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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 Blue Supergiant Progenitor of the Supernova Imposter AT~2019krl
Jennifer E. Andrews,Jacob Jencson,Schuyler D. Van Dyk,Jack M. M. Neustadt,Nathan Smith,David J. Sand,K. Kreckel,Christopher S. Kochanek,S. Valenti,Jay Strader,Melina C. Bersten,Guillermo A. Blanc,K. Azalee Bostroem,Thomas G. Brink,Eric Emsellem,Alexei V. Filippenko,Gastón Folatelli,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Frank J. Masci,Rebecca McElroy,Dan Milisavljevic,Francesco Santoro,Tamás Szalai +22 more
TL;DR: In this article, a pre-eruption spectrum of the star reveals strong H$\alpha$ and [N~{\sc ii] emission with wings extending to $\pm 2000$\,km\,s$^{-1}$.
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SN 2018ijp: the explosion of a stripped-envelope star within a dense H-rich shell?
Leonardo Tartaglia,Leonardo Tartaglia,Jesper Sollerman,Cristina Barbarino,Francesco Taddia,Elena Mason,Marco Berton,Kirsty Taggart,Eric C. Bellm,Kaushik De,Sara Frederick,Christoffer Fremling,Avishay Gal-Yam,V. Z. Golkhou,Melissa L. Graham,Anna Y. Q. Ho,Tiara Hung,Stephen Kaye,Y. L. Kim,Russ R. Laher,Frank J. Masci,Daniel A. Perley,Michael D. Porter,Daniel J. Reiley,Reed Riddle,B. Rusholme,Maayane T. Soumagnac,Maayane T. Soumagnac,R. Walters +28 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University to perform the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with the help of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (PS1) and the PS1 public science archive.
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Six Outbursts of Comet 46P/Wirtanen
Michael S. P. Kelley,Tony L. Farnham,Jian-Yang Li,Dennis Bodewits,Colin Snodgrass,Johannes Allen,Eric C. Bellm,Michael W. Coughlin,Andrew Drake,Dmitry A. Duev,Matthew J. Graham,Thomas Kupfer,Frank J. Masci,Daniel J. Reiley,Richard Walters,Martin Dominik,U. G. Jørgensen,A. E. Andrews,N. Bach-Møller,Valerio Bozza,Martin Burgdorf,J. Campbell-White,Sami Dib,Sami Dib,Yuka Fujii,Tobias C. Hinse,Tobias C. Hinse,M. Hundertmark,E. Khalouei,Penélope Longa-Peña,M. Rabus,Sohrab Rahvar,Sedighe Sajadian,Jesper Skottfelt,John Southworth,J. Tregloan-Reed,Eduardo Unda-Sanzana +36 more
TL;DR: Support for this work was provided by the NASA Solar System Observations program (80NSSC20K0673), the Space Telescope Science Institute (HST-GO-15372), the National Science Foundation (PHY-2010970), National Research Foundation (NRF; No. 2019R1I1A1A01059609), the MINEDUC-UA project ESR1795, the European Union H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019 under Grant no. 860470 (CHAMELEON), and by the Novo Nordisk
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A new class of Roche lobe-filling hot subdwarf binaries.
Thomas Kupfer,Evan B. Bauer,Kevin B. Burdge,Jan van Roestel,Eric C. Bellm,Jim Fuller,J. J. Hermes,Tom Marsh,Lars Bildsten,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,E. S. Phinney,Thomas A. Prince,Paula Szkody,Yuhan Yao,Andreas Irrgang,Ulrich Heber,D. Schneider,V. S. Dhillon,Gabriel Murawski,Andrew J. Drake,Dmitry A. Duev,Michael Feeney,Matthew J. Graham,Russ R. Laher,S. P. Littlefair,Ashish Mahabal,Frank J. Masci,Michael Porter,Daniel J. Reiley,Hector P. Rodriguez,Ben Rusholme,David L. Shupe,Maayane T. Soumagnac +32 more
TL;DR: In this article, the second binary with a Roche lobe-filling hot subdwarf transferring mass to a white dwarf (WD) companion was discovered using data from the Zwicky Transient Facility.
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Zwicky Transient Facility and Globular Clusters: the Period-Luminosity and Period-Luminosity-Color Relations for Late-Type Contact Binaries
Chow-Choong Ngeow,Szu-Han Liao,Eric C. Bellm,Dmitry A. Duev,Matthew J. Graham,Ashish Mahabal,Frank J. Masci,Michael Medford,Reed Riddl,Ben Rusholme +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived the $gri$-band periodluminosity (PL) and period-wesenheit (PW) relations for late-type contact binaries located in the globular clusters using the homogeneous light curves collected by the Zwicky Transient Factory (ZTF).