Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

Journal article Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Dec 2009

Exploring the Optical Transient Sky with the Palomar Transient Factory

Arne Rau, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Nicholas M. Law … Joshua S. Bloom … +20 moreShow fewer
Arne Rau, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Nicholas M. Law, Joshua S. Bloom, David Ciardi, George S. Djorgovski, Derek B. Fox, Avishay Gal-Yam, Carl C. Grillmair, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Peter E. Nugent, Eran O. Ofek, Robert M. Quimby, William T. Reach, Michael Shara, Lars Bildsten, S. Bradley Cenko, Andrew J. Drake, Alexei V. Filippenko, David J. Helfand, George Helou, D. Andrew Howell, Dovi Poznanski, Mark Sullivan
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Journal article Astrophysical Journal Supp. Dec 2009

Low-resolution Spectroscopy of Gamma-ray Burst Optical Afterglows: Biases in the Swift Sample and Characterization of the Absorbers

J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Jakobsson, J. X. Prochaska … J. S. Bloom … +38 moreShow fewer
J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Jakobsson, J. X. Prochaska, D. Malesani, C. Ledoux, A. de Ugarte Postigo, M. Nardini, P. M. Vreeswijk, K. Wiersema, J. Hjorth, J. Sollerman, H. -W. Chen, C. C. Thöne, G. Björnsson, J. S. Bloom, A. J. Castro-Tirado, L. Christensen, A. De Cia, A. S. Fruchter, J. Gorosabel, J. F. Graham, A. O. Jaunsen, B. L. Jensen, D. A. Kann, C. Kouveliotou, A. J. Levan, J. Maund, N. Masetti, B. Milvang-Jensen, E. Palazzi, D. A. Perley, E. Pian, E. Rol, P. Schady, R. L. C. Starling, N. R. Tanvir, D. J. Watson, D. Xu, T. Augusteijn, F. Grundahl, J. Telting, P. -O. Quirion
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Journal article arXiv e-prints Dec 2009

LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

LSST Science Collaboration, Paul A. Abell, Julius Allison … Joshua S. Bloom … +244 moreShow fewer
LSST Science Collaboration, Paul A. Abell, Julius Allison, Scott F. Anderson, John R. Andrew, J. Roger P. Angel, Lee Armus, David Arnett, S. J. Asztalos, Tim S. Axelrod, Stephen Bailey, D. R. Ballantyne, Justin R. 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, Pat Boeshaar, Kirk D. Borne, Marusa Bradac, W. N. Brandt, Carrie R. Bridge, Michael E. Brown, Robert J. Brunner, James S. Bullock, Adam J. Burgasser, James H. Burge, David L. Burke, Phillip A. Cargile, Srinivasan Chand rasekharan, George Chartas, Steven R. Chesley, You-Hua Chu, David Cinabro, Mark W. Claire, Charles F. Claver, Douglas Clowe, A. J. Connolly, Kem H. Cook, Jeff Cooke, Asantha Cooray, Kevin R. Covey, Christopher S. Culliton, Roelof 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, Gregory Dubois-Felsmann, Josef Durech, Ardis Eliasdottir, Michael Eracleous, Laurent Eyer, Emilio E. Falco, Xiaohui Fan, Christopher D. Fassnacht, Harry C. Ferguson, Yanga R. Fernandez, Brian D. Fields, Douglas Finkbeiner, Eduardo E. Figueroa, Derek B. Fox, Harold Francke, James S. Frank, Josh Frieman, Sebastien Fromenteau, Muhammad Furqan, Gaspar Galaz, A. Gal-Yam, Peter Garnavich, Eric Gawiser, John Geary, Perry Gee, Robert R. Gibson, Kirk Gilmore, Emily A. Grace, Richard F. Green, William J. Gressler, Carl J. Grillmair, Salman Habib, J. S. Haggerty, Mario Hamuy, Alan W. Harris, Suzanne L. Hawley, Alan F. Heavens, Leslie Hebb, Todd J. Henry, Edward Hileman, Eric J. Hilton, Keri Hoadley, J. B. Holberg, Matt J. Holman, Steve B. Howell, Leopoldo Infante, Zeljko Ivezic, Suzanne H. Jacoby, Bhuvnesh Jain, R, Jedicke, M. James Jee, J. Garrett Jernigan, Saurabh W. Jha, Kathryn V. Johnston, R. Lynne Jones, Mario Juric, Mikko Kaasalainen, Styliani, Kafka, Steven M. Kahn, Nathan A. Kaib, Jason Kalirai, Jeff Kantor, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Charles R. Keeton, Richard Kessler, Zoran Knezevic, Adam Kowalski, Victor L. Krabbendam, K. Simon Krughoff, Shrinivas Kulkarni, Stephen Kuhlman, Mark Lacy, Sebastien Lepine, Ming Liang, Amy Lien, Paulina Lira, Knox S. Long, Suzanne Lorenz, Jennifer M. Lotz, R. H. Lupton, Julie Lutz, Lucas M. Macri, Ashish A. Mahabal, Rachel Mandelbaum, Phil Marshall, Morgan May, Peregrine M. McGehee, Brian T. Meadows, Alan Meert, Andrea Milani, Christopher J. Miller, Michelle Miller, David Mills, Dante Minniti, David 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 Oluseyi, Nelson D. Padilla, Alex Parker, Joshua Pepper, John R. Peterson, Catherine Petry, Philip A. Pinto, James L. Pizagno, Bogdan Popescu, Andrej Prsa, Veljko Radcka, M. Jordan Raddick, Andrew Rasmussen, Arne Rau, Jeonghee Rho, James E. Rhoads, Gordon T. Richards, Stephen T. Ridgway, Brant E. Robertson, Rok Roskar, Abhijit Saha, Ata Sarajedini, Evan Scannapieco, Terry Schalk, Rafe Schindler, Samuel Schmidt, Sarah 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, Adam Stanford, Keivan G. Stassun, Jay Strader, Michael A. Strauss, Christopher W. Stubbs, Donald W. Sweeney, Alex Szalay, Paula Szkody, Masahiro Takada, Paul Thorman, David E. Trilling, Virginia Trimble, Anthony Tyson, Richard Van Berg, Daniel Vand en Berk, Jake VanderPlas, Licia Verde, Bojan Vrsnak, Lucianne M. Walkowicz, Benjamin D. Wand elt, 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, Przemek Wozniak, Patrick Young, Andrew Zentner, Hu Zhan
Journal article Astronomical Journal Dec 2009

The Host Galaxies of Swift Dark Gamma-ray Bursts: Observational Constraints on Highly Obscured and Very High Redshift GRBs

D. A. Perley, S. B. Cenko, J. S. Bloom … +13 moreShow fewer
D. A. Perley, S. B. Cenko, J. S. Bloom, H. -W. Chen, N. R. Butler, D. Kocevski, J. X. Prochaska, M. Brodwin, K. Glazebrook, M. M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, S. Lopez, E. O. Ofek, M. Pettini, A. M. Soderberg, D. Starr
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Journal article Nature Oct 2009

A γ-ray burst at a redshift of zåisebox-0.5ex 8.2

N. R. Tanvir, D. B. Fox, A. J. Levan … J. S. Bloom … +59 moreShow fewer
N. R. Tanvir, D. B. Fox, A. J. Levan, E. Berger, K. Wiersema, J. P. U. Fynbo, A. Cucchiara, T. Krühler, N. Gehrels, J. S. Bloom, J. Greiner, P. A. Evans, E. Rol, F. Olivares, J. Hjorth, P. Jakobsson, J. Farihi, R. Willingale, R. L. C. Starling, S. B. Cenko, D. Perley, J. R. Maund, J. Duke, R. A. M. J. Wijers, A. J. Adamson, A. Allan, M. N. Bremer, D. N. Burrows, A. J. Castro-Tirado, B. Cavanagh, A. de Ugarte Postigo, M. A. Dopita, T. A. Fatkhullin, A. S. Fruchter, R. J. Foley, J. Gorosabel, J. Kennea, T. Kerr, S. Klose, H. A. Krimm, V. N. Komarova, S. R. Kulkarni, A. S. Moskvitin, C. G. Mundell, T. Naylor, K. Page, B. E. Penprase, M. Perri, P. Podsiadlowski, K. Roth, R. E. Rutledge, T. Sakamoto, P. Schady, B. P. Schmidt, A. M. Soderberg, J. Sollerman, A. W. Stephens, G. Stratta, T. N. Ukwatta, D. Watson, E. Westra, T. Wold, C. Wolf
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Journal article Astrophysical Journal Letters Aug 2009

The Discovery of Vibrationally Excited H$_2$ in the Molecular Cloud Near GRB 080607

Y. Sheffer, J. X. Prochaska, B. T. Draine, D. A. Perley, J. S. Bloom
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Journal article arXiv e-prints May 2009

The Synoptic All-Sky Infrared (SASIR) Survey

Joshua S. Bloom, J. Xavier Prochaska, William Lee … +42 moreShow fewer
Joshua S. Bloom, J. Xavier Prochaska, William Lee, J. Jesús González, Enrico Ramı́rez-Ruiz, Michael Bolte, José Franco, José Guichard, Alberto Carramiñana, Peter Strittmatter, Vladimir Avila-Reese, Rebecca Bernstein, Bruce Bigelow, Mark Brodwin, Adam Burgasser, Nat Butler, Miguel Chávez, Bethany Cobb, Kem Cook, Irene Cruz-González, José Antonio de Diego, Alejandro Farah, Leonid Georgiev, Julien Girard, Hector Hernández-Toledo, Elena Jiménez-Bailón, Yair Krongold, Divakara Mayya, Juan Meza, Takamitsu Miyaji, Raúl Mújica, Peter Nugent, Alicia Porras, Dovi Poznanski, Alejandro Raga, Michael Richer, Lino Rodríguez, Daniel Rosa, Adam Stanford, Andrew Szentgyorgyi, Guillermo Tenorio-Tagle, Rollin Thomas, Octavio Valenzuela, Alan M. Watson, Peter Wehinger
Journal article arXiv e-prints Feb 2009

Astro2010 Decadal Survey Whitepaper: Coordinated Science in the Gravitational and Electromagnetic Skies

Joshua S. Bloom, Daniel E. Holz, Scott A. Hughes … +37 moreShow fewer
Joshua S. Bloom, Daniel E. Holz, Scott A. Hughes, Kristen Menou, Allan Adams, Scott F. Anderson, Andy Becker, Geoffrey C. Bower, Niel Brandt, Bethany Cobb, Kem Cook, Alessandra Corsi, Stefano Covino, Derek Fox, Andrew Fruchter, Chris Fryer, Jonathan Grindlay, Dieter Hartmann, Zoltan Haiman, Bence Kocsis, Lynne Jones, Abraham Loeb, Szabolcs Marka, Brian Metzger, Ehud Nakar, Samaya Nissanke, Daniel A. Perley, Tsvi Piran, Dovi Poznanski, Tom Prince, Jeremy Schnittman, Alicia Soderberg, Michael Strauss, Peter S. Shawhan, David H. Shoemaker, Jonathan Sievers, Christopher Stubbs, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Pietro Ubertini, Przemyslaw Wozniak
Journal article Astrophysical Journal Letters Jan 2009

The First Positive Detection of Molecular Gas in a GRB Host Galaxy

J. X. Prochaska, Y. Sheffer, D. A. Perley … J. S. Bloom … +8 moreShow fewer
J. X. Prochaska, Y. Sheffer, D. A. Perley, J. S. Bloom, L. A. Lopez, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, H. -W. Chen, A. V. Filippenko, M. Ganeshalingam, W. Li, A. A. Miller, D. Starr
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