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Robert Quimby
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 62
Citations - 22503
Robert Quimby 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 38, co-authored 62 publications receiving 20835 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert Quimby include University of Texas at Austin & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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The Palomar Transient Factory Photometric Calibration
Eran O. Ofek,Eran O. Ofek,Russ R. Laher,Nicholas M. Law,Jason Surace,David Levitan,Branimir Sesar,Assaf Horesh,Dovi Poznanski,Dovi Poznanski,J. C. van Eyken,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Peter Nugent,Jeffry Zolkower,R. Walters,Mark Sullivan,Marcel A. Agüeros,Lars Bildsten,Josh Bloom,S. B. Cenko,Avishay Gal-Yam,Carl J. Grillmair,George Helou,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Robert Quimby +24 more
TL;DR: The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) provides multiple epoch imaging for a large fraction of the celestial sphere as discussed by the authors, which enables the calibration of fields that are outside the SDSS footprint.
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Discovery of the Ultra-Bright Type II-L Supernova 2008es
Suvi Gezari,Jules P. Halpern,Dirk Grupe,Fang Yuan,Robert Quimby,Timothy A. McKay,D. Chamarro,M. D. Sisson,Carl W. Akerlof,J. C. Wheeler,Peter J. Brown,S. B. Cenko,Arne Rau,J. O. Djordjevic,Donald M. Terndrup +14 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported the discovery of SN 2008es, an overluminous supernova (SN) at z = 0.205 with a peak visual magnitude of −22.2.
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Spectroscopic observations and analysis of the peculiar SN 1999aa
G. Garavini,Gastón Folatelli,Ariel Goobar,S. Nobili,Greg Aldering,Greg Aldering,Alexis Amadon,Rahman Amanullah,Pierre Astier,Christophe Balland,Christophe Balland,G. Blanc,G. Blanc,M. S. Burns,A. Conley,A. Conley,A. Conley,Tomas Dahlen,Susana E. Deustua,Susana E. Deustua,Richard S. Ellis,Sebastien Fabbro,Xiaohui Fan,Brenda Frye,E. L. Gates,R. Gibbons,Gerson Goldhaber,Gerson Goldhaber,Bertrand Goldman,Donald E. Groom,J. Haissinski,D. Hardin,I. M. Hook,Dale Andrew Howell,Daniel Kasen,Steve Kent,Alex G. Kim,R. A. Knop,Brian C. Lee,Christopher Lidman,Javier Méndez,G. J. Miller,G. J. Miller,M. Moniez,A. Mourao,Heidi Jo Newberg,Peter Nugent,Reynald Pain,O. Perdereau,Saul Perlmutter,V. Prasad,Robert Quimby,J. Raux,N. Regnault,Jeffrey A. Rich,Gordon T. Richards,Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente,G. Sainton,Bradley E. Schaefer,K. Schahmaneche,E. Smith,A. L. Spadafora,Vallery Stanishev,Nicholas A. Walton,L. Wang,W. M. Wood-Vasey,W. M. Wood-Vasey +66 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an extensive time series of spectroscopic data of the peculiar SN 1999aa in NGC 2595 is presented, including 25 optical spectra between -11 and +58 days with respect to B-band maximum light, providing an unusually complete time history.
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Automating Discovery and Classification of Transients and Variable Stars in the Synoptic Survey Era
Joshua S. Bloom,Joshua S. Bloom,Joseph W. Richards,Peter Nugent,Robert Quimby,Robert Quimby,Mansi M. Kasliwal,D. L. Starr,Dovi Poznanski,Eran O. Ofek,S. B. Cenko,Nathaniel R. Butler,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Avishay Gal-Yam,Nicholas M. Law +14 more
TL;DR: The inner workings of a framework, based on machine-learning algorithms, that captures expert training and ground-truth knowledge about the variable and transient sky to automate the process of discovery on image differences, and the generation of preliminary science-type classifications of discovered sources are presented.
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SN 2003du: Signatures of the circumstellar environment in a normal type Ia supernova?
Christopher L. Gerardy,Peter Höflich,Robert A. Fesen,George H Marion,Ken'ichi Nomoto,Robert Quimby,Bradley E. Schaefer,Lifan Wang,J. Craig Wheeler +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a self-consistent spherical delayed-detonation model for the Type Ia supernova 2003du obtained with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope and reported the detection of a high-velocity component in the Ca II infrared triplet near 8000 A, similar to features previously observed in SN 2000cx and SN 2001el.