Exploring the optical transient sky with the palomar transient factory

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Volumn 121, Issue 886, 2009, Pages 1334-1351

  Rau, Arne ^a,b   Kulkarni, Shrinivas R ^a   Law, Nicholas M ^a   Bloom, Joshua S ^c   Ciardi, David ^a   Djorgovski, George S ^a   Fox, Derek B ^d   Gal Yam, Avishay ^e   Grillmair, Carl C ^f   Kasliwal, Mansi M ^a   Nugent, Peter E ^g   Ofek, Eran O ^a   Quimby, Robert M ^a   Reach, William T ^a   Shara, Michael ^h   Bildsten, Lars ⁱ   Cenko, S Bradley ^c   Drake, Andrew J ^a   Filippenko, Alexei V ^c   Helfand, David J ^j   Helou, George ^a   Howell, D Andrew ^k,l   Poznanski, Dovi ^c,g   Sullivan, Mark ^m   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

more..

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EID: 71449108289     PISSN: 00046280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605911     Document Type: Article

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