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20132026
most citedSearching for Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Merger Events with the Prototype Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO-4)

108 citations · 804 across the 43 of their papers we have counts for

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44 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Transit Timing and Transmission Spectrum of Hot Jupiter WASP-43 b from a decade of Multi-band Transit Follow-up Observations

Napaporn A-thano, Supachai Awiphan, Eamonn Kerins +21

We present a new set of 35 transit light curves of the hot Jupiter WASP-43~b, obtained through the SPEARNET network. These datasets were analyzed together with previously published…

astro-ph.EP2026

Investigation of Transit Timing and an Optical Transmission Spectrum of the Hot Jupiter WASP-11 b

Napaporn A-thano, Supachai Awiphan, Eamonn Kerins +15

WASP-11~b/HAT-P-10~b is an inflated hot Jupiter, which has a low density that makes it a good target for atmospheric studies using the transmission spectroscopy technique. In this…

astro-ph.HE2026

GOTO identification and broadband modelling of the counterpart to the SVOM GRB 250818B

S. Belkin, G. P. Lamb, K. Ackley +61

Rapid localisation and follow-up of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) increasingly rely on low-latency triggers from new missions coupled to wide-field robotic optical facilities. We present…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

Gaia20fnr: A binary-lens microlensing event with full orbital motion revealed by four space telescopes

M. Wicker, Ł. Wyrzykowski, M. Hundertmark +49

The microlensing event Gaia20fnr is a long-duration, non-caustic-crossing binary-lens event at high Galactic latitude. Triggered by a photometric rise detected by the Gaia space mi…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Constraining Lens Masses in Moderately to Highly Magnified Microlensing Events from Gaia

U. Pylypenko, Ł. Wyrzykowski, P. J. Mikołajczyk +57

Microlensing events provide a unique way to detect and measure the masses of isolated, non-luminous objects, particularly dark stellar remnants. Under certain conditions, it is pos…

astro-ph.EP2024

Transit Timing Variation of K2-237b: Hints Toward Planet Disk Migration

Fan Yang, Richard J. Long, Eamonn Kerins +8

Hot Jupiters should initially form at considerable distances from host stars and subsequently migrate towards inner regions, supported directly by transit timing variation (TTV). W…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

: the GOTO project for real-time citizen science in time-domain astrophysics

T. L. Killestein, L. Kelsey, E. Wickens +51

Time-domain astrophysics continues to grow rapidly, with the inception of new surveys drastically increasing data volumes. Democratised, distributed approaches to training sets for…

astro-ph.EP2024

A close binary lens revealed by the microlensing event Gaia20bof

E. Bachelet, P. Rota, V. Bozza +24

During the last 25 years, hundreds of binary stars and planets have been discovered towards the Galactic Bulge by microlensing surveys. Thanks to a new generation of large-sky surv…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 26 cited

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…

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

RoSETZ: Roman Survey of the Earth Transit Zone -- a SETI-optimized survey for habitable-zone exoplanets

Eamonn Kerins, Supachai Awiphan, Kathryn Edmondson +12

In this White Paper for Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) science, we propose the Roman Survey of the Earth Transit Zone (RoSETZ), a transit search for rocky planets within…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

Revisiting the Transit Timing and Atmosphere Characterization of the Neptune-mass Planet HAT-P-26 b

Napaporn A-thano, Supachai Awiphan, Ing-Guey Jiang +11

We present the transit timing variation (TTV) and planetary atmosphere analysis of the Neptune-mass planet HAT-P-26~b. We present a new set of 13 transit light curves from optical…

cs.CV2022★ 6 cited

Self-Supervised Clustering on Image-Subtracted Data with Deep-Embedded Self-Organizing Map

Y. -L. Mong, K. Ackley, T. L. Killestein +45

Developing an effective automatic classifier to separate genuine sources from artifacts is essential for transient follow-ups in wide-field optical surveys. The identification of t…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 4 cited

Earth through the looking glass: how frequently are we detected by other civilisations through photometric microlensing?

S. Suphapolthaworn, S. Awiphan, T. Chatchadanoraset +5

Microlensing is proving to be one of the best techniques to detect distant, low-mass planets around the most common stars in the Galaxy. In principle, Earth's microlensing signal c…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 29 cited

Euclid-Roman joint microlensing survey: early mass measurement, free floating planets and exomoons

Etienne Bachelet, David Specht, Matthew Penny +12

As the Kepler mission has done for hot exoplanets, the ESA Euclid and NASA Roman missions have the potential to create a breakthrough in our understanding of the demographics of co…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 10 cited

The Transit Timing and Atmosphere of Hot Jupiter HAT-P-37b

Napaporn A-thano, Ing-Guey Jiang, Supachai Awiphan +13

The transit timing variation (TTV) and transmission spectroscopy analyses of the planet HAT-P-37b, which is a hot Jupiter orbiting an G-type star, were performed. Nine new transit…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 19 cited

Single-lens mass measurement in the high-magnification microlensing event Gaia19bld located in the Galactic disc

K. A. Rybicki, Ł. Wyrzykowski, E. Bachelet +66

We present the photometric analysis of Gaia19bld, a high-magnification () microlensing event located in the southern Galactic plane, which exhibited finite source and m…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2021

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…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 10 cited

Searching For Fermi GRB Optical Counterparts With The Prototype Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO)

Y. -L. Mong, K. Ackley, D. K. Galloway +45

The typical detection rate of gamma-ray burst (GRB) per day by the \emph{Fermi} Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) provides a valuable opportunity to further our understanding o…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 30 cited

Light curve classification with recurrent neural networks for GOTO: dealing with imbalanced data

U. F. Burhanudin, J. R. Maund, T. Killestein +42

The advent of wide-field sky surveys has led to the growth of transient and variable source discoveries. The data deluge produced by these surveys has necessitated the use of machi…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

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)…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 27 cited

A transit timing variation observed for the long-period extremely low density exoplanet HIP 41378f

Edward M. Bryant, Daniel Bayliss, Alexandre Santerne +47

HIP 41378 f is a temperate planet with period of 542.08 days and an extremely low density of g cm. It transits the bright star HIP 41378…