A search for fast optical transients in the Pan-STARRS1 medium-deep survey: M-dwarf flares, asteroids, limits on extragalactic rates, and implications for LSST

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 779, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Berger, E ^a   Leibler, C N ^a,b   Chornock, R ^a   Rest, A ^c   Foley, R J ^a   Soderberg, A M ^a   Price, P A ^d   Burgett, W S ^e   Chambers, K C ^e   Flewelling, H ^e   Huber, M E ^e   Magnier, E A ^e   Metcalfe, N ^f   Stubbs, C W ^g   Tonry, J L ^e  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STScI   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

minor planets, asteroids: general; novae, cataclysmic variables; stars: flare; supernovae: general; surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889038181     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/779/1/18     Document Type: Article

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