The palomar transient factory: System overview, performance, and first results

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Volumn 121, Issue 886, 2009, Pages 1395-1408

  Law, Nicholas M ^a   Kulkarni, Shrinivas R ^a   Dekany, Richard G ^a   Ofek, Eran O ^a   Quimby, Robert M ^a   Nugent, Peter E ^b   Surace, Jason ^a   Grillmair, Carl C ^a   Bloom, Joshua S ^c   Kasliwal, Mansi M ^a   Bildsten, Lars ^d   Brown, Tim ^e   Cenko, S Bradley ^c   Ciardi, David ^a   Croner, Ernest ^a   Djorgovski, S George ^a   Van Eyken, Julian ^a   Filippenko, Alexei V ^c   Fox, Derek B ^f   Gal Yam, Avishay ^g   Hale, David ^a   Hamam, Nouhad ^a   Helou, George ^a   Henning, John ^a   Howell, D Andrew ^e,h   Jacobsen, Janet ^b   Laher, Russ ^a   Mattingly, Sean ^a   McKenna, Dan ^a   Pickles, Andrew ^e   Poznanski, Dovi ^b,c   Rahmer, Gustavo ^a   Rau, Arne ^a,i   Rosing, Wayne ^e   Shara, Michael ^j   Smith, Roger ^a   Starr, Dan ^c,e   Sullivan, Mark ^k   Velur, Viswa ^a   Walters, Richard ^a   Zolkower, Jeff ^a   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LAS CUMBRES OBSERVATORY GLOBAL TELESCOPE NETWORK   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^j DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 71449107109     PISSN: 00046280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648598     Document Type: Article

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