Tile or stare? Cadence and sky-monitoring observing strategies that maximize the number of discovered transients

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 125, Issue 5 1769, 2003, Pages 2740-2749

  Nemiroff, Robert J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Surveys; Techniques: photometric; Telescopes

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EID: 0043263239     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/374571     Document Type: Review

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