A census of AM CVn stars: three new candidates and one confirmed 48.3-minute binary (2009)
Rau, Arne, Roelofs, Gijs H. A., Groot, Paul J., Marsh, Tom R., Nelemans, Gijs, Steeghs, Danny, ...
We present three new candidate AM CVn binaries, plus one confirmed new system, from a spectroscopic survey of color-selected objects from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. All four systems were found...
Exploring the Optical Transient Sky with the Palomar Transient Factory (2009)
Rau, Arne, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Law, Nicholas M., Bloom, Joshua S., Ciardi, David, Djorgovski, George S., ...
The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is a wide-field experiment designed to investigate the optical transient and variable sky on time scales from minutes to years. PTF uses the CFH12k mosaic camera,...
A comparison of weak-lensing measurements from ground- and space-based facilities (2008)
Kasliwal, Mansi M., Massey, Richard, Ellis, Richard S., Miyazaki, Satoshi, Rhodes, Jason
We assess the relative merits of weak-lensing surveys, using overlapping imaging data from the ground-based Subaru telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Our tests complement similar studies...
GRB 070125: The first long-duration gamma-ray burst in a halo environment (2008)
Cenko, S. Bradley, Fox, Derek B., Penprase, Brian E., Cucchiara, Antonio, Price, Paul A., Berger, Edo, ...
We present the discovery and high signal-to-noise ratio spectroscopic observations of the optical afterglow of the long-duration gamma-ray burst GRB 070125. Unlike all previously observed...
Cenko, S. Bradley, Berger, Edo, Nakar, Ehud, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Cucchiara, Antonio, Kulkarni, Shri R., ...
We present optical spectra of the host galaxies of the short-duration gamma-ray burst GRB 070429B and the likely short-duration with extended emission GRB 070714B. In both cases, we find a single...
A Comparison of Weak Lensing Measurements From Ground- and Space-Based Facilities (2007)
Kasliwal, Mansi M., Massey, Richard, Ellis, Richard S., Miyazaki, Satoshi, Rhodes, Jason
We assess the relative merits of weak lensing surveys, using overlapping imaging data from the ground-based Subaru telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Our tests complement similar studies...