Weidong Li

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Journal article Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society May 2014

Evidence for dust destruction from the early-time colour change of GRB 120119A

Adam N. Morgan, Daniel A. Perley, S. Bradley Cenko … Joshua S. Bloom … +15 moreShow fewer
Adam N. Morgan, Daniel A. Perley, S. Bradley Cenko, Joshua S. Bloom, Antonino Cucchiara, Joseph W. Richards, Alexei V. Filippenko, Joshua B. Haislip, Aaron LaCluyze, Alessandra Corsi, Andrea Melandri, Bethany E. Cobb, Andreja Gomboc, Assaf Horesh, Berian James, Weidong Li, Carole G. Mundell, Daniel E. Reichart, Iain Steele
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Journal article Astrophysical Journal Supp. Jul 2013

Type Ia Supernovae Strongly Interacting with Their Circumstellar Medium

Jeffrey M. Silverman, Peter E. Nugent, Avishay Gal-Yam … Joshua S. Bloom … +30 moreShow fewer
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Peter E. Nugent, Avishay Gal-Yam, Mark Sullivan, D. Andrew Howell, Alexei V. Filippenko, Iair Arcavi, Sagi Ben-Ami, Joshua S. Bloom, S. Bradley Cenko, Yi Cao, Ryan Chornock, Kelsey I. Clubb, Alison L. Coil, Ryan J. Foley, Melissa L. Graham, Christopher V. Griffith, Assaf Horesh, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Douglas C. Leonard, Weidong Li, Thomas Matheson, Adam A. Miller, Maryam Modjaz, Eran O. Ofek, Yen-Chen Pan, Daniel A. Perley, Dovi Poznanski, Robert M. Quimby, Thea N. Steele, Assaf Sternberg, Dong Xu, Ofer Yaron
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Journal article Astrophysical Journal Letters Dec 2012

Discovery and Early Multi-wavelength Measurements of the Energetic Type Ic Supernova PTF12gzk: A Massive-star Explosion in a Dwarf Host Galaxy

Sagi Ben-Ami, Avishay Gal-Yam, Alexei V. Filippenko … Joshua S. Bloom … +45 moreShow fewer
Sagi Ben-Ami, Avishay Gal-Yam, Alexei V. Filippenko, Paolo A. Mazzali, Maryam Modjaz, Ofer Yaron, Iair Arcavi, S. Bradley Cenko, Assaf Horesh, D. Andrew Howell, Melissa L. Graham, J. Chuck Horst, Myunshin Im, Yiseul Jeon, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Douglas C. Leonard, Daniel Perley, Elena Pian, David J. Sand, Mark Sullivan, Juliette C. Becker, David Bersier, Joshua S. Bloom, Michael Bottom, Peter J. Brown, Kelsey I. Clubb, Ben Dilday, Richard C. Dixon, Aryeh L. Fortinsky, Derek B. Fox, Luis A. Gonzalez, Avet Harutyunyan, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Weidong Li, Matthew A. Malkan, Ilan Manulis, Thomas Matheson, Nicholas A. Moskovitz, Philip S. Muirhead, Peter E. Nugent, Eran O. Ofek, Robert M. Quimby, Joseph W. Richards, Nathaniel R. Ross, Kinchen J. Searcy, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Nathan Smith, Andrew Vanderburg, Emma S. Walker
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Journal article Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Sep 2012

Berkeley Supernova Ia Program - I. Observations, data reduction and spectroscopic sample of 582 low-redshift Type Ia supernovae

Jeffrey M. Silverman, Ryan J. Foley, Alexei V. Filippenko … Joshua S. Bloom … +36 moreShow fewer
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Ryan J. Foley, Alexei V. Filippenko, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Aaron J. Barth, Ryan Chornock, Christopher V. Griffith, Jason J. Kong, Nicholas Lee, Douglas C. Leonard, Thomas Matheson, Emily G. Miller, Thea N. Steele, Brian J. Barris, Joshua S. Bloom, Bethany E. Cobb, Alison L. Coil, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Elinor L. Gates, Luis C. Ho, Saurabh W. Jha, Michael T. Kandrashoff, Weidong Li, Kaisey S. Mandel, Maryam Modjaz, Matthew R. Moore, Robin E. Mostardi, Marina S. Papenkova, Sung Park, Daniel A. Perley, Dovi Poznanski, Cassie A. Reuter, James Scala, Franklin J. D. Serduke, Joseph C. Shields, Brand on J. Swift, John L. Tonry, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Xiaofeng Wang, Diane S. Wong
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Journal article Astrophysical Journal Aug 2012

Calcium-rich Gap Transients in the Remote Outskirts of Galaxies

Mansi M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, Avishay Gal-Yam … Joshua S. Bloom … +24 moreShow fewer
Mansi M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, Avishay Gal-Yam, Peter E. Nugent, Mark Sullivan, Lars Bildsten, Ofer Yaron, Hagai B. Perets, Iair Arcavi, Sagi Ben-Ami, Varun B. Bhalerao, Joshua S. Bloom, S. Bradley Cenko, Alexei V. Filippenko, Dale A. Frail, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Assaf Horesh, D. Andrew Howell, Nicholas M. Law, Douglas C. Leonard, Weidong Li, Eran O. Ofek, David Polishook, Dovi Poznanski, Robert M. Quimby, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Assaf Sternberg, Dong Xu
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Journal article Nature Dec 2011

Exclusion of a luminous red giant as a companion star to the progenitor of supernova SN 2011fe

Weidong Li, Joshua S. Bloom, Philipp Podsiadlowski … +26 moreShow fewer
Weidong Li, Joshua S. Bloom, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Adam A. Miller, S. Bradley Cenko, Saurabh W. Jha, Mark Sullivan, D. Andrew Howell, Peter E. Nugent, Nathaniel R. Butler, Eran O. Ofek, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Joseph W. Richards, Alan Stockton, Hsin-Yi Shih, Lars Bildsten, Michael M. Shara, Joanne Bibby, Alexei V. Filippenko, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Jeffrey M. Silverman, S. R. Kulkarni, Nicholas M. Law, Dovi Poznanski, Robert M. Quimby, Curtis McCully, Brandon Patel, Kate Maguire, Ken J. Shen
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Journal article Astrophysical Journal Letters Dec 2011

SN 2011dh: Discovery of a Type IIb Supernova from a Compact Progenitor in the Nearby Galaxy M51

Iair Arcavi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Ofer Yaron … Joshua S. Bloom … +44 moreShow fewer
Iair Arcavi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Ofer Yaron, Assaf Sternberg, Itay Rabinak, Eli Waxman, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Robert M. Quimby, Eran O. Ofek, Assaf Horesh, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jeffrey M. Silverman, S. Bradley Cenko, Weidong Li, Joshua S. Bloom, Mark Sullivan, Peter E. Nugent, Dovi Poznanski, Evgeny Gorbikov, Benjamin J. Fulton, D. Andrew Howell, David Bersier, Amedee Riou, Stephane Lamotte-Bailey, Thomas Griga, Judith G. Cohen, Stephan Hachinger, David Polishook, Dong Xu, Sagi Ben-Ami, Ilan Manulis, Emma S. Walker, Kate Maguire, Yen-Chen Pan, Thomas Matheson, Paolo A. Mazzali, Elena Pian, Derek B. Fox, Neil Gehrels, Nicholas Law, Philip James, Jonathan M. Marchant, Robert J. Smith, Chris J. Mottram, Robert M. Barnsley, Michael T. Kandrashoff, Kelsey I. Clubb
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Journal article Astrophysical Journal Aug 2011

Real-time Detection and Rapid Multiwavelength Follow-up Observations of a Highly Subluminous Type II-P Supernova from the Palomar Transient Factory Survey

Avishay Gal-Yam, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Iair Arcavi … Joshua S. Bloom … +28 moreShow fewer
Avishay Gal-Yam, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Iair Arcavi, Yoav Green, Ofer Yaron, Sagi Ben-Ami, Dong Xu, Assaf Sternberg, Robert M. Quimby, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Eran O. Ofek, Richard Walters, Peter E. Nugent, Dovi Poznanski, Joshua S. Bloom, S. Bradley Cenko, Alexei V. Filippenko, Weidong Li, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Emma S. Walker, Mark Sullivan, K. Maguire, D. Andrew Howell, Paolo A. Mazzali, Dale A. Frail, David Bersier, Phil A. James, C. W. Akerlof, Fang Yuan, Nicholas Law, Derek B. Fox, Neil Gehrels
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Journal article Astrophysical Journal Apr 2011

PTF 10fqs: A Luminous Red Nova in the Spiral Galaxy Messier 99

Mansi M. Kasliwal, Shri R. Kulkarni, Iair Arcavi … Joshua S. Bloom … +38 moreShow fewer
Mansi M. Kasliwal, Shri R. Kulkarni, Iair Arcavi, Robert M. Quimby, Eran O. Ofek, Peter Nugent, Janet Jacobsen, Avishay Gal-Yam, Yoav Green, Ofer Yaron, Derek B. Fox, Jacob L. Howell, S. Bradley Cenko, Io Kleiser, Joshua S. Bloom, Adam Miller, Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko, Dan Starr, Dovi Poznanski, Nicholas M. Law, George Helou, Dale A. Frail, James D. Neill, Karl Forster, D. Christopher Martin, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar, Neil Gehrels, Jamie Kennea, Mark Sullivan, Lars Bildsten, Richard Dekany, Gustavo Rahmer, David Hale, Roger Smith, Jeff Zolkower, Viswa Velur, Richard Walters, John Henning, Kahnh Bui, Dan McKenna, Cullen Blake
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Journal article Astrophysical Journal Letters May 2010

The Massive Progenitor of the Type II-linear Supernova 2009kr

Nancy Elias-Rosa, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Weidong Li … Joshua S. Bloom … +12 moreShow fewer
Nancy Elias-Rosa, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Weidong Li, Adam A. Miller, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Andrew F. Boden, Mansi M. Kasliwal, József Vinkó, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Alexei V. Filippenko, Thea N. Steele, Joshua S. Bloom, Christopher V. Griffith, Io K. W. Kleiser, Ryan J. Foley
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Journal article Astronomical Journal Apr 2010

Discovery of Precursor Luminous Blue Variable Outbursts in Two Recent Optical Transients: The Fitfully Variable Missing Links UGC 2773-OT and SN 2009ip

Nathan Smith, Adam Miller, Weidong Li … Joshua S. Bloom … +10 moreShow fewer
Nathan Smith, Adam Miller, Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Andrew W. Howard, Peter Nugent, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Joshua S. Bloom, Andrea M. Ghez, Jessica Lu, Sylvana Yelda, Rebecca A. Bernstein, Janet E. Colucci
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Journal article Science Jan 2010

An Unusually Fast-Evolving Supernova

Dovi Poznanski, Ryan Chornock, Peter E. Nugent … Joshua S. Bloom … +5 moreShow fewer
Dovi Poznanski, Ryan Chornock, Peter E. Nugent, Joshua S. Bloom, Alexei V. Filippenko, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Douglas C. Leonard, Weidong Li, Rollin C. Thomas
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Journal article Astrophysical Journal Apr 2009

Improved Standardization of Type II-P Supernovae: Application to an Expanded Sample

Dovi Poznanski, Nathaniel Butler, Alexei V. Filippenko … Joshua S. Bloom … +15 moreShow fewer
Dovi Poznanski, Nathaniel Butler, Alexei V. Filippenko, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Weidong Li, Joshua S. Bloom, Ryan Chornock, Ryan J. Foley, Peter E. Nugent, Jeffrey M. Silverman, S. Bradley Cenko, Elinor L. Gates, Douglas C. Leonard, Adam A. Miller, Maryam Modjaz, Frank J. D. Serduke, Nathan Smith, Brandon J. Swift, Diane S. Wong
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Journal article Astrophysical Journal Oct 2008

Late-Time Observations of SN 2006gy: Still Going Strong

Nathan Smith, Ryan J. Foley, Joshua S. Bloom … +10 moreShow fewer
Nathan Smith, Ryan J. Foley, Joshua S. Bloom, Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko, Raphaël Gavazzi, Andrea Ghez, Quinn Konopacky, Matthew A. Malkan, Philip J. Marshall, David Pooley, Tommaso Treu, Jong-Hak Woo
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Journal article Astrophysical Journal Sep 2007

SN 2006gy: Discovery of the Most Luminous Supernova Ever Recorded, Powered by the Death of an Extremely Massive Star like η Carinae

Nathan Smith, Weidong Li, Ryan J. Foley … Joshua S. Bloom … +7 moreShow fewer
Nathan Smith, Weidong Li, Ryan J. Foley, J. Craig Wheeler, David Pooley, Ryan Chornock, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Robert Quimby, Joshua S. Bloom, Charles Hansen
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Journal article Astrophysical Journal Apr 2006

Identification of the Red Supergiant Progenitor of Supernova 2005cs: Do the Progenitors of Type II-P Supernovae Have Low Mass?

Weidong Li, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Saurabh Jha, Joshua S. Bloom, Adam G. Riess, Mario Livio
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Journal article Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Jan 2006

The Calibration of the Swift UVOT Optical Observations: A Recipe for Photometry

Weidong Li, Saurabh Jha, Alexei V. Filippenko, Joshua S. Bloom, David Pooley, Ryan J. Foley, Daniel A. Perley
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