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Robert M. Quimby
Researcher at San Diego State University
Publications - 209
Citations - 17771
Robert M. Quimby is an academic researcher from San Diego State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supernova & Light curve. The author has an hindex of 74, co-authored 209 publications receiving 16205 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert M. Quimby include University of Tokyo & Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe.
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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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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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Illuminating gravitational waves: A concordant picture of photons from a neutron star merger
Mansi M. Kasliwal,Ehud Nakar,Leo Singer,Leo Singer,David L. Kaplan,David O. Cook,A. Van Sistine,R. M. Lau,Christoffer Fremling,Ore Gottlieb,Jacob E. Jencson,Scott M. Adams,U. Feindt,Kenta Hotokezaka,Sourav Ghosh,Daniel A. Perley,Po-Chieh Yu,Tsvi Piran,James R. Allison,James R. Allison,G. C. Anupama,Arvind Balasubramanian,Keith W. Bannister,John Bally,Jennifer Barnes,Sudhanshu Barway,Eric C. Bellm,Varun Bhalerao,Deb Sankar Bhattacharya,Nadejda Blagorodnova,Joshua S. Bloom,Joshua S. Bloom,Patrick Brady,Chris Cannella,Deep Chatterjee,S. B. Cenko,S. B. Cenko,B. E. Cobb,Chris M. Copperwheat,A. Corsi,Kaushik De,Dougal Dobie,Dougal Dobie,Dougal Dobie,S. W. K. Emery,Phil Evans,Ori D. Fox,Dale A. Frail,C. Frohmaier,C. Frohmaier,Ariel Goobar,Gregg Hallinan,Fiona A. Harrison,George Helou,Tanja Hinderer,Anna Y. Q. Ho,Assaf Horesh,Wing-Huen Ip,Ryosuke Itoh,Daniel Kasen,Hyesook Kim,N. P. M. Kuin,Thomas Kupfer,Christene Lynch,Christene Lynch,K. K. Madsen,Paolo A. Mazzali,Paolo A. Mazzali,Adam A. Miller,Adam A. Miller,Kunal Mooley,Tara Murphy,Tara Murphy,Chow-Choong Ngeow,David A. Nichols,Samaya Nissanke,Peter Nugent,Peter Nugent,Eran O. Ofek,H. Qi,Robert M. Quimby,Robert M. Quimby,Stephan Rosswog,Florin Rusu,Elaine M. Sadler,Elaine M. Sadler,Patricia Schmidt,Jesper Sollerman,Iain A. Steele,A. R. Williamson,Y. Xu,Lin Yan,Yoichi Yatsu,C. Zhang,Weijie Zhao +94 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that merging neutron stars are a long-sought production site forging heavy elements by r-process nucleosynthesis, which is dissimilar to classical short gamma-ray bursts with ultrarelativistic jets.
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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.
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SN 2006gy: Discovery of the most luminous supernova ever recorded, powered by the death of an extremely massive star like Eta Carinae
Nathan Smith,Wei Li,Ryan J. Foley,J. Craig Wheeler,D. Pooley,Ryan Chornock,Alexei V. Filippenko,Jeffrey M. Silverman,Robert M. Quimby,Joshua S. Bloom,Charles E. Hansen +10 more
TL;DR: The most luminous supernova ever recorded was SN2006gy as discussed by the authors, which reached a peak magnitude of -22 and had a total radiated energy of 1e51 erg.