Generation Transit Survey. This data set comprise…
Monitoring polarization in comet 46P/Wirtanen
M. Zheltobryukhov, E. Zubko, E. Chornaya +9
We measure the degree of linear polarization of comet 46P/Wirtanen during two months, embracing the perihelion passage in 2018 December with phase angles ranging from α=18.1 to 46.…
Processing GOTO data with the Rubin Observatory LSST Science Pipelines I : Production of coadded frames
J. R. Mullaney, L. Makrygianni, V. Dhillon +44
The past few decades have seen the burgeoning of wide field, high cadence surveys, the most formidable of which will be the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to be conducted b…
Gaia18aen: First symbiotic star discovered by Gaia
J. Merc, J. Mikołajewska, M. Gromadzki +20
Besides the astrometric mission of the Gaia satellite, its repeated and high-precision measurements serve also as an all-sky photometric transient survey. The sudden brightenings o…
Machine Learning for Transient Recognition in Difference Imaging With Minimum Sampling Effort
Yik-Lun Mong, Kendall Ackley, Duncan Galloway +45
The amount of observational data produced by time-domain astronomy is exponentially in-creasing. Human inspection alone is not an effective way to identify genuine transients fromt…
Searching for Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Merger Events with the Prototype Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO-4)
B. P. Gompertz, R. Cutter, D. Steeghs +49
We report the results of optical follow-up observations of 29 gravitational-wave triggers during the first half of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC) O3 run with the Gravitational-…
Observational constraints on the optical and near-infrared emission from the neutron star-black hole binary merger S190814bv
K. Ackley, L. Amati, C. Barbieri +151
On 2019 August 14, the LIGO and Virgo interferometers detected a high-significance event labelled S190814bv. Preliminary analysis of the GW data suggests that the event was likely…
YZ Phe: an active contact binary with variation of the O'Connell effect and orbital period change
T. Sarotsakulchai, S. -B. Qian, B. Soonthornthum +7
YZ Phe is a very short-period contact binary (Sp.= ) with an orbital period of 0.2347 days near the short period limit (0.22 d). We present the complete light curves in $VRI…
Photometric Investigation of the Contact Binary GU Ori with High Metallicity
Xiao Zhou, Shengbang Qian, Boonrucksar Soonthornthum +5
GU Ori was observed with the 1m telescope at Yunnan Observatories in 2005. To determine its physical properties, the Wilson-Devinney program is used. The results reveal that GU Ori…