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Nicholas M. Law
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications - 430
Citations - 20040
Nicholas M. Law is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Planet & Stars. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 402 publications receiving 17835 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicholas M. Law include California Institute of Technology & University of Toronto.
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The Palomar Transient Factory: system overview, performance and first results
Nicholas M. Law,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Richard Dekany,Eran O. Ofek,Robert M. Quimby,Peter Nugent,Jason Surace,C. Grillmair,Joshua S. Bloom,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Lars Bildsten,Timothy M. Brown,S. Bradley Cenko,David R. Ciardi,Ernest Croner,S. George Djorgovski,Julian C. van Eyken,Alexei V. Filippenko,Derek B. Fox,Avishay Gal-Yam,David Hale,Nouhad Hamam,George Helou,John Henning,D. Andrew Howell,D. Andrew Howell,Janet Jacobsen,Russ R. Laher,S. Mattingly,D. McKenna,A. Pickles,Dovi Poznanski,Dovi Poznanski,Gustavo Rahmer,Arne Rau,Wayne Rosing,Michael M. Shara,Roger M. H. Smith,Dan L. Starr,Dan L. Starr,Mark Sullivan,Viswa Velur,Richard Walters,Jeff Zolkower +43 more
TL;DR: The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) as mentioned in this paper is a fully-automated, wide-field survey aimed at a systematic exploration of the optical transient sky.
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The Palomar Transient Factory: System Overview, Performance and First Results
Nicholas M. Law,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Richard Dekany,Eran O. Ofek,R. M. Quimby,Peter Nugent,Jason Surace,C. Grillmair,Joshua S. Bloom,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Lars Bildsten,Timothy M. Brown,S. B. Cenko,David R. Ciardi,Ernest Croner,S. G. Djorgovski,J. C. van Eyken,Alexei V. Filippenko,D. B. Fox,Avishay Gal-Yam,David Hale,Nouhad Hamam,George Helou,John Henning,D. A. Howell,Janet Jacobsen,R. R. Laher,S. Mattingly,D. McKenna,A. Pickles,Dovi Poznanski,Gustavo Rahmer,A. Rau,Wayne Rosing,Michael M. Shara,Roger M. H. Smith,D. Starr,Mark Sullivan,V. Velur,R. Walters,J. Zolkower +40 more
TL;DR: The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) as mentioned in this paper is a fully-automated, wide-field survey aimed at a systematic exploration of the optical transient sky.
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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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Hydrogen-poor superluminous stellar explosions
R. M. Quimby,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Avishay Gal-Yam,Iair Arcavi,Mark Sullivan,Peter Nugent,R. C. Thomas,D. A. Howell,D. A. Howell,Ehud Nakar,Lars Bildsten,Lars Bildsten,Christopher A. Theissen,Nicholas M. Law,Nicholas M. Law,Richard Dekany,Gustavo Rahmer,David Hale,Roger Smith,Eran O. Ofek,Jeffry Zolkower,Viswa Velur,Robert J. Walters,John Henning,K. Bui,D. McKenna,Dovi Poznanski,Dovi Poznanski,S. B. Cenko,David Levitan +30 more
TL;DR: Observations of a class of luminous supernovae whose properties cannot be explained by any of the following processes: radioactive decay of freshly synthesized elements, explosion shock in the envelope of a supergiant star, and interaction between the debris and slowly moving, hydrogen-rich circumstellar material.
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Supernova SN 2011fe from an exploding carbon–oxygen white dwarf star
Peter Nugent,Peter Nugent,Mark Sullivan,S. Bradley Cenko,R. C. Thomas,Daniel Kasen,Daniel Kasen,D. Andrew Howell,D. Andrew Howell,D. Bersier,Joshua S. Bloom,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,M. T. Kandrashoff,Alexei V. Filippenko,Jeffrey M. Silverman,Geoffrey W. Marcy,Andrew W. Howard,Howard Isaacson,Kate Maguire,Nao Suzuki,J. E. Tarlton,Yen-Chen Pan,Lars Bildsten,Benjamin J. Fulton,Benjamin J. Fulton,Jerod T. Parrent,Jerod T. Parrent,David J. Sand,David J. Sand,Philipp Podsiadlowski,Federica B. Bianco,Federica B. Bianco,Benjamin Dilday,Benjamin Dilday,Melissa L. Graham,Melissa L. Graham,J. D. Lyman,Phil A. James,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Nicholas M. Law,Robert M. Quimby,Isobel Hook,Emma S. Walker,Paolo A. Mazzali,Elena Pian,Eran O. Ofek,Eran O. Ofek,Avishay Gal-Yam,Dovi Poznanski,Dovi Poznanski,Dovi Poznanski +50 more
TL;DR: Early observations of type Ia supernova SN 2011fe in the galaxy M101 at a distance from Earth of 6.4 megaparsecs find that the exploding star was probably a carbon–oxygen white dwarf, and from the lack of an early shock it is concluded that the companion was likely a main-sequence star.