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most citedFollow up of GW170817 and its electromagnetic counterpart by Australian-led observing programs

212 citations · 391 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Ready for O4 II: GRANDMA Observations of Swift GRBs during eight-weeks of Spring 2022

I. Tosta e Melo, J. -G. Ducoin, Z. Vidadi +106

We present a campaign designed to train the GRANDMA network and its infrastructure to follow up on transient alerts and detect their early afterglows. In preparation for O4 II camp…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 46 cited

Refined physical parameters for Chariklo's body and rings from stellar occultations observed between 2013 and 2020

B. E. Morgado, B. Sicardy, F. Braga-Ribas +78

The Centaur (10199) Chariklo has the first rings system discovered around a small object. It was first observed using stellar occultation in 2013. Stellar occultations allow the de…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 9 cited

Grandma: a network to coordinate them all

S. Agayeva, S. Alishov, S. Antier +75

GRANDMA is an international project that coordinates telescope observations of transient sources with large localization uncertainties. Such sources include gravitational wave even…

astro-ph.IM2020

The Zadko telescope results: ten years of science

B. Gendre, D. Coward, J. Moore +5

The 1.0 meter f/4 fast-slew Zadko telescope is located in Western Australia, approximately seventy kilometers north of Perth at Yeal in the Shire of Gingin in a dedicated "low-lumi…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 76 cited

The first six months of the Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run with GRANDMA

S. Antier, S. Agayeva, V. Aivazyan +74

We present the Global Rapid Advanced Network Devoted to the Multi-messenger Addicts (GRANDMA). The network consists of 21 telescopes with both photometric and spectroscopic facilit…

astro-ph.IM2018

From a computer controlled telescope to a robotic observatory: the history of the VIRT

Bruce Gendre, N. Brice Orange, David C. Morris +4

The Virgin Island Robotic Telescope is located at the Etelman Observatory, St Thomas, since 2002. We will present its evolution since that date with the changes we have performed i…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 212 cited

Follow up of GW170817 and its electromagnetic counterpart by Australian-led observing programs

I. Andreoni, K. Ackley, J. Cooke +122

The discovery of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave signal has generated follow-up observations by over 50 facilities world-wide, ushering in the new era…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 17 cited

DDOTI: the deca-degree optical transient imager

Alan M. Watson, William H. Lee, Eleonora Troja +18

DDOTI will be a wide-field robotic imager consisting of six 28-cm telescopes with prime focus CCDs mounted on a common equatorial mount. Each telescope will have a field of view of…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 30 cited

The Zadko Telescope: A Southern Hemisphere Telescope for Optical Transient Searches, Multi-Messenger Astronomy and Education

D. M. Coward, M. Todd, T. P. Vaalsta +17

The new 1-m f/4 fast-slew Zadko Telescope was installed in June 2008 about 70 km north of Perth, Western Australia. It is the only metre-class optical facility at this southern lat…