Outputs (142)

Rapidly Evolving and Luminous Transients from Pan-STARRS1 (2014)
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Drout, M., Chornock, R., Soderberg, A., Sanders, N., McKinnon, R., Rest, A., …Waters, C. (2014). Rapidly Evolving and Luminous Transients from Pan-STARRS1. Astrophysical Journal, 794(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/794/1/23

In the past decade, several rapidly evolving transients have been discovered whose timescales and luminosities are not easily explained by traditional supernovae (SNe) models. The sample size of these objects has remained small due, at least in part,... Read More about Rapidly Evolving and Luminous Transients from Pan-STARRS1.

Wide Cool and Ultracool Companions to Nearby Stars from Pan-STARRS 1 (2014)
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Deacon, N., Liu, M., Magnier, E., Aller, K., Best, W., Dupuy, T., …Wainscoat, R. (2014). Wide Cool and Ultracool Companions to Nearby Stars from Pan-STARRS 1. Astrophysical Journal, 792(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/792/2/119

We present the discovery of 57 wide (>5'') separation, low-mass (stellar and substellar) companions to stars in the solar neighborhood identified from Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1) data and the spectral classification of 31 previously known companions. Our comp... Read More about Wide Cool and Ultracool Companions to Nearby Stars from Pan-STARRS 1.

Serendipitous discovery of a thin stellar stream near the Galactic bulge in the Pan-STARRS1 3π Survey (2014)
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Bernard, E., Ferguson, A., Schlafly, E., Abbas, M., Bell, E., Deacon, N., …Waters, C. (2014). Serendipitous discovery of a thin stellar stream near the Galactic bulge in the Pan-STARRS1 3π Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 443(1), L84-L88. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slu089

We report the discovery of a thin stellar stream found in Pan-STARRS1 photometry near the Galactic bulge in the constellation of Ophiuchus. It appears as a coherent structure in the colour-selected stellar density maps produced to search for tidal de... Read More about Serendipitous discovery of a thin stellar stream near the Galactic bulge in the Pan-STARRS1 3π Survey.

Galactic globular and open cluster fiducial sequences in the Pan-STARRS1 photometric system (2014)
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Bernard, E., Ferguson, A., Schlafly, E., Platais, I., Bell, E., Martin, N., …Waters, C. (2014). Galactic globular and open cluster fiducial sequences in the Pan-STARRS1 photometric system. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 442(4), 2999-3009. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1081

We present the fiducial sequences of a sample of Galactic star clusters in the five bands of the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) photometric system (gP1, rP1, iP1, zP1, and yP1). These empirical sequences – which include the red giant and sub-giant branches, the m... Read More about Galactic globular and open cluster fiducial sequences in the Pan-STARRS1 photometric system.

The Complex Structure of Stars in the Outer Galactic Disk as Revealed by Pan-STARRS1 (2014)
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Slater, C., Bell, E., Schlafly, E., Morganson, E., Martin, N., Rix, H., …Waters, C. (2014). The Complex Structure of Stars in the Outer Galactic Disk as Revealed by Pan-STARRS1. Astrophysical Journal, 791(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/791/1/9

We present a panoptic view of the stellar structure in the Galactic disk's outer reaches commonly known as the Monoceros Ring, based on data from Pan-STARRS1. These observations clearly show the large extent of the stellar overdensities on both sides... Read More about The Complex Structure of Stars in the Outer Galactic Disk as Revealed by Pan-STARRS1.

Discovery of a cold stellar stream in the ATLAS DR1 data (2014)
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Koposov, S., Irwin, M., Belokurov, V., Gonzales-Solares, E., Kupcu Yoldas, A., Lewis, J., …Shanks, T. (2014). Discovery of a cold stellar stream in the ATLAS DR1 data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 442(1), L85-L89. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slu060

We report the discovery of a narrow stellar stream crossing the constellations of Sculptor and Fornax in the Southern celestial hemisphere. The portion of the stream detected in the Data Release 1 photometry of the ATLAS survey is at least 12° long,... Read More about Discovery of a cold stellar stream in the ATLAS DR1 data.

A Map of Dust Reddening to 4.5 kpc from Pan-STARRS1 (2014)
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Schlafly, E., Green, G., Finkbeiner, D., Jurić, M., Rix, H., Martin, N., …Waters, C. (2014). A Map of Dust Reddening to 4.5 kpc from Pan-STARRS1. Astrophysical Journal, 789(1), Article 15. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/789/1/15

We present a map of the dust reddening to 4.5 kpc derived from Pan-STARRS1 stellar photometry. The map covers almost the entire sky north of declination –30° at a resolution of 7'-14', and is based on the estimated distances and reddenings to more th... Read More about A Map of Dust Reddening to 4.5 kpc from Pan-STARRS1.

Discovery of Eight z ~ 6 Quasars from Pan-STARRS1 (2014)
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Bañados, E., Venemans, B., Morganson, E., Decarli, R., Walter, F., Chambers, K., …Waters, C. (2014). Discovery of Eight z ~ 6 Quasars from Pan-STARRS1. Astronomical Journal, 148(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/148/1/14

High-redshift quasars are currently the only probes of the growth of supermassive black holes and potential tracers of structure evolution at early cosmic time. Here we present our candidate selection criteria from the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Ra... Read More about Discovery of Eight z ~ 6 Quasars from Pan-STARRS1.

ATLAS lifts the Cup: discovery of a new Milky Way satellite in Crater (2014)
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Belokurov, V., Irwin, M., Koposov, S., Evans, N., Gonzalez-Solares, E., Metcalfe, N., & Shanks, T. (2014). ATLAS lifts the Cup: discovery of a new Milky Way satellite in Crater. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 441(3), 2124-2133. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu626

We announce the discovery of a new Galactic companion found in data from the ESO VST ATLAS survey, and followed up with deep imaging on the 4-m William Herschel Telescope. The satellite is located in the constellation of Crater (the Cup) at a distanc... Read More about ATLAS lifts the Cup: discovery of a new Milky Way satellite in Crater.

A Large Catalog of Accurate Distances to Molecular Clouds from PS1 Photometry (2014)
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Schlafly, E., Green, G., Finkbeiner, D., Rix, H., Bell, E., Burgett, W., …Tonry, J. (2014). A Large Catalog of Accurate Distances to Molecular Clouds from PS1 Photometry. Astrophysical Journal, 786(1), Article 29. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/786/1/29

Distance measurements to molecular clouds are important but are often made separately for each cloud of interest, employing very different data and techniques. We present a large, homogeneous catalog of distances to molecular clouds, most of which ar... Read More about A Large Catalog of Accurate Distances to Molecular Clouds from PS1 Photometry.