A kilonova following a long-duration gamma-ray burst at 350 Mpc

JC Rastinejad, BP Gompertz, AJ Levan, W Fong… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are divided into two populations,; long GRBs that derive from the
core collapse of massive stars (for example, ref.) and short GRBs that form in the merger of …

Orbital period change of Dimorphos due to the DART kinetic impact

CA Thomas, SP Naidu, P Scheirich, NA Moskovitz… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully performed
the first test of a kinetic impactor for asteroid deflection by impacting Dimorphos, the …

The Spectroscopic Classification of Astronomical Transients (SCAT) Survey: Overview, Pipeline Description, Initial Results, and Future Plans

MA Tucker, BJ Shappee, ME Huber… - Publications of the …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present the Spectroscopic Classification of Astronomical Transients (SCAT)
survey, which is dedicated to spectrophotometric observations of transient objects such as …

A census of baryons in the Universe from localized fast radio bursts

JP Macquart, JX Prochaska, M McQuinn, KW Bannister… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
More than three-quarters of the baryonic content of the Universe resides in a highly diffuse
state that is difficult to detect, with only a small fraction directly observed in galaxies and …

The Zwicky Transient Facility: system overview, performance, and first results

EC Bellm, SR Kulkarni, MJ Graham… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new optical time-domain survey that uses
the Palomar 48 inch Schmidt telescope. A custom-built wide-field camera provides a 47 deg …

ATLAS: a high-cadence all-sky survey system

JL Tonry, L Denneau, AN Heinze… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Technology has advanced to the point that it is possible to image the entire sky every night
and process the data in real time. The sky is hardly static: many interesting phenomena …

A single fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy at cosmological distance

KW Bannister, AT Deller, C Phillips, JP Macquart… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief radio emissions from distant astronomical sources. Some
are known to repeat, but most are single bursts. Nonrepeating FRB observations have had …

LiteBIRD satellite: JAXA's new strategic L-class mission for all-sky surveys of cosmic microwave background polarization

M Hazumi, PAR Ade, A Adler, E Allys… - Space Telescopes …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from
cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology and …

The all-sky automated survey for supernovae (ASAS-SN) light curve server v1. 0

CS Kochanek, BJ Shappee, KZ Stanek… - Publications of the …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) is working toward
imaging the entire visible sky every night to a depth of $ V\sim 17$ mag. The present data …

The Exploration of Local VolumE Satellites (ELVES) Survey: A Nearly Volume-limited Sample of Nearby Dwarf Satellite Systems

SG Carlsten, JE Greene, RL Beaton… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the final sample of the Exploration of Local VolumE Satellites (ELVES) survey, a
survey of the dwarf satellites of a nearly volume-limited sample of Milky Way (MW)− like …