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A. Rau
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 168
Citations - 8665
A. Rau is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gamma-ray burst & Galaxy. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 168 publications receiving 8179 citations. Previous affiliations of A. Rau include University of Hamburg.
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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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Relativistic ejecta from X-ray flash XRF 060218 and the rate of cosmic explosions
Alicia M. Soderberg,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Ehud Nakar,Edo Berger,P. B. Cameron,D. B. Fox,Dale A. Frail,Avishay Gal-Yam,Re'em Sari,S. B. Cenko,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Roger A. Chevalier,Tsvi Piran,P. A. Price,Brian P. Schmidt,Guy G. Pooley,D. S. Moon,Bryan E. Penprase,Eran O. Ofek,A. Rau,N. Gehrels,J. A. Nousek,D. N. Burrows,S. E. Persson,P. J. McCarthy +24 more
TL;DR: Radio and X-ray observations of XRF 060218 (associated with supernova SN 2006aj), the second-nearest GRB identified until now, are reported, showing that this event is a hundred times less energetic but ten times more common than cosmological GRBs.
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An extremely luminous X-ray outburst at the birth of a supernova
Alicia M. Soderberg,Alicia M. Soderberg,Edo Berger,Edo Berger,K. L. Page,Patricia Schady,Jerod T. Parrent,David Pooley,Xiang-Yu Wang,Eran O. Ofek,A. Cucchiara,A. Rau,Eli Waxman,Joshua D. Simon,Douglas C.-J. Bock,Peter Milne,M. J. Page,J. C. Barentine,Scott Barthelmy,A. P. Beardmore,Michael Bietenholz,Peter J. Brown,Adam Burrows,David N. Burrows,G. Byrngelson,Stephen Bradley Cenko,Poonam Chandra,Jay Cummings,D. B. Fox,Avishay Gal-Yam,Neil Gehrels,Stefan Immler,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Albert K. H. Kong,Hans A. Krimm,Hans A. Krimm,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Thomas J. Maccarone,Peter Mészáros,Ehud Nakar,P. T. O'Brien,Roderik Overzier,M. de Pasquale,Judith Racusin,Nanda Rea,Donald G. York +45 more
TL;DR: This work reports the serendipitous discovery of a supernova at the time of the explosion, marked by an extremely luminous X-ray outburst, and attributes the outburst to the ‘break-out’ of the supernova shock wave from the progenitor star, and shows that the inferred rate of such events agrees with that of all core-collapse supernovae.
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Photometric redshift and classification for the xmm-cosmos sources ∗
Mara Salvato,Günther Hasinger,Olivier Ilbert,Gianni Zamorani,Marcella Brusa,Nick Scoville,A. Rau,Peter Capak,Stephane Arnouts,Herve Aussel,M. Bolzonella,A. Buongiorno,Nico Cappelluti,Karina Caputi,Francesca Civano,R. Cook,R. Cook,R. Cook,Martin Elvis,Roberto Gilli,Knud Jahnke,Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe,Chris Impey,F. Lamareille,E. Le Floc'h,Simon J. Lilly,Vincenzo Mainieri,Patrick J. McCarthy,H. J. McCracken,M. Mignoli,Bahram Mobasher,T. Murayama,Shunji S. Sasaki,D. B. Sanders,D. Schiminovich,Yasuhiro Shioya,Patrick L. Shopbell,John D. Silverman,Vernesa Smolčić,Jason Surace,Yoshiaki Taniguchi,D. Thompson,Jonathan R. Trump,Meg Urry,Michel Zamojski,Michel Zamojski +45 more
TL;DR: In this article, the spectral energy distribution (SED) and photometric redshifts were derived for a sample of 1542 optically identified sources detected with XMM in the COSMOS field.
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NEARBY SUPERNOVA FACTORY OBSERVATIONS OF SN 2007if: FIRST TOTAL MASS MEASUREMENT OF A SUPER-CHANDRASEKHAR-MASS PROGENITOR
Richard Scalzo,Greg Aldering,P. Antilogus,Cecilia Aragon,S. Bailey,C. Baltay,S. Bongard,C. Buton,C. Buton,M. J. Childress,N. Chotard,N. Chotard,Y. Copin,Y. Copin,H. K. Fakhouri,Avishay Gal-Yam,E. Gangler,E. Gangler,Sergio Hoyer,Sergio Hoyer,Mansi M. Kasliwal,S. C. Loken,Peter Nugent,Reynald Pain,E. Pecontal,R. Pereira,R. Pereira,Saul Perlmutter,David Rabinowitz,A. Rau,G. Rigaudier,K. Runge,G. Smadja,Charling Tao,R. C. Thomas,Benjamin A. Weaver,C. Wu +36 more
TL;DR: In this paper, photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2007if, an overluminous (M_V = −20.4), red (B-V = 0.16 at B-band maximum), slow-rising (t_(rise) = 24 days) type Ia supernova (SN Ia) in a very faint (m_g = −14.10) host galaxy.