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20142025
most citedPESSTO : survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects

361 citations · 858 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

OGLE-2002-BLG-360: a dusty anomaly among red nova remnants

T. Steinmetz, T. Kamiński, C. Melis +4

OGLE-2002-BLG-360 is an example of a Galactic red nova, the aftermath of a non-compact stellar merger. The dusty nature of the circumstellar environment makes observations of this…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 33 cited

The BlackGEM telescope array I: Overview

Paul J. Groot, S. Bloemen, P. Vreeswijk +75

The main science aim of the BlackGEM array is to detect optical counterparts to gravitational wave mergers. Additionally, the array will perform a set of synoptic surveys to detect…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 134 cited

Gaia Photometric Science Alerts

S. T. Hodgkin, D. L. Harrison, E. Breedt +108

Since July 2014, the Gaia mission has been engaged in a high-spatial-resolution, time-resolved, precise, accurate astrometric, and photometric survey of the entire sky. Aims: We pr…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 148 cited

Energetic eruptions leading to a peculiar hydrogen-rich explosion of a massive star

Iair Arcavi, D. Andrew Howell, Daniel Kasen +50

Every supernova hitherto observed has been considered to be the terminal explosion of a star. Moreover, all supernovae with absorption lines in their spectra show those lines decre…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 60 cited

Gaia data release 1, the photometric data

F. van Leeuwen, D. W. Evans, F. De Angeli +91

Context. This paper presents an overview of the photometric data that are part of the first Gaia data release. Aims. The principles of the processing and the main characteristics o…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 117 cited

Common Envelope ejection for a Luminous Red Nova in M101

N. Blagorodnova, R. Kotak, J. Polshaw +30

We present the results of optical, near-infrared, and mid-infrared observations of M101 OT2015-1 (PSN J14021678+5426205), a luminous red transient in the Pinwheel galaxy (M101), sp…