Publications (117)
A Study of the Diverse T Dwarf Population Revealed by WISE
Gregory N. Mace, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Michael C. Cushing +23
Active Learning to Overcome Sample Selection Bias: Application to Photometric Variable Star Classification
Joseph W. Richards, Dan L. Starr, Henrik Brink +6
Generalized Tests for Selection Effects in GRB High-Energy Correlations
Nathaniel R. Butler, Daniel Kocevski, Joshua S. Bloom
PTF11eon/SN2011dh: Discovery of a Type IIb Supernova From a Compact Progenitor in the Nearby Galaxy M51
Iair Arcavi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Ofer Yaron +40
A New Low-Mass Eclipsing Binary from SDSS-II
Cullen H. Blake, Guillermo Torres, Joshua S. Bloom +1
Testing for Extragalactic Correlations of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Joshua S. Bloom, Nial R. Tanvir, Ralph A. M. J. Wijers
An Early & Comprehensive Millimeter and Centimeter Wave and X-ray Study of Supernova 2011dh: A Non-Equipartition Blastwave Expanding into A Massive Stellar Wind
Assaf Horesh, Christopher Stockdale, Derek B. Fox +24
Dissecting the Circumstellar Environment of Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors
Jason X. Prochaska, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Joshua S. Bloom
On Machine-Learned Classification of Variable Stars with Sparse and Noisy Time-Series Data
Joseph W. Richards, Dan L. Starr, Nathaniel R. Butler +6
Late-time observations of SN2006gy: Still Going Strong
Nathan Smith, Ryan J. Foley, Joshua S. Bloom +9
No supernovae associated with two long-duration gamma ray bursts
Johan P. U. Fynbo, Darach Watson, Christina C. Thoene +28
Rapidly Decaying Supernova 2010X: A Candidate ".Ia" Explosion
Mansi M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, Avishay Gal-Yam +33
A Bayesian Approach to Calibrating Period-Luminosity Relations of RR Lyrae Stars in the Mid-Infrared
Christopher R. Klein, Joseph W. Richards, Nathaniel R. Butler +1
Optimizing Automated Classification of Periodic Variable Stars in New Synoptic Surveys
James P. Long, Noureddine El Karoui, John A. Rice +2
Astro2010 Decadal Survey Whitepaper: Coordinated Science in the Gravitational and Electromagnetic Skies
Joshua S. Bloom, Daniel E. Holz, Scott A. Hughes +37
Super Star Cluster NGC1705-1: A Local Analogue to the Birthsite of Long-duration Gamma-ray Bursts
Hsiao-Wen Chen, J. X. Prochaska, Joshua S. Bloom
Improved Standardization of Type II-P Supernovae: Application to an Expanded Sample
Dovi Poznanski, Nathaniel Butler, Alexei V. Filippenko +16
Three New Eclipsing White-dwarf - M-dwarf Binaries Discovered in a Search for Transiting Planets Around M-dwarfs
Nicholas M. Law, Adam L. Kraus, Rachel Street +24
Millions of Multiples: Detecting and Characterizing Close-Separation Binary Systems in Synoptic Sky Surveys
Emil Terziev, Nicholas M. Law, Iair Arcavi +15
The Gamma-Ray Burst - Supernova Connection
Jens Hjorth, Joshua S. Bloom
iPTF14yb: The First Discovery of a GRB Afterglow Independent of a High-Energy Trigger
S. Bradley Cenko, Alex L. Urban, Daniel A. Perley +34
Calcium-rich gap transients in the remote outskirts of galaxies
Mansi M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, Avishay Gal-Yam +25
SN2010jp (PTF10aaxi): A Jet-Driven Type II Supernova
Nathan Smith, S. Bradley Cenko, Nat Butler +18
Determination of Distance from Time Dilation of Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts
Ed E. Fenimore, Joshua S. Bloom
Type IIb Supernova SN 2011dh: Spectra and Photometry from the Ultraviolet to the Near-Infrared
G. H. "Howie'' Marion, Jozsef Vinko, Robert P. Kirshner +26
CfAIR2: Near Infrared Light Curves of 94 Type Ia Supernovae
Andrew S. Friedman, W. M. Wood-Vasey, G. H. Marion +18
Towards a More Standardized Candle Using GRB Energetics and Spectra
Andrew S. Friedman, Joshua S. Bloom
Nearby M, L, and T Dwarfs Discovered by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
Maggie A. Thompson, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Gregory N. Mace +15
Highly Variable Extinction and Accretion in the Jet-driving Class I Type Young Star PTF 10nvg (V2492 Cyg, IRAS 20496+4354)
Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Adam A. Miller, Kevin R. Covey +8
Keck and ESO-VLT View of the Symmetry of the Ejecta of the XRF/SN 2006aj
Paolo A. Mazzali, Ryan J. Foley, Jinsong Deng +11
The Host Galaxy of GRB 031203: Implications of its low metallicity, low redshift, and starburst nature
Jason X. Prochaska, Joshua S. Bloom, Hsiao-Wen Chen +6
Present and Future Prospects for GRB Standard Candles
Andrew S. Friedman, Joshua S. Bloom
Probing Quiescent Massive Black Holes: Insights from Tidal Disruption Events
Suvi Gezari, Linda Strubbe, Joshua S. Bloom +10
Type Ia Supernovae are Good Standard Candles in the Near Infrared: Evidence from PAIRITEL
W. Michael Wood-Vasey, Andrew S. Friedman, Joshua S. Bloom +11
In Situ Probes of the First Galaxies and Reionization: Gamma-ray Bursts
Matthew McQuinn, Joshua S. Bloom, Jonathan Grindlay +20
Mid-infrared Period-Luminosity Relations of RR Lyrae Stars Derived from the WISE Preliminary Data Release
Christopher R. Klein, Joseph W. Richards, Nathaniel R. Butler +1
The PTF Orion Project: a Possible Planet Transiting a T-Tauri Star
Julian C. van Eyken, David R. Ciardi, Kaspar von Braun +35
The Dynamic X-ray Sky of the Local Universe
Alicia M. Soderberg, Jonathan E. Grindlay, Joshua S. Bloom +35
Supernova 2011fe from an Exploding Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarf Star
Peter E. Nugent, Mark Sullivan, S. Bradley Cenko +36
Constraints on the Progenitor System of the Type Ia Supernova SN 2011fe/PTF11kly
Weidong Li, Joshua S. Bloom, Philipp Podsiadlowski +25
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 +45
Pulse Width Evolution of Late Time X-rays Flares in GRBs: Evidence For Internal Shocks
Daniel Kocevski, Nathaniel Butler, Joshua S. Bloom
Discovery and redshift of an optical afterglow in 71 square degrees: iPTF13bxl and GRB 130702A
Leo P. Singer, S. Bradley Cenko, Mansi M. Kasliwal +20
PTF1 J071912.13+485834.0: An outbursting AM CVn system discovered by a synoptic survey
David Levitan, Benjamin J. Fulton, Paul J. Groot +14
A relativistic jetted outburst from a massive black hole fed by a tidally disrupted star
Joshua S. Bloom, Dimitrios Giannios, Brian D. Metzger +19
Discovery of a Very Bright, Nearby Gravitational Microlensing Event
B. Scott Gaudi, Joseph Patterson, David S. Spiegel +18
Type Ia Supernovae Strongly Interacting with Their Circumstellar Medium
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Peter E. Nugent, Avishay Gal-Yam +31
A Compact Degenerate Primary-Star Progenitor of SN 2011fe
Joshua S. Bloom, Daniel Kasen, Ken J. Shen +10
Probing the ISM Near Star Forming Regions with GRB Afterglow Spectroscopy: Gas, Metals, and Dust
Jason X. Prochaska, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky +1
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 +5
GRB 090426: The Environment of a Rest-Frame 0.35-second Gamma-Ray Burst at Redshift z=2.609
Emily M. Levesque, Joshua S. Bloom, Nathaniel R. Butler +14
The Impact of the Astro2010 Recommendations on Variable Star Science
Lucianne M. Walkowicz, Andrew C. Becker, Scott F. Anderson +13
Evidence for an FU Orionis-like Outburst from a Classical T Tauri Star
Adam A. Miller, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Kevin R. Covey +26
PTF10iya: A short-lived, luminous flare from the nuclear region of a star-forming galaxy
S. Bradley Cenko, Joshua S. Bloom, S. R. Kulkarni +28
Using Machine Learning for Discovery in Synoptic Survey Imaging
Henrik Brink, Joseph W. Richards, Dovi Poznanski +4
Genetics of single-cell protein abundance variation in large yeast populations
Frank W. Albert, Sebastian Treusch, Arthur H. Shockley +2
LSST Science Book, Version 2.0
LSST Science Collaboration, Paul A. Abell, Julius Allison +245
SubmilliJansky Transients in Archival Radio Observations
Geoffrey C. Bower, Destry Saul, Joshua S. Bloom +4
A Mid-infrared Study of RR Lyrae Stars with the WISE All-Sky Data Release
Tatyana Gavrilchenko, Christopher R. Klein, Joshua S. Bloom +1
PTF10fqs: A Luminous Red Nova in the Spiral Galaxy Messier 99
Mansi M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, Iair Arcavi +38
The Highly-Eccentric Detached Eclipsing Binaries in ACVS and MACC
Isaac Shivvers, Joshua S. Bloom, Joseph W. Richards
PTF10ops - a subluminous, normal-width lightcurve Type Ia supernova in the middle of nowhere
Kate Maguire, Mark Sullivan, Rollin C. Thomas +26
Probing the distance and morphology of the Large Magellanic Cloud with RR Lyrae stars
Christopher R. Klein, S. B. Cenko, Adam A. Miller +2
Toward an Understanding of the Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Joshua S. Bloom
Using STIS to find Gamma-Ray Burst Redshifts
Joshua S. Bloom, Steinn Sigurdsson, Ralph A. M. J. Wijers +3
The Swift/BAT Hard X-ray Transient Monitor
Hans A. Krimm, Stephen T. Holland, Robin H. D. Corbet +14
Hubble Space Telescope Studies of Nearby Type Ia Supernovae: The Mean Maximum Light Ultraviolet Spectrum and its Dispersion
Jeff Cooke, Richard S. Ellis, Mark Sullivan +11
Exploring the Optical Transient Sky with the Palomar Transient Factory
Arne Rau, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Nicholas M. Law +21
Missing Molecular Hydrogen and the Physical Conditions of GRB Host Galaxies
Jason Tumlinson, Jason X. Prochaska, Hsiao-Wen Chen +2
The Calibration of the Swift/UVOT Optical Observations: A Recipe for Photometry
Weidong Li, Saurabh Jha, Alexei V. Filippenko +4
PTF10nvg: An Outbursting Class I Protostar in the Pelican/North American Nebula
Kevin R. Covey, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Adam A. Miller +28
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 +37
Discovery of Precursor LBV Outbursts in Two Recent Optical Transients: The Fitfully Variable Missing Links UGC 2773-OT and SN 2009ip
Nathan Smith, Adam A. Miller, Weidong Li +11
An Unusually Fast-Evolving Supernova
Dovi Poznanski, Ryan Chornock, Peter E. Nugent +6
Optimal Time-Series Selection of Quasars
Nathaniel R. Butler, Joshua S. Bloom
An Empirical Relation between Sodium Absorption and Dust Extinction
Dovi Poznanski, J. Xavier Prochaska, Joshua S. Bloom
Classical Novae in Andromeda: Light Curves from the Palomar Transient Factory and GALEX
Yi Cao, Mansi M. Kasliwal, James D. Neill +10
Keck Observations of 160 Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxies
Daniel A. Perley, Joshua S. Bloom, Jason X. Prochaska
Swift J2058.4+0516: Discovery of a Possible Second Relativistic Tidal Disruption Flare?
S. Bradley Cenko, Hans A. Krimm, Assaf Horesh +18
Multicolor Infrared Observations of SN 2006aj, the Supernova Associated with XRF 060218 - Paper I
Daniel Kocevski, Maryam Modjaz, Joshua S. Bloom +8
Temporal Variation in Excited Fe^+ Near a GRB Afterglow
Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Jason X. Prochaska +2
Mid-Infrared Period--Luminosity Relations of RR Lyrae Stars Derived from the AllWISE Data Release
Christopher R. Klein, Joseph W. Richards, Nathaniel R. Butler +1
The Corrected Log N-Log Fluence Distribution of Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts
Joshua S. Bloom, Edward E. Fenimore, Jean in 't Zand
The Synoptic All-Sky Infrared (SASIR) Survey
Joshua S. Bloom, J. Xavier Prochaska, William Lee +42
SN 2006gy: Discovery of the most luminous supernova ever recorded, powered by the death of an extremely massive star like Eta Carinae
Nathan Smith, Weidong Li, Ryan J. Foley +8
On the Nature of Velocity Fields in High z Galaxies
Jason X. Prochaska, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Arthur M. Wolfe +2
Resolving The ISM Surrounding GRBs with Afterglow Spectroscopy
Jason X. Prochaska, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky +1
The prompt energy release of gamma-ray bursts using a cosmological k-correction
Joshua S. Bloom, Dale A. Frail, Re'em Sari
The Palomar Transient Factory Orion Project: Eclipsing Binaries and Young Stellar Objects
Julian C. van Eyken, David R. Ciardi, Luisa M. Rebull +25
Limits on Radioactive-Powered Emission Associated With a Short-Hard GRB 070724A in a Star-Forming Galaxy
Daniel Kocevski, Christina C Thone, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz +10
Echelle Spectroscopy of a GRB Afterglow at z=3.969: A New Probe of the Interstellar and Intergalactic Media in the Young Universe
Hsiao-Wen Chen, Jason X. Prochaska, Joshua S. Bloom +1
SN 2000cx and SN 2013bh: Extremely Rare, Nearly Twin Type Ia Supernovae
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Jozsef Vinko, Mansi M. Kasliwal +17
GJ 3236: a new bright, very low-mass eclipsing binary system discovered by the MEarth observatory
Jonathan Irwin, David Charbonneau, Zachory K. Berta +14
Slow-Speed Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory: Two Channels
Christopher J. White, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Peter E. Nugent +20
Gamma-ray Bursts, Classified Physically
Joshua S. Bloom, Nathaniel R. Butler, Daniel A. Perley
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 +29
Core-Collapse Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory: Indications for a Different Population in Dwarf Galaxies
Iair Arcavi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Mansi M. Kasliwal +26
On the absence of Wind Signatures in GRB Afterglow Spectra: Constraints on the Wolf-Rayet Winds of GRB Progenitors
Hsiao-Wen Chen, Jason X. Prochaska, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz +3
Discovery of a Cosmological, Relativistic Outburst via its Rapidly Fading Optical Emission
S. Bradley Cenko, S. R. Kulkarni, Assaf Horesh +26
Casting light on the 'anomalous' statistics of Mg II absorbers toward Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows: the incidence of weak systems
Nicolas Tejos, Sebastian Lopez, J. Xavier Prochaska +4