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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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Characterization of the Nucleus, Morphology and Activity of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov by Optical and Near-Infrared GROWTH, Apache Point, IRTF, ZTF and Keck Observations
Bryce Bolin,Carey M. Lisse,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Robert M. Quimby,Hanjie Tan,Chris M. Copperwheat,Zhong-Yi Lin,Alessandro Morbidelli,Lyu Abe,P. Bendjoya,James M. Bauer,Kevin B. Burdge,Michael W. Coughlin,Christoffer Fremling,R. Itoh,Michael Koss,Frank J. Masci,Syota Maeno,Eric E. Mamajek,Federico Marocco,K. L. Murata,Jean-Pierre Rivet,Michael L. Sitko,Daniel Stern,D. Vernet,Richard Walters,Lin Yan,Igor Andreoni,Varun Bhalerao,Dennis Bodewits,Kaushik De,Kunal Deshmukh,Eric C. Bellm,Nadejda Blagorodnova,Derek Buzasi,S. Bradley Cenko,Chan-Kao Chang,Drew Chojnowski,Richard Dekany,Dmitry A. Duev,Matthew J. Graham,Mario Juric,Emily Kramer,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Thomas Kupfer,Ashish Mahabal,James D. Neill,Chow-Choong Ngeow,Bryan E. Penprase,Reed Riddle,Hector P. Rodriguez,Philippe Rosnet,Roger Smith,Jesper Sollerman,Maayane T. Soumagnac +54 more
TL;DR: In this paper, visible and near-infrared photometric and spectroscopic observations of 2I/Borisov taken from 2019 September 10 to 2019 November 29 using the GROWTH, the APO ARC 3.5 m and the NASA/IRTF 3.0 m combined with post and pre-discovery observations from 2019 March 17 to 2019 May 5.
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The spirits sample of luminous infrared transients: Uncovering hidden supernovae and dusty stellar outbursts in nearby galaxies
Jacob E. Jencson,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Scott M. Adams,Howard E. Bond,Howard E. Bond,Kaushik De,Joel Johansson,V. Karambelkar,Ryan M. Lau,Samaporn Tinyanont,Stuart D. Ryder,Stuart D. Ryder,Ann Marie Cody,Frank J. Masci,John Bally,Nadejda Blagorodnova,S. Castellon,Christoffer Fremling,Robert D. Gehrz,George Helou,Charles D. Kilpatrick,Peter Milne,Nidia Morrell,Daniel A. Perley,Mark M. Phillips,Nathan Smith,Schuyler D. Van Dyk,Robert E. Williams,Robert E. Williams +28 more
TL;DR: In this article, a systematic study of the most luminous (M IR [Vega magnitudes] brighter than −14) infrared (IR) transients discovered by the SPitzer InfraRed Intensive Transients Survey (SPIRITS) between 2014 and 2018 in nearby galaxies (D 12) show multiple, luminous IR outbursts over several years and have directly detected, massive progenitors in archival imaging.
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The calibration of the WISE W1 and W2 Tully-Fisher relation
James D. Neill,Mark Seibert,R. Brent Tully,Hélène M. Courtois,Jenny G. Sorce,Jenny G. Sorce,Thomas H. Jarrett,Victoria Scowcroft,Frank J. Masci +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Tully-Fisher relation to calibrate the correlation between galaxy rotation rates and luminosities to the all-sky, space-based imaging data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) W1 and W2 (4.6 μm) filters.
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Automated Classification of Periodic Variable Stars detected by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
TL;DR: In this article, a methodology to classify periodic variable stars identified using photometric time-series measurements constructed from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) full-mission single-exposure Source Databases is described.
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Color Me Intrigued: The Discovery of iPTF 16fnm, an SN 2002cx-like Object
Adam A. Miller,Adam A. Miller,Adam A. Miller,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Yi Cao,Scott M. Adams,Ariel Goobar,Sladjana Knežević,R. R. Laher,Ragnhild Lunnan,Frank J. Masci,Peter Nugent,Peter Nugent,Daniel A. Perley,Daniel A. Perley,Tanja Petrushevska,Robert M. Quimby,Robert M. Quimby,Umaa Rebbapragada,Jesper Sollerman,Francesco Taddia,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni +21 more
TL;DR: In this article, the Color Me Intrigued (CME) experiment at the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) was used to search for transients simultaneously in the g PTF and R PTF bands.