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most citedMinerva-Australis I: Design, Commissioning, & First Photometric Results

118 citations · 505 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

astro-ph.EP2024

Trials and Tribulations in the Reanalysis of KELT-24 b: a Case Study for the Importance of Stellar Modeling

Mark R. Giovinazzi, Bryson Cale, Jason D. Eastman +21

We present a new analysis of the KELT-24 system, comprising a well-aligned hot Jupiter, KELT-24~b, and a bright (), nearby () F-type host star. KELT-24~b…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 27 cited

Another Shipment of Six Short-Period Giant Planets from TESS

Joseph E. Rodriguez, Samuel N. Quinn, Andrew Vanderburg +119

We present the discovery and characterization of six short-period, transiting giant planets from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) -- TOI-1811 (TIC 376524552), TO…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 9 cited

Resolving the inner accretion flow towards the central supermassive black hole in SDSS J1339+1310

V. N. Shalyapin, L. J. Goicoechea, C. W. Morgan +2

We studied the accretion disc structure in the doubly imaged lensed quasar SDSS J1339+1310 using -band light curves and UV-visible to near-IR (NIR) spectra from the first 11 obs…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 18 cited

Near infrared and optical continuum emission region size measurements in the gravitationally lensed quasars Q0957+561 and SBS0909+532

Matthew A. Cornachione, Christopher W. Morgan, Hayden R. Burger +5

We present a microlensing analysis of updated light curves in three filters, --band, --band, and --band, for the gravitationally lensed quasars Q0957+561 and SBS0909+532.…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 36 cited

Quasar Microlensing Variability Studies Favor Shallow Accretion Disk Temperature Profiles

Matthew A. Cornachione, Christopher W. Morgan

We compare the microlensing-based continuum emission region size measurements in a sample of 15 gravitationally lensed quasars with estimates of luminosity-based thin disk sizes to…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 29 cited

A Microlensing Accretion Disk Size Measurement in the Lensed Quasar WFI 2026-4536

Matthew A. Cornachione, Christopher W. Morgan, Martin Millon +4

We use thirteen seasons of R-band photometry from the 1.2m Leonard Euler Swiss Telescope at La Silla to examine microlensing variability in the quadruply-imaged lensed quasar WFI 2…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 22 cited

Rest-frame UV Properties of Luminous Strong Gravitationally Lensed Ly Emitters from the BELLS GALLERY Survey

R. Marques-Chaves, I. Pérez-Fournon, Y. Shu +15

We present deep rest-frame UV spectroscopic observations using the Gran Telescopio Canarias of six gravitationally lensed Lya emitters (LAEs) at selected from the BEL…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 8 cited

A Full Implementation of Spectro-Perfectionism for Precise Radial Velocity Exoplanet Detection: A Test Case With the MINERVA Reduction Pipeline

Matthew A. Cornachione, Adam S. Bolton, Jason D. Eastman +10

We present a computationally tractable implementation of spectro-perfectionism, a method which minimizes error imparted by spectral extraction. We develop our method in conjunction…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 6 cited

X-ray monitoring of gravitationally lensed radio-loud quasars with Chandra

Mustafa Burak Dogruel, Xinyu Dai, Eduardo Guerras +2

In this work, we calculated the sizes of unresolved X-ray emission regions in three gravitationally lensed radio-loud quasars, B\,1422+231, MG\,J0414+0534 and Q\,0957+561, using a…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 23 cited

KELT-24b: A 5M Planet on a 5.6 day Well-Aligned Orbit around the Young V=8.3 F-star HD 93148

Joseph E. Rodriguez, Jason D. Eastman, George Zhou +76

We present the discovery of KELT-24 b, a massive hot Jupiter orbiting a bright (V=8.3 mag, K=7.2 mag) young F-star with a period of 5.6 days. The host star, KELT-24 (HD 93148), has…

astro-ph.GA2019

The Most Powerful Lenses in the Universe: Quasar Microlensing as a Probe of the Lensing Galaxy

David Pooley, Timo Anguita, Saloni Bhatiani +14

Optical and X-ray observations of strongly gravitationally lensed quasars (especially when four separate images of the quasar are produced) determine not only the amount of matter…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 2 cited

Astro2020 Science White Paper - Quasar Microlensing: Revolutionizing our Understanding of Quasar Structure and Dynamics

Leonidas Moustakas, Matthew O'Dowd, Timo Anguita +20

Microlensing by stars within distant galaxies acting as strong gravitational lenses of multiply-imaged quasars, provides a unique and direct measurement of the internal structure o…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 12 cited

First radial velocity results from the MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA)

Maurice L. Wilson, Jason D. Eastman, Matthew A. Cornachione +52

The MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA) is a dedicated observatory of four 0.7m robotic telescopes fiber-fed to a KiwiSpec spectrograph. The MINERVA mission is to d…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 118 cited

Minerva-Australis I: Design, Commissioning, & First Photometric Results

Brett Addison, Duncan J. Wright, Robert A. Wittenmyer +35

The Minerva-Australis telescope array is a facility dedicated to the follow-up, confirmation, characterisation, and mass measurement of bright transiting planets discovered by the…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 49 cited

Accretion Disk Size Measurement and Time Delays in the Lensed Quasar WFI 2033-4723

Christopher W. Morgan, Gregory E. Hyer, Vivien Bonvin +5

We present 13 seasons of -band photometry of the quadruply-lensed quasar WFI 2033-4723 from the 1.3m SMARTS telescope at CTIO and the 1.2m Euler Swiss Telescope at La Silla, in…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 25 cited

The BOSS Emission-Line Lens Survey V. Morphology and Substructure of Lensed Lyman- Emitters at redshift in the BELLS GALLERY

Matthew Cornachione, Adam Bolton, Yiping Shu +9

We present a morphological study of the 17 lensed Lyman- emitter (LAE) galaxies of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Emission-Line Lens Survey (BELLS) for the GALaxy-L…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 18 cited

Discovery of a Very Bright and Intrinsically Very Luminous, Strongly Lensed Lyα Emitting Galaxy at z = 2.82 in the BOSS Emission-Line Lens Survey

Rui Marques-Chaves, Ismael Pérez-Fournon, Yiping Shu +9

We report the discovery of a very bright (r = 20.16), highly magnified, and yet intrinsically very luminous Lyα emitter (LAE) at z = 2.82. This system comprises four images in the…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 103 cited

The BOSS Emission-Line Lens Survey. IV. : Smooth Lens Models for the BELLS GALLERY Sample

Yiping Shu, Adam S. Bolton, Shude Mao +9

We present \textsl{Hubble Space Telescope} (\textsl{HST}) F606W-band imaging observations of 21 galaxy-Ly emitter lens candidates in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey…