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Andrew J. Drake
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 291
Citations - 16599
Andrew J. Drake is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supernova & Light curve. The author has an hindex of 60, co-authored 268 publications receiving 14801 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrew J. Drake include Australian National University & Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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First results from the catalina real-time transient survey
Andrew J. Drake,S. G. Djorgovski,Ashish Mahabal,E. Beshore,S. Larson,Matthew J. Graham,Roy Williams,Eric Christensen,Márcio Catelan,Márcio Catelan,Márcio Catelan,A. Boattini,A. Gibbs,R. Hill,R. A. Kowalski +14 more
TL;DR: The first six months of the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey (CRTS) were reported in this paper, with over 350 unique optical transients rising more than 2 mag from past measurements.
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The MACHO Project: Microlensing Results from 5.7 Years of Large Magellanic Cloud Observations
Charles Alcock,Charles Alcock,R. A. Allsman,David R. Alves,Tim Axelrod,Andrew C. Becker,David P. Bennett,David P. Bennett,Kem H Cook,Kem H Cook,N. Dalal,N. Dalal,Andrew J. Drake,Andrew J. Drake,Kenneth C. Freeman,Marla Geha,Kim Griest,Kim Griest,Matthew J. Lehner,S. L. Marshall,S. L. Marshall,Dante Minniti,C. A. Nelson,C. A. Nelson,Bruce A. Peterson,P. Popowski,M. R. Pratt,Peter J. Quinn,Christopher W. Stubbs,Christopher W. Stubbs,Christopher W. Stubbs,William J. Sutherland,A. B. Tomaney,T. Vandehei,T. Vandehei,Douglas L. Welch +35 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of 5.7 yr of photometry on 11.9 million stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) reveals 13-17 microlensing events, which is significantly more than the 2-4 events expected from lensing by known stellar populations.
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Exploring the Optical Transient Sky with the Palomar Transient Factory
Arne Rau,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Nicholas M. Law,Joshua S. Bloom,David R. Ciardi,George Djorgovski,Derek B. Fox,Avishay Gal-Yam,C. Grillmair,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Peter Nugent,Eran O. Ofek,Robert M. Quimby,William T. Reach,Michael M. Shara,Lars Bildsten,S. Bradley Cenko,Andrew J. Drake,Alexei V. Filippenko,David J. Helfand,George Helou,D. Andrew Howell,D. Andrew Howell,Dovi Poznanski,Dovi Poznanski,Mark Sullivan +25 more
TL;DR: The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) as discussed by the authors is a wide-field experiment designed to investigate the optical transient and variable sky on time scales from minutes to years, and it uses the CFH12k mosaic camera, with a field of view of 7.9 degrees and a plate scale of 1 inch pixel.
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The MACHO Project: Microlensing Results from 5.7 Years of LMC Observations
Charles Alcock,R. A. Allsman,David R. Alves,T. S. Axelrod,A. C. Becker,David P. Bennett,K. H. Cook,Neal Dalal,Andrew J. Drake,Kenneth C. Freeman,Marla Geha,Kim Griest,Matthew J. Lehner,S. L. Marshall,Dante Minniti,C. A. Nelson,Bruce A. Peterson,P. Popowski,Mark Pratt,Peter J. Quinn,Christopher W. Stubbs,William J. Sutherland,A. B. Tomaney,T. Vandehei,D. L. Welch +24 more
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of 5.7 years of photometry on 11.9 million stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) reveals 13 - 17 microlensing events.
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Supernova 2007bi as a pair-instability explosion.
Avishay Gal-Yam,Paolo A. Mazzali,Eran O. Ofek,Peter Nugent,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Mansi M. Kasliwal,R. M. Quimby,Alexei V. Filippenko,S. B. Cenko,Ryan Chornock,Roni Waldman,Daniel Kasen,Mark Sullivan,E. C. Beshore,Andrew J. Drake,R. C. Thomas,Joshua S. Bloom,Dovi Poznanski,Adam A. Miller,Ryan J. Foley,J. M. Silverman,Iair Arcavi,Richard S. Ellis,J. Deng +23 more
TL;DR: Observations of supernova SN 2007bi are reported, a luminous, slowly evolving object located within a dwarf galaxy, and it is shown that >3 of radioactive 56Ni was synthesized during the explosion and that the observations are well fitted by models of pair-instability supernovae.