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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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A Twilight Search for Atiras, Vatiras and Co-orbital Asteroids: Preliminary Results
Quanzhi Ye,Frank J. Masci,Wing-Huen Ip,Wing-Huen Ip,Thomas A. Prince,George Helou,Davide Farnocchia,Eric C. Bellm,Richard Dekany,Matthew J. Graham,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Thomas Kupfer,Ashish Mahabal,Chow-Choong Ngeow,Daniel J. Reiley,Maayane T. Soumagnac,Maayane T. Soumagnac +16 more
TL;DR: The ZTF twilight survey operates at solar elongations down to $35^\circ$ with limiting magnitude of 19.5$ during a total of 40 evening sessions and 62 morning sessions conducted between 2018 November 15 and 2019 June 23, including 6 Atiras, including 2 new discoveries 2019 AQ$_3$ and 2019 LF$_6$ but no Vatiras or Earth/Venus co-orbital asteroids as mentioned in this paper.
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The progenitor of the supernova imposter AT 2019krl: a SN 2008S-like transient from a blue supergiant
Jennifer Andrews,J. E. Jencson,Schuyler D. Van Dyk,J. M. M. Neustadt,Nathan Smith,David J. Sand,Kathryn Kreckel,Christopher S. Kochanek,S. Valenti,Jay Strader,Melina C. Bersten,Melina C. Bersten,Melina C. Bersten,Guillermo A. Blanc,Guillermo A. Blanc,K. Azalee Bostroem,T. G. Brink,Eric Emsellem,Eric Emsellem,Alexei V. Filippenko,Alexei V. Filippenko,Gastón Folatelli,Gastón Folatelli,Gastón Folatelli,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Frank J. Masci,Rebecca McElroy,Dan Milisavljevic,F. Santoro,Tamás Szalai,Tamás Szalai +30 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a pre-eruption spectrum of the star reveals strong H$\alpha$ emission having a narrow line core with a width of about 200 km s$^{-1}$ (FWHM) and with wings extending to approximately 2000 km s.
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SN 2020bqj: a Type Ibn supernova with a long lasting peak plateau
E. C. Kool,Emir Karamehmetoglu,Jesper Sollerman,Steve Schulze,Ragnhild Lunnan,T. M. Reynolds,Cristina Barbarino,Eric C. Bellm,Kaushik De,Dmitry A. Duev,Christoffer Fremling,V. Z. Golkhou,Melissa L. Graham,David A. Green,Assaf Horesh,Stephen Kaye,Y.-L. Kim,Russ R. Laher,Frank J. Masci,Jakob Nordin,Daniel A. Perley,E. S. Phinney,Michael Porter,Daniel J. Reiley,Hector P. Rodriguez,J. van Roestel,B. Rusholme,Yashvi Sharma,Itai Sfaradi,Maayane T. Soumagnac,Maayane T. Soumagnac,Kirsty Taggart,Leonardo Tartaglia,David R. Williams,Lin Yan +34 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the discovery and study of SN 2020bqj (ZTF20aalrqbu), a supernova with a long-duration peak plateau lasting 40 days and hosted by a faint low-mass galaxy is presented.
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Time-series and Phase-curve Photometry of the Episodically Active Asteroid (6478) Gault in a Quiescent State Using APO, GROWTH, P200, and ZTF
Josiah N. Purdum,Zhong-Yi Lin,Bryce Bolin,Kritti Sharma,Philip Choi,Varun Bhalerao,Josef Hanus,Harsh Kumar,Robert M. Quimby,Robert M. Quimby,Joannes van Roestel,Chengxing Zhai,Yanga R. Fernandez,Carey M. Lisse,Dennis Bodewits,Christoffer Fremling,Nathan Golovich,Chen Yen Hsu,Wing-Huen Ip,Chow-Choong Ngeow,Navtej Saini,Michael Shao,Yuhan Yao,Tomas Ahumada,Shreya Anand,Igor Andreoni,Kevin B. Burdge,Rick Burruss,Chan-Kao Chang,Chris M. Copperwheat,Michael W. Coughlin,Kaushik De,Richard Dekany,Alexandre Delacroix,Andrew J. Drake,Dmitry A. Duev,Matthew J. Graham,David Hale,Erik C. Kool,Erik C. Kool,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Iva S. Kostadinova,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Russ R. Laher,Ashish Mahabal,Frank J. Masci,P. Mróz,James D. Neill,Reed Riddle,Hector Rodriguez,Roger Smith,Richard Walters,Lin Yan,Jeffry Zolkower +53 more
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Multiwavelength approach to classifying transient events in the direction of M 31
Monika Soraisam,Marat Gilfanov,Thomas Kupfer,Thomas A. Prince,Frank J. Masci,Russ R. Laher,Albert K. H. Kong +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, an extremely bright and rapid transient event during optical observations of the M 31 galaxy taken by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) was discovered.