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A. Pickles
Researcher at Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network
Publications - 18
Citations - 2828
A. Pickles is an academic researcher from Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network. The author has contributed to research in topics: Stars & Telescope. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 18 publications receiving 2685 citations. Previous affiliations of A. Pickles include California Institute of Technology.
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The Palomar Transient Factory: system overview, performance and first results
Nicholas M. Law,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Richard Dekany,Eran O. Ofek,Robert M. Quimby,Peter Nugent,Jason Surace,C. Grillmair,Joshua S. Bloom,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Lars Bildsten,Timothy M. Brown,S. Bradley Cenko,David R. Ciardi,Ernest Croner,S. George Djorgovski,Julian C. van Eyken,Alexei V. Filippenko,Derek B. Fox,Avishay Gal-Yam,David Hale,Nouhad Hamam,George Helou,John Henning,D. Andrew Howell,D. Andrew Howell,Janet Jacobsen,Russ R. Laher,S. Mattingly,D. McKenna,A. Pickles,Dovi Poznanski,Dovi Poznanski,Gustavo Rahmer,Arne Rau,Wayne Rosing,Michael M. Shara,Roger M. H. Smith,Dan L. Starr,Dan L. Starr,Mark Sullivan,Viswa Velur,Richard Walters,Jeff Zolkower +43 more
TL;DR: The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) as mentioned in this paper is a fully-automated, wide-field survey aimed at a systematic exploration of the optical transient sky.
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The Palomar Transient Factory: System Overview, Performance and First Results
Nicholas M. Law,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Richard Dekany,Eran O. Ofek,R. M. Quimby,Peter Nugent,Jason Surace,C. Grillmair,Joshua S. Bloom,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Lars Bildsten,Timothy M. Brown,S. B. Cenko,David R. Ciardi,Ernest Croner,S. G. Djorgovski,J. C. van Eyken,Alexei V. Filippenko,D. B. Fox,Avishay Gal-Yam,David Hale,Nouhad Hamam,George Helou,John Henning,D. A. Howell,Janet Jacobsen,R. R. Laher,S. Mattingly,D. McKenna,A. Pickles,Dovi Poznanski,Gustavo Rahmer,A. Rau,Wayne Rosing,Michael M. Shara,Roger M. H. Smith,D. Starr,Mark Sullivan,V. Velur,R. Walters,J. Zolkower +40 more
TL;DR: The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) as mentioned in this paper is a fully-automated, wide-field survey aimed at a systematic exploration of the optical transient sky.
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The Palomar Transient Factory photometric catalog 1.0
Eran O. Ofek,Russ R. Laher,Jason Surace,David Levitan,Branimir Sesar,Assaf Horesh,Nicholas M. Law,J. C. van Eyken,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Thomas A. Prince,Peter Nugent,Mark Sullivan,Ofer Yaron,A. Pickles,Marcel A. Agüeros,Iair Arcavi,Lars Bildsten,Josh Bloom,S. B. Cenko,Avishay Gal-Yam,Carl J. Grillmair,George Helou,M. M. Kasliwal,Dovi Poznanski,Robert M. Quimby +24 more
TL;DR: The PTF photometric catalog 1.0 as mentioned in this paper contains calibrated R_PTF-filter magnitudes for ≈2.1 × 10^7 sources brighter than magnitude 19, over an area of ≈11,233 deg^2.
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Deep near-infrared observations of W3 Main star forming region
D. K. Ojha,Motohide Tamura,Yasushi Nakajima,Misato Fukagawa,K. Sugitani,Chie Nagashima,Takahiro Nagayama,Tetsuya Nagata,Shuji Sato,A. Pickles,Katsuo Ogura +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a deep JHKs-band imaging survey of the W3 Main star forming region, using the near-infrared camera, SIRIUS, mounted on the University of Hawaii 2.2m telescope, is presented.
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A Near-Infrared Study of the NGC 7538 Star-forming Region
Devendra K. Ojha,Motohide Tamura,Yasushi Nakajima,Misato Fukagawa,Koji Sugitani,Chie Nagashima,Takahiro Nagayama,Tetsuya Nagata,Shuji Sato,Sarita Vig,Swarna K. Ghosh,A. Pickles,Munetake Momose,Katsuo Ogura +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented subarcsecond (FWHM ~ 0farcs7), near-infrared (NIR) JHKs-band images and a high-sensitivity radio continuum image at 1280 MHz, using SIRIUS on the University of Hawaii 88 inch (2.2 m) telescope and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT).