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Shrinivas R. Kulkarni
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 1013
Citations - 79715
Shrinivas R. Kulkarni 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 132, co-authored 978 publications receiving 72490 citations. Previous affiliations of Shrinivas R. Kulkarni include Centre national de la recherche scientifique & University of California, Berkeley.
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The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
Neil Gehrels,G. Chincarini,G. Chincarini,Paolo Giommi,Keith O. Mason,John A. Nousek,Alan A. Wells,Nicholas E. White,S. D. Barthelmy,David N. Burrows,L. R. Cominsky,Kevin Hurley,F. E. Marshall,Peter Mészáros,Peter W. A. Roming,Lorella Angelini,Lorella Angelini,L. M. Barbier,Tomaso Belloni,Sergio Campana,P. A. Caraveo,M. M. Chester,O. Citterio,T. L. Cline,Mark Cropper,Jay Cummings,Jay Cummings,A. J. Dean,Eric D. Feigelson,E. E. Fenimore,Dale A. Frail,A. S. Fruchter,Gordon P. Garmire,Keith C. Gendreau,Gabriele Ghisellini,Jochen Greiner,Joanne E. Hill,S. D. Hunsberger,Hans A. Krimm,Hans A. Krimm,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Pawan Kumar,F. Lebrun,Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning,Craig B. Markwardt,Craig B. Markwardt,Barbara J. Mattson,Barbara J. Mattson,Richard Mushotzky,Jay P. Norris,J. P. Osborne,Bohdan Paczynski,David Palmer,H.-S. Park,A. M. Parsons,J. A. Paul,Martin J. Rees,Christopher S. Reynolds,James E. Rhoads,T. P. Sasseen,Bradley E. Schaefer,A. Short,Alan P. Smale,Alan P. Smale,Ian Smith,Luigi Stella,Gianpiero Tagliaferri,Tadayuki Takahashi,Makoto Tashiro,Leisa K. Townsley,Jack Tueller,Martin J. L. Turner,M. Vietri,Wolfgang Voges,Martin Ward,Richard Willingale,F. M. Zerbi,W. W. Zhang +77 more
TL;DR: The Swift mission as discussed by the authors is a multi-wavelength observatory for gamma-ray burst (GRB) astronomy, which is a first-of-its-kind autonomous rapid-slewing satellite for transient astronomy and pioneers the way for future rapid-reaction and multiwavelength missions.
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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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Beaming in gamma-ray bursts: evidence for a standard energy reservoir
Dale A. Frail,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Re'em Sari,S. G. Djorgovski,Joshua S. Bloom,Titus Galama,Daniel E. Reichart,Edo Berger,Fiona A. Harrison,P. A. Price,S. A. Yost,A. Diercks,Robert W. Goodrich,Frederic H. Chaffee +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive sample of all gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows with known distances is presented, and their conical opening angles are derived based on observed broadband breaks in their light curves.
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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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LSST Science Book, Version 2.0
Paul A. Abell,J. Allison,Scott F. Anderson,John Andrew,J.Roger P. Angel,Lee Armus,David Arnett,S. Asztalos,Tim Axelrod,Stephen Bailey,David R. Ballantyne,J. Bankert,Wayne A. Barkhouse,Jeffrey D. Barr,L. Felipe Barrientos,Aaron J. Barth,James G. Bartlett,Andrew C. Becker,Jacek Becla,Timothy C. Beers,Joseph P. Bernstein,Rahul Biswas,Michael R. Blanton,Joshua S. Bloom,John J. Bochanski,P. Boeshaar,Kirk D. Borne,Marusa Bradac,W. N. Brandt,Carrie Bridge,Michael E. Brown,Robert J. Brunner,James S. Bullock,Adam J. Burgasser,J. H. Burge,D. L. Burke,Phillip Cargile,Srinivasan Chandrasekharan,George Chartas,Steven R. Chesley,You-Hua Chu,D. Cinabro,Mark Claire,Charles F. Claver,Douglas Clowe,A. J. Connolly,Kem H. Cook,Jeff Cooke,Asantha Cooray,Kevin R. Covey,Christopher S. Culliton,Roelof S. de Jong,Willem H. de Vries,Victor P. Debattista,Francisco Delgado,Ian P. Dell'Antonio,Saurav Dhital,Rosanne Di Stefano,Mark Dickinson,Benjamin Dilday,S. G. Djorgovski,Gregory Dobler,Ciro Donalek,G. P. Dubois-Felsmann,Josef Durech,Ardis Eliasdottir,Michael Eracleous,Laurent Eyer,Emilio E. Falco,Xiaohui Fan,Christopher D. Fassnacht,Henry C. Ferguson,Yanga R. Fernandez,Brian D. Fields,Douglas P. Finkbeiner,Eduardo E. Figueroa,Derek B. Fox,Harold Francke,James Frank,Josh Frieman,S. Fromenteau,Muhammad Furqan,Gaspar Galaz,Avishay Gal-Yam,Peter M. Garnavich,Eric Gawiser,John C. Geary,Perry M. Gee,Robert R. Gibson,Kirk Gilmore,E. Grace,Richard F. Green,William J. Gressler,Carl J. Grillmair,Salman Habib,J. S. Haggerty,Mario Hamuy,Alan W. Harris,Suzanne L. Hawley,Alan Heavens,Leslie Hebb,Todd J. Henry,Edward Hileman,Eric J. Hilton,Keri Hoadley,Jay B. Holberg,M. J. Holman,Steve B. Howell,Leopoldo Infante,Zeljko Ivezic,Suzanne Jacoby,Bhuvnesh Jain,Jedicke,M. James Jee,J. Garrett Jernigan,Saurabh Jha,Kathryn V. Johnston,R. Lynne Jones,Mario Juric,Mikko Kaasalainen,Styliani,Kafka,Steven M. Kahn,Nathan A. Kaib,Jason S. Kalirai,J. Kantor,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Charles R. Keeton,Richard Kessler,Zoran Knezevic,Adam F. Kowalski,V. Krabbendam,K. Simon Krughoff,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Stephen Kuhlman,Mark Lacy,Sébastien Lépine,Ming Liang,A. Y. Lien,Paulina Lira,Knox S. Long,S. Lorenz,Jennifer M. Lotz,Robert H. Lupton,Julie Lutz,Lucas M. Macri,Ashish Mahabal,Rachel Mandelbaum,Phil Marshall,Morgan May,Peregrine M. McGehee,Brian Meadows,Alan Meert,Andrea Milani,Christopher J. Miller,M. L. Miller,David J. Mills,Dante Minniti,David G. Monet,Anjum S. Mukadam,Ehud Nakar,Douglas R. Neill,Jeffrey A. Newman,Sergei Nikolaev,Martin Nordby,Paul O'Connor,Masamune Oguri,John Oliver,Scot S. Olivier,Julia K. Olsen,Knut Olsen,Edward W. Olszewski,Hakeem M. Oluseyi,Nelson Padilla,Alex Parker,Joshua Pepper,John R. Peterson,Catherine Petry,Philip A. Pinto,James Pizagno,Bogdan Popescu,Andrej Prsa,Veljko Radcka,M. Jordan Raddick,Andrew P. Rasmussen,Arne Rau,Jeonghee Rho,James E. Rhoads,Gordon T. Richards,Stephen T. Ridgway,Brant Robertson,Rok Roškar,Abhijit Saha,Ata Sarajedini,Evan Scannapieco,T. Schalk,Rafe Schindler,Samuel Schmidt,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,German Schumacher,Ryan Scranton,Jacques Sebag,Lynn G. Seppala,Ohad Shemmer,Joshua D. Simon,M. Sivertz,Howard A. Smith,J. Allyn Smith,Nathan Smith,Anna H. Spitz,A. Stanford,Keivan G. Stassun,Jay Strader,Michael A. Strauss,Christopher W. Stubbs,Donald W. Sweeney,Alexander S. Szalay,Paula Szkody,Masahiro Takada,Paul Thorman,David Trilling,Virginia Trimble,Anthony Tyson,Richard Van Berg,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Jake Vanderplas,Licia Verde,Bojan Vrsnak,Lucianne M. Walkowicz,Benjamin D. Wandelt,Sheng Wang,Yun Wang,Michael Warner,Risa H. Wechsler,Andrew A. West,Oliver Wiecha,Benjamin F. Williams,Beth Willman,David Wittman,Sidney C. Wolff,W. Michael Wood-Vasey,P. Wozniak,Patrick A. Young,Andrew R. Zentner,Hu Zhan +245 more
TL;DR: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) as discussed by the authors will have an effective aperture of 6.7 meters and an imaging camera with field of view of 9.6 degrees.