Browsing by Author "Stubbs, Christopher"

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    • A Robust Quantification of Galaxy Cluster Morphology Using Asymmetry and Central Concentration 

      Nurgaliev, Daniyar Rashidovich; McDonald, M.; Benson, B. A.; Miller, E. D.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Viklinin, Alexey A. (American Astronomical Society, 2013)
      We present a novel quantitative scheme of cluster classification based on the morphological properties that are manifested in X-ray images. We use a conventional radial surface brightness concentration parameter (c_SB) as ...

    • The Sakharov Conditions, Disruptive Technologies, and Human Rights 

      Stubbs, Christopher William (Hoover Institution Press, 2015)

    • A Search for Fast Optical Transients in the Pan-Starrs1 Medium-Deep Survey: M Dwarf Flares, Asteroids, Limits on Extragalactic Rates, and Implications for Lsst 

      Berger, Edo; Leibler, C. N.; Chornock, R.; Rest, A.; Foley, R. J.; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Price, P. A.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Flewelling, H.; Huber, M. E.; Magnier, E. A.; Metcalfe, N.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Tonry, J. L. (IOP Publishing, 2013)
      We present a search for fast optical transients (τ ∼ 0.5hr − 1d) using repeated observations of the PanSTARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey (PS1/MDS) fields. Our search takes advantage of the consecutive gP1rP1 observations (16.5 ...

    • A Search for Fast Optical Transients in the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey: M-Dwarf Flares, Asteroids, Limits on Extragalactic Rates, and Implications for LSST 

      Berger, Edo; Leibler, C. N.; Chornock, Ryan T.; Rest, A.; Foley, R. J.; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Price, P. A.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Flewelling, H.; Huber, M. E.; Magnier, E. A.; Metcalfe, N.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Tonry, J. L. (American Astronomical Society, 2013)
      We present a search for fast optical transients (τ ~ 0.5 hr-1 day) using repeated observations of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey (PS1/MDS) fields. Our search takes advantage of the consecutive g P1 r P1 observations ...

    • Selecting superluminous supernovae in faint galaxies from the first year of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey 

      McCrum, M.; Smartt, S. J.; Rest, A.; Smith, K.; Kotak, R.; Rodney, S. A.; Young, D. R.; Chornock, R.; Berger, Edo; Foley, R. J.; Fraser, M.; Wright, D.; Scolnic, D.; Tonry, J. L.; Urata, Y.; Huang, K.; Pastorello, A.; Botticella, M. T.; Valenti, S.; Mattila, S.; Kankare, E.; Farrow, D. J.; Huber, M. E.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Kirshner, Robert P.; Bresolin, F.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Draper, P. W.; Flewelling, H.; Jedicke, R.; Kaiser, N.; Magnier, E. A.; Metcalfe, N.; Morgan, J. S.; Price, P. A.; Sweeney, W.; Wainscoat, R. J.; Waters, C. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015)
      The Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) survey has obtained imaging in five bands (griz yP1) over 10 Medium Deep Survey (MDS) fields covering a total of 70 square degrees. This paper describes the search for apparently hostless supernovae ...

    • Selection of Burst-Like Transients and Stochastic Variables Using Multi-Band Image Differencing in the Pan-Starrs1 Medium-Deep Survey 

      Kumar, S.; Gezari, S.; Heinis, S.; Chornock, R; Berger, Edo; Rest, A.; Huber, M. E.; Foley, R. J.; Narayan, G.; Marion, G. H.; Scolnic, D.; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Lawrence, A.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Kirshner, Robert P.; Riess, A. G.; Smartt, S. J.; Smith, K.; Wood-Vasey, W. M.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Flewelling, H.; Kaiser, N.; Metcalfe, N.; Price, P. A.; Tonry, J. L.; Wainscoat, R. J. (IOP Publishing, 2015)
      We present a novel method for the light-curve characterization of Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey (PS1 MDS) extragalactic sources into stochastic variables (SVs) and burst-like (BL) transients, using multi-band image-differencing ...

    • Sky Variability in the y Band at the LSST Site 

      High, F. William; Stubbs, Christopher William; Stalder, Brian A.; Gilmore, David Kirk; Tonry, John L. (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
      We have measured spatial and temporal variability in the y-band sky brightness over the course of four nights above Cerro Tololo near Cerro Pachon, Chile, the planned site for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). ...

    • Slowly Fading Super-Luminous Supernovae That Are Not Pair-Instability Explosions 

      Nicholl, M.; Smartt, S. J.; Jerkstrand, A.; Inserra, C.; McCrum, M.; Kotak, R.; Fraser, M.; Wright, D.; Chen, T.-W.; Smith, K.; Young, D. R.; Sim, S. A.; Valenti, S.; Howell, D. A.; Bresolin, F.; Kudritzki, R. P.; Tonry, J. L.; Huber, M. E.; Rest, A.; Pastorello, A.; Tomasella, L.; Cappellaro, E.; Benetti, S.; Mattila, S.; Kankare, E.; Kangas, T.; Leloudas, G.; Sollerman, J.; Taddia, F.; Berger, E.; Chornock, Ryan T.; Narayan, Gautham Siddharth; Stubbs, Christopher William; Foley, R. J.; Lunnan, Ragnhild; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Sanders, Nathan Edward; Milisavljevic, Danny; Margutti, Raffaella; Kirshner, Robert P.; Elias-Rosa, N.; Morales-Garoffolo, A.; Taubenberger, S.; Botticella, M. T.; Gezari, S.; Urata, Y.; Rodney, S.; Riess, A. G.; Scolnic, D.; Wood-Vasey, W. M.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K.; Flewelling, H. A.; Magnier, E. A.; Kaiser, N.; Metcalfe, N.; Morgan, J.; Price, P. A.; Sweeney, W.; Waters, C. (Nature Publishing Group, 2013)
      Super-luminous supernovae that radiate more than 10\(^{44}\) ergs per second at their peak luminosity have recently been discovered in faint galaxies at redshifts of 0.1–4. Some evolve slowly, resembling models of ...

    • Sn 2010ay Is a Luminous and Broad-Lined Type Ic Supernova Within a Low-Metallicity Host Galaxy 

      Sanders, Nathan Edward; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Valenti, S.; Foley, R. J.; Chornock, R; Chomiuk, L; Berger, Edo; Smartt, S.; Hurley, K.; Barthelmy, S. D.; Levesque, E. M.; Narayan, G.; Botticella, M. T.; Briggs, M. S.; Connaughton, V.; Terada, Y.; Gehrels, N.; Golenetskii, S.; Mazets, E.; Cline, T.; von Kienlin, A.; Boynton, W.; Chambers, K. C.; Grav, T.; Heasley, J. N.; Hodapp, K. W.; Jedicke, R.; Kaiser, N.; Kirshner, Robert P.; Kudritzki, R.-P.; Luppino, G. A.; Lupton, R. H.; Magnier, E. A.; Monet, D. G.; Morgan, J. S.; Onaka, P. M.; Price, P. A.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Tonry, J. L.; Wainscoat, R. J.; Waterson, M. F. (IOP Publishing, 2012)
      We report on our serendipitous pre-discovery detection and detailed follow-up of the broad-lined Type Ic supernova (SN) 2010ay at z = 0.067 imaged by the Pan-STARRS1 3π survey just ∼ 4 days after explosion. The SN had a ...

    • Solar System Constraints on the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati Braneworld Theory of Gravity 

      Battat, James; Stubbs, Christopher William; Chandler, John F. (American Physical Society, 2008)
      A number of proposals have been put forward to account for the observed accelerating expansion of the Universe through modifications of gravity. One specific scenario, Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (DGP) gravity, gives rise to ...

    • SPT-CL J0205–5829: A z = 1.32 Evolved Massive Galaxy Cluster in the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Survey 

      Stalder, Brian A; Ruel, Jonathan; Šuhada, R.; Brodwin, M.; Aird, K. A.; Andersson, K.; Armstrong, R.; Ashby, Matthew L N; Bautz, M.; Bayliss, Matthew; Bazin, G.; Benson, B. A.; Bleem, L. E.; Carlstrom, J. E.; Chang, C. L.; Cho, H. M.; Clocchiatti, A.; Crawford, T. M.; Crites, A. T.; de Haan, T.; Desai, S.; Dobbs, M. A.; Dudley, J. P.; Foley, R. J.; Forman, William R.; George, E. M.; Gettings, D.; Gladders, M. D.; Gonzalez, A. H.; Halverson, N. W.; Harrington, N. L.; High, F. W.; Holder, G. P.; Holzapfel, W. L.; Hoover, S.; Hrubes, J. D.; Jones, C.; Joy, M.; Keisler, R.; Knox, L.; Lee, A. T.; Leitch, E. M.; Liu, J.; Lueker, M.; Luong-Van, D.; Mantz, A.; Marrone, D. P.; McDonald, M.; McMahon, J. J.; Mehl, J.; Meyer, S. S.; Mocanu, L.; Mohr, J. J.; Montroy, T. E.; Murray, Stephen S.; Natoli, T.; Nurgaliev, Daniyar Rashidovich; Padin, S.; Plagge, T.; Pryke, C.; Reichardt, C. L.; Rest, A.; Ruhl, J. E.; Saliwanchik, B. R.; Saro, A.; Sayre, J. T.; Schaffer, K. K.; Shaw, L.; Shirokoff, E.; Song, J.; Spieler, H. G.; Stanford, S. A.; Staniszewski, Z.; Stark, Antony A.; Story, K.; Stubbs, Christopher William; van Engelen, A.; Vanderlinde, K.; Vieira, J. D.; Vikhlinin, Alexey A.; Williamson, R.; Zahn, O.; Zenteno, A. (American Astronomical Society / IOP Publishing, 2013)
      The galaxy cluster SPT-CL J0205–5829 currently has the highest spectroscopically confirmed redshift, z = 1.322, in the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SPT-SZ) survey. XMM-Newton observations measure a core-excluded ...

    • Stellar Locus Regression: Accurate Color Calibration, and the Real-time Determination of Galaxy Cluster Photometric Redshifts 

      High, F. William; Stubbs, Christopher William; Rest, Armin Wolfgang; Stalder, Brian A; Challis, Peter (American Astronomical Society, 2009)
      We present Stellar Locus Regression (SLR), a method of directly adjusting the instrumental broadband optical colors of stars to bring them into accord with a universal stellar color-color locus, producing accurately ...

    • A Study of the Radial and Azimuthal Gas Distribution in Massive Galaxy Clusters 

      Nurgaliev, Daniyar Rashidovich (2014-06-06)
      Clusters of galaxies are particularly interesting astrophysical systems, are the largest bound structures in the Universe, and contain fair sample of cosmic ingredients. Studies of cluster abundance as a function of mass ...

    • Supercal: Cross-Calibration of Multiple Photometric Systems to Improve Cosmological Measurements with Type Ia Supernovae 

      Scolnic, D.; Casertano, S.; Riess, A.; Rest, A.; Schlafly, E.; Foley, R. J.; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Tang, C.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Draper, P. W.; Flewelling, H.; Hodapp, K. W.; Huber, M. E.; Kaiser, N.; Kudritzki, R. P.; Magnier, E. A.; Metcalfe, N.; Stubbs, Christopher William (IOP Publishing, 2015)
      Current cosmological analyses which use Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) observations combine SN samples to expand the redshift range beyond that of a single sample and increase the overall sample size. The inhomogeneous photometric ...

    • The superluminous supernova PS1-11ap: bridging the gap between low and high redshift 

      McCrum, M.; Smartt, S. J.; Kotak, R.; Rest, A.; Jerkstrand, A.; Inserra, C.; Rodney, S. A.; Chen, T.- W.; Howell, D. A.; Huber, M. E.; Pastorello, A.; Tonry, J. L.; Bresolin, F.; Kudritzki, R.- P.; Chornock, R.; Berger, Edo; Smith, K.; Botticella, M. T.; Foley, R. J.; Fraser, M.; Milisavljevic, Danny; Nicholl, M.; Riess, A. G.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Valenti, S.; Wood-Vasey, W. M.; Wright, D.; Young, D. R.; Drout, Maria Rebecca; Czekala, Ian Philip; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Draper, P.; Flewelling, H.; Hodapp, K. W.; Kaiser, N.; Magnier, E. A.; Metcalfe, N.; Price, P. A.; Sweeney, W.; Wainscoat, R. J. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013)
      We present optical photometric and spectroscopic coverage of the superluminous supernova (SLSN) PS1-11ap, discovered with the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey at z = 0.524. This intrinsically blue transient rose slowly to ...

    • Systematic Uncertainties Associated with the Cosmological Analysis of the First Pan-STARRS1 Type Ia Supernova Sample 

      Scolnic, D.; Rest, A.; Riess, A.; Huber, M. E.; Foley, R. J.; Brout, D.; Chornock, R.; Narayan, G.; Tonry, J. L.; Berger, Edo; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Kirshner, Robert P.; Rodney, S.; Smartt, S. J.; Schlafly, E.; Botticella, M. T.; Challis, P.; Czekala, I.; Drout, M.; Hudson, M. J.; Kotak, R.; Leibler, C.; Lunnan, R.; Marion, G. H.; McCrum, M.; Milisavljevic, Danny; Pastorello, A.; Sanders, Nathan Edward; Smith, K.; Stafford, E.; Thilker, D.; Valenti, S.; Wood-Vasey, W. M.; Zheng, Z.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Denneau, L.; Draper, P. W.; Flewelling, H.; Hodapp, K. W.; Kaiser, N.; Kudritzki, R.-P.; Magnier, E. A.; Metcalfe, N.; Price, P. A.; Sweeney, W.; Wainscoat, R.; Waters, C. (IOP Publishing, 2014)
      We probe the systematic uncertainties from the 113 Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) in the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) sample along with 197 SN Ia from a combination of low-redshift surveys. The companion paper by Rest et al. (2013) ...

    • The Ultraviolet-Bright, Slowly Declining Transient PS1-11af as a Partial Tidal Disruption Event. 

      Chornock, R.; Berger, Edo; Gezari, S.; Zauderer, Bevin Ashley; Rest, A.; Chomiuk, L.; Kamble, Atish; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Czekala, Ian Philip; Dittmann, Jason Adam; Drout, Maria Rebecca; Foley, R. J.; Fong, W; Huber, M. E.; Kirshner, Robert P.; Lawrence, A.; Lunnan, Ragnhild; Marion, G. H.; Narayan, Gautham Siddharth; Riess, A. G.; Roth, K. C.; Sanders, Nathan Edward; Scolnic, D.; Smartt, S. J.; Smith, K.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Tonry, J. L.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Flewelling, H.; Hodapp, K. W.; Kaiser, N.; Magnier, E. A.; Martin, D. C.; Neill, J. D.; Price, P. A.; Wainscoat, R. (IOP Publishing, 2013)
      We present the Pan-STARRS1 discovery of the long-lived and blue transient PS1-11af, which was also detected by Galaxy Evolution Explorer with coordinated observations in the near-ultraviolet (NUV) band. PS1-11af is associated ...

    • An Ultraviolet–Optical Flare from the Tidal Disruption of a Helium-Rich Stellar Core 

      Gezari, S.; Chornock, Ryan T.; Rest, A.; Huber, M. E.; Forster, K.; Berger, Edo; Challis, Peter J.; Neill, J. D.; Martin, D. C.; Heckman, T.; Lawrence, A.; Norman, C.; Narayan, Gautham Siddharth; Foley, R. J.; Marion, G. H.; Scolnic, D.; Chomiuk, Laura B; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Smith, K.; Kirshner, Robert P.; Riess, A. G.; Smartt, S. J.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Tonry, J. L.; Wood-Vasey, W. M.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Grav, T.; Heasley, J. N.; Kaiser, N.; Kudritzki, R.-P.; Magnier, E. A.; Morgan, J. S.; Price, P. A. (Nature Publishing Group, 2012)
      The flare of radiation from the tidal disruption and accretion of a star can be used as a marker for supermassive black holes that otherwise lie dormant and undetected in the centres of distant galaxies1. Previous candidate ...

    • WISE J233237.05–505643.5: A Double-peaked, Broad-lined Active Galactic Nucleus with a Spiral-shaped Radio Morphology. 

      Tsai, Chao-Wei; Jarrett, T. H.; Stern, Daniel; Emonts, Bjorn; Barrows, R. Scott; Assef, Roberto J.; Norris, Ray P.; Eisenhardt, Peter R. M.; Lonsdale, Carol; Blain, Andrew W.; Benford, Dominic J.; Wu, Jingwen; Stalder, Brian A; Stubbs, Christopher William; High, F. William; Li, K. L.; Kong, Albert K. H. (American Astronomical Society, 2013)
      We present radio continuum mapping, optical imaging, and spectroscopy of the newly discovered double-peaked, broad-lined active galactic nucleus (AGN) WISE J233237.05–505643.5 at redshift z = 0.3447. This source exhibits ...

    • X-Ray Properties of the First Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect Selected Galaxy Cluster Sample from the South Pole Telescope 

      Andersson, K.; Benson, B. A.; Ade, P. A. R.; Aird, K. A.; Armstrong, B.; Bautz, M.; Bleem, L. E.; Brodwin, M.; Carlstrom, J. E.; Chang, C. L.; Crawford, T. M.; Crites, A. T.; de Haan, T.; Desai, S.; Dobbs, M. A.; Dudley, J. P.; Foley, R. J.; Forman, William R.; Garmire, G.; George, E. M.; Gladders, M. D.; Halverson, N. W.; High, F. W.; Holder, G. P.; Holzapfel, W. L.; Hrubes, J. D.; Forman, Christine Jones; Joy, M.; Keisler, R.; Knox, L.; Lee, A. T.; Leitch, E. M.; Lueker, M.; Marrone, D. P.; McMahon, J. J.; Mehl, J.; Meyer, S. S.; Mohr, J. J.; Montroy, T. E.; Murray, Stephen S.; Padin, S.; Plagge, T.; Pryke, C.; Reichardt, C. L.; Rest, Armin Wolfgang; Ruel, Jonathan; Ruhl, J. E.; Schaffer, K. K.; Shaw, L.; Shirokoff, E.; Song, J.; Spieler, H. G.; Stalder, Brian A; Staniszewski, Z.; Stark, Antony A.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Vanderlinde, K.; Vieira, J. D.; Vikhlinin, Alexey A.; Williamson, R.; Yang, Y.; Zahn, O.; Zenteno, A. (IOP Publishing, 2011)
      We present results of X-ray observations of a sample of 15 clusters selected via their imprint on the cosmic microwave background from the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. These clusters are a subset of the first ...