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Frank J. Masci

Researcher at California Institute of Technology

Publications -  482
Citations -  27173

Frank J. Masci is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supernova & Galaxy. The author has an hindex of 68, co-authored 447 publications receiving 22588 citations. Previous affiliations of Frank J. Masci include Australian Bureau of Statistics & University of California, San Diego.

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The zwicky transient facility: System overview, performance, and first results

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TL;DR: The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) as mentioned in this paper is a new optical time-domain survey that uses the Palomar 48 inch Schmidt telescope, which provides a 47 deg^2 field of view and 8 s readout time, yielding more than an order of magnitude improvement in survey speed relative to its predecessor survey.
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Obscured and unobscured active galactic nuclei in the Spitzer Space Telescope First Look Survey

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the Spitzer Space Telescope First Look Survey (FLS) to assess the fraction of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with mid-infrared luminosities that are comparable to quasars and that are missed in optical quasar surveys because of dust obscuration.