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Published Aug 2015
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, Vol. 1, article id.014003
ArXiv: 1406.0151

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Ricker, George R.
et al. Ricker, George R., Winn, Joshua N., Vanderspek, Roland, Latham, David W., Bakos, Gáspár. �., Bean, Jacob L., Berta-Thompson, Zachory K., Brown, Timothy M., Buchhave, Lars, Butler, Nathaniel R., Butler, R. Paul, Chaplin, William J., Charbonneau, David, Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen, Clampin, Mark, Deming, Drake, Doty, John, De Lee, Nathan, Dressing, Courtney, Dunham, E. W., Endl, Michael, Fressin, Francois, Ge, Jian, Henning, Thomas, Holman, Matthew J., Howard, Andrew W., Ida, Shigeru, Jenkins, Jon, Jernigan, Garrett, Johnson, John A., Kaltenegger, Lisa, Kawai, Nobuyuki, Kjeldsen, Hans, Laughlin, Gregory, Levine, Alan M., Lin, Douglas, Lissauer, Jack J., MacQueen, Phillip, Marcy, Geoffrey, McCullough, P. R., Morton, Timothy D., Narita, Norio, Paegert, Martin, Palle, Enric, Pepe, Francesco, Pepper, Joshua, Quirrenbach, Andreas, Rinehart, S. A., Sasselov, Dimitar, Sato, Bun'ei, Seager, Sara, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Stassun, Keivan G., Sullivan, Peter, Szentgyorgyi, Andrew, Torres, Guillermo, Udry, Stephane, Villasenor, Joel,

In Press
ArXiv: 1508.03175

Metrics for Optimization of Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Observations of Stellar Variables and Transients
Lund, Michael B.
et al. Lund, Michael B., Siverd, Robert J., Pepper, Joshua A., Stassun, Keivan G.,

Published Aug 2015
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 451, Issue 3, p.3151-3160
ArXiv: 1505.05780

Explosion of a massive, He-rich star at z = 0.16
Elias-Rosa, N.
et al. Elias-Rosa, N., Pastorello, A., Nicholl, M., Valenti, S., Benetti, S., Cappellaro, E., Turatto, M., Altavilla, G., Botticella, M. T., Monard, L. A. G., Riello, M., Zampieri, L.,

Published Aug 2015
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 451, Issue 2, p.2212-2229
ArXiv: 1505.02988

The rise-time of Type II supernovae
González-Gaitán, S.
et al. González-Gaitán, S., Tominaga, N., Molina, J., Galbany, L., Bufano, F., Anderson, J. P., Gutierrez, C., Förster, F., Pignata, G., Bersten, M., Howell, D. A., Sullivan, M., Carlberg, R., de Jaeger, T., Hamuy, M., Baklanov, P. V., Blinnikov, S. I.,

Published Jul 2015
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 150, Issue 1, article id. 32, 11 pp. (2015).
ArXiv: 1505.05805

V409 Tau as Another AA Tau: Photometric Observations of Stellar Occultations by the Circumstellar Disk
Rodriguez, Joseph E.
et al. Rodriguez, Joseph E., Pepper, Joshua, Stassun, Keivan G., Siverd, Robert J., Cargile, Phillip, Weintraub, David A., Beatty, Thomas G., Gaudi, B. Scott, Mamajek, Eric E., Sanchez, N. Nicole,

In Press
ArXiv: 1506.03458

Science with KRAKENS
Mazin, Benjamin A.
et al. Mazin, Benjamin A., Becker, George, France, Kevin, Fraser, Wesley, Howell, D. Andrew, Jones, Tucker, Meeker, Seth, O'Brien, Kieran, Prochaska, Jason X., Siana, Brian, Strader, Matthew, Szypryt, Paul, Tendulkar, Shriharsh P., Treu, Tommaso, Vasisht, Gautam,

In Press
ArXiv: 1505.06738

KELT-8b: A highly inflated transiting hot Jupiter and a new technique for extracting high-precision radial velocities from noisy spectra
Fulton, Benjamin J.
et al. Fulton, Benjamin J., Collins, Karen A., Gaudi, B. Scott, Stassun, Keivan G., Pepper, Joshua, Beatty, Thomas G., Siverd, Robert J., Penev, Kaloyan, Howard, Andrew W., Baranec, Christoph, Corfini, Giorgio, Eastman, Jason D., Gregorio, Joao, Law, Nicholas M., Lund, Michael B., Oberst, Thomas E., Penny, Matthew T., Riddle, Reed, Rodriguez, Joseph E., Stevens, Daniel J., Zambelli, Roberto, Ziegler, Carl, Bieryla, Allyson, D`Ago, Giuseppe, DePoy, Darren L., Jensen, Eric L. N., Kielkopf, John F., Latham, David W., Manner, Mark, Marshall, Jennifer, McLeod, Kim K., Reed, Phillip A.,

In Press
ArXiv: 1505.06211

Illuminating a Dark Lens : A Type Ia Supernova Magnified by the Frontier Fields Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744
Rodney, Steven A.
et al. Rodney, Steven A., Patel, Brandon, Scolnic, Daniel, Foley, Ryan J., Molino, Alberto, Brammer, Gabriel, Jauzac, Mathilde, Bradac, Marusa, Coe, Dan, Broadhurst, Tom, Diego, Jose M., Graur, Or, Hjorth, Jens, Hoag, Austin, Jha, Saurabh W., Johnson, Traci L., Kelly, Patrick, Lam, Daniel, McCully, Curtis, Medezinski, Elinor, Meneghetti, Massimo, Merten, Julian, Richard, Johan, Riess, Adam, Sharon, Keren, Strolger, Louis-Gregory, Treu, Tommaso, Wang, Xin, Williams, Liliya L. R., Zitrin, Adi,

In Press
ArXiv: 1505.06037

MOA-2007-BLG-197: Exploring the brown dwarf desert
Ranc, C.
et al. Ranc, C., Cassan, A., Albrow, M. D., Kubas, D., Bond, I. A., Batista, V., Beaulieu, J.-P., Bennett, D. P., Dominik, M., Dong, Subo, Fouqué, P., Gould, A., Greenhill, J., Jørgensen, U. G., Kains, N., Menzies, J., Sumi, T., Bachelet, E., Coutures, C., Dieters, S., Dominis Prester, D., Donatowicz, J., Gaudi, B. S., Han, C., Hundertmark, M., Horne, K., Kane, S. R., Lee, C.-U., Marquette, J.-B., Park, B.-G., Pollard, K. R., Sahu, K. C., Street, R., Tsapras, Y., Wambsganss, J., Williams, A., Zub, M., Abe, F., Fukui, A., Itow, Y., Masuda, K., Matsubara, Y., Muraki, Y., Ohnishi, K., Rattenbury, N., Saito, To., Sullivan, D. J., Sweatman, W. L., Tristram, P. J., Yock, P. C. M., Yonehara, A.,

Published May 2015
Nature, Volume 521, Issue 7552, pp. 328-331 (2015).
ArXiv: 1505.05158

A strong ultraviolet pulse from a newborn type Ia supernova
Cao, Yi
et al. Cao, Yi, Kulkarni, S. R., Howell, D. Andrew, Gal-Yam, Avishay, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Valenti, Stefano, Johansson, J., Amanullah, R., Goobar, A., Sollerman, J., Taddia, F., Horesh, Assaf, Sagiv, Ilan, Cenko, S. Bradley, Nugent, Peter E., Arcavi, Iair, Surace, Jason, Woźniak, P. R., Moody, Daniela I., Rebbapragada, Umaa D., Bue, Brian D., Gehrels, Neil,

Published May 2015
Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 577, id.A108, 3 pp.
ArXiv: 1504.01832

Difference image analysis: The interplay between the photometric scale factor and systematic photometric errors
Bramich, D. M.
et al. Bramich, D. M., Bachelet, E., Alsubai, K. A., Mislis, D., Parley, N.,

Published May 2015
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 804, Issue 1, article id. 59, 20 pp. (2015).
ArXiv: 1503.03173

Low False Positive Rate of Kepler Candidates Estimated From A Combination Of Spitzer And Follow-Up Observations
Désert, Jean-Michel
et al. Désert, Jean-Michel, Charbonneau, David, Torres, Guillermo, Fressin, François, Ballard, Sarah, Bryson, Stephen T., Knutson, Heather A., Batalha, Natalie M., Borucki, William J., Brown, Timothy M., Deming, Drake, Ford, Eric B., Fortney, Jonathan J., Gilliland, Ronald L., Latham, David W., Seager, Sara,

Published May 2015
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 804, Issue 1, article id. 38, 11 pp. (2015).
ArXiv: 1502.06663

Reanalyses of Anomalous Gravitational Microlensing Events in the OGLE-III Early Warning System Database with Combined Data
Jeong, J.
et al. Jeong, J., Park, H., Han, C., Gould, A., Udalski, A., Szymański, M. K., Pietrzyński, G., Soszyński, I., Poleski, R., Ulaczyk, K., Wyrzykowski, �., OGLE Collaboration, Abe, F., Bennett, D. P., Bond, I. A., Botzler, C. S., Freeman, M., Fukui, A., Fukunaga, D., Itow, Y., Koshimoto, N., Masuda, K., Matsubara, Y., Muraki, Y., Namba, S., Ohnishi, K., Rattenbury, N. J., Saito, To., Sullivan, D. J., Sweatman, W. L., Sumi, T., Suzuki, D., Tristram, P. J., Tsurumi, N., Wada, K., Yamai, N., Yock, P. C. M., Yonehara, A., MOA Collaboration, Albrow, M. D., Batista, V., Beaulieu, J.-P., Caldwell, J. A. R., Cassan, A., Cole, A., Coutures, C., Dieters, S., Dominik, M., Dominis Prester, D., Donatowicz, J., Fouqué, P., Greenhill, J., Hoffman, M., Huber, M., Jørgensen, U. G., Kane, S. R., Kubas, D., Martin, R., Marquette, J.-B., Menzies, J., Pitrou, C., Pollard, K., Sahu, K. C., Vinter, C., Wambsganss, J., Williams, A., PLANET Collaboration, Allen, W., Bolt, G., Choi, J.-Y., Christie, G. W., DePoy, D. L., Drummond, J., Gaudi, B. S., Hwang, K.-H., Jung, Y. K., Lee, C.-U., Mallia, F., Maoz, D., Maury, A., McCormick, J., Monard, L. A. G., Moorhouse, D., Natusch, T., Ofek, E. O., Park, B.-G., Pogge, R. W., Santallo, R., Shin, I.-G., Thornley, G., Yee, J. C., μFUN Collaboration, Bramich, D. M., Burgdorf, M., Horne, K., Hundertmark, M., Kains, N., Snodgrass, C., Steele, I., Street, R., Tsapras, Y., RoboNet Collaboration,

In Press
ArXiv: 1504.02101

Diversity in extinction laws of Type Ia supernovae measured between 0.2 and 2 µm
Amanullah, R.
et al. Amanullah, R., Johansson, J., Goobar, A., Ferretti, R., Papadogiannakis, S., Petrushevska, T., Brown, P. J., Cao, Y., Contreras, C., Dahle, H., Elias-Rosa, N., Fynbo, J. P. U., Gorosabel, J., Guaita, L., Hangard, L., Howell, D. A., Hsiao, E. Y., Kankare, E., Kasliwal, M., Leloudas, G., Lundqvist, P., Mattila, S., Nugent, P., Phillips, M. M., Sandberg, A., Stanishev, V., Sullivan, M., Taddia, F., Östlin, G., Asadi, S., Herrero-Illana, R., Jensen, J. J., Karhunen, K., Lazarevi, S., Varenius, E., Santos, P., Seethapuram Sridhar, S., Wallström, S. H. J., Wiegert, J.,

Published Apr 2015
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 803, Issue 2, article id. L24, 6 pp. (2015).
ArXiv: 1504.00673

iPTF14yb: The First Discovery of a Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow Independent of a High-energy Trigger
Cenko, S. Bradley
et al. Cenko, S. Bradley, Urban, Alex L., Perley, Daniel A., Horesh, Assaf, Corsi, Alessandra, Fox, Derek B., Cao, Yi, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Lien, Amy, Arcavi, Iair, Bloom, Joshua S., Butler, Nat R., Cucchiara, Antonino, de Diego, José A., Filippenko, Alexei V., Gal-Yam, Avishay, Gehrels, Neil, Georgiev, Leonid, Jesús González, J., Graham, John F., Greiner, Jochen, Kann, D. Alexander, Klein, Christopher R., Knust, Fabian, Kulkarni, S. R., Kutyrev, Alexander, Laher, Russ, Lee, William H., Nugent, Peter E., Prochaska, J. Xavier, Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico, Richer, Michael G., Rubin, Adam, Urata, Yuji, Varela, Karla, Watson, Alan M., Wozniak, Przemek R.,

Published Apr 2015
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 448, Issue 3, p.2617-2623
ArXiv: 1503.02246

High-precision multiband time series photometry of exoplanets Qatar-1b and TrES-5b
Mislis, D.
et al. Mislis, D., Mancini, L., Tregloan-Reed, J., Ciceri, S., Southworth, J., D'Ago, G., Bruni, I., Baştürk, Ö., Alsubai, K. A., Bachelet, E., Bramich, D. M., Henning, Th., Hinse, T. C., Iannella, A. L., Parley, N., Schroeder, T.,

In Press
ArXiv: 1503.07170

An Integer Linear Programming Solution to the Telescope Network Scheduling Problem
Lampoudi, Sotiria
et al. Lampoudi, Sotiria, Saunders, Eric, Eastman, Jason,

In Press
ArXiv: 1503.03310

On the diversity of Super-luminous Supernovae: Ejected mass as the dominant factor
Nicholl, M.
et al. Nicholl, M., Smartt, S. J., Jerkstrand, A., Inserra, C., Sim, S. A., Chen, T.-W., Benetti, S., Fraser, M., Gal-Yam, A., Kankare, E., Maguire, K., Smith, K., Sullivan, M., Valenti, S., Young, D. R., Baltay, C., Bauer, F. E., Baumont, S., Bersier, D., Botticella, M.-T., Childress, M., Dennefeld, M., Della Valle, M., Elias-Rosa, N., Feindt, U., Galbany, L., Hadjiyska, E., Le Guillou, L., Leloudas, G., Mazzali, P., McKinnon, R., Polshaw, J., Rabinowitz, D., Rostami, S., Scalzo, R., Schmidt, B. P., Schulze, S., Sollerman, J., Taddia, F., Yuan, F.,

In Press
ArXiv: 1412.0653

Time-Varying Potassium in High-Resolution Spectra of the Type Ia Supernova 2014j
{Graham}, M.~L.
et al. {Graham}, M.~L., {Valenti}, S., {Fulton}, B.~J., {Weiss}, L.~M., {Shen}, K.~J., {Kelly}, P.~L., {Zheng}, W., {Filippenko}, A.~V., {Marcy}, G.~W., {Howell}, D.~A., {Burt}, J., {Rivera}, E.~J.,

In Press
ArXiv: 1411.6009

Multiple Images of a Highly Magnified Supernova Formed by an Early-Type Cluster Galaxy Lens
Patrick L. Kelly
et al. Patrick L. Kelly, Steven A. Rodney, Tommaso Treu, Ryan J. Foley, Gabriel Brammer, Kasper B. Schmidt, Adi Zitrin, Alessandro Sonnenfeld, Louis-Gregory Strolger, Or Graur, Alexei V. Filippenko, Saurabh W. Jha, Adam G. Riess, Marusa Bradac, Benjamin J. Weiner, Daniel Scolnic, Matthew A. Malkan, Anja von der Linden, Michele Trenti, Jens Hjorth, Raphael Gavazzi, Adriano Fontana, Julian Merten, Curtis McCully, Tucker Jones, Marc Postman, Alan Dressler, Brandon Patel, S. Bradley Cenko, Melissa L. Graham, Bradley E. Tucker,

Published Mar 2015
Highlights of Astronomy, Volume 16, pp. 646-646

Las Cumbres Observatory: Building a global telescope network from the ground up
Gomez, E. L.

Published Mar 2015
Highlights of Astronomy, Volume 16, pp. 545-546

IAU Office of Astronomy for Development: Task Force Children and School Education
Russo, Pedro
et al. Russo, Pedro, Gomez, Edward,

In Press
ArXiv: 1411.1064

The Rising Light Curves of Type Ia Supernovae
R. E. Firth
et al. R. E. Firth, M. Sullivan, A. Gal-Yam, D. A. Howell, K. Maguire, P. Nugent, A. L. Piro, C. Baltay, U. Feindt, E. Hadjiyksta, R. McKinnon, E. Ofek, D. Rabinowitz, E. S. Walker,

In Press
ArXiv: 1408.4084

Early-time light curves of Type Ib/c supernovae from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey
F. Taddia
et al. F. Taddia, J. Sollerman, G. Leloudas, M. D. Stritzinger, S. Valenti, L. Galbany, R. Kessler, D. P. Schneider, J. C. Wheeler,

In Press
ArXiv: 1501.07116

Peer-review Platform for Astronomy Education Activities
Russo, Pedro
et al. Russo, Pedro, Gomez, Edward, Heenatigala, Thilina, Strubbe, Linda,

In Press
ArXiv: 1501.00495

The Needle in the 100 deg2 Haystack: Uncovering Afterglows of Fermi GRBs with the Palomar Transient Factory
Leo P. Singer
et al. Leo P. Singer, Mansi M. Kasliwal, S. Bradley Cenko, Daniel A. Perley, Gemma E. Anderson, G. C. Anupama, Iair Arcavi, Varun Bhalerao, Brian D. Bue, Yi Cao, Valerie Connaughton, Alessandra Corsi, Antonino Cucchiara, Rob P. Fender, Derek B. Fox, Neil Gehrels, Adam Goldstein, J. Gorosabel, Assaf Horesh, Kevin Hurley, Joel Johansson, D. A. Kann, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Kuiyun Huang, S. R. Kulkarni, Frank Masci, Peter Nugent, Arne Rau, Umaa D. Rebbapragada, Tim D. Staley, Dmitry Svinkin, C. C. Thöne, A. de Ugarte Postigo, Yuji Urata, Alan Weinstein,

Published Jan 2015
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 799, Issue 1, article id. 105, 8 pp. (2015).
ArXiv: 1411.4150

Observations of the M82 SN 2014J with the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope
Siverd, Robert J.
et al. Siverd, Robert J., Goobar, Ariel, Stassun, Keivan G., Pepper, Joshua,

In Press
ArXiv: 1410.8827

Searching for variable stars in the cores of five metal rich globular clusters using EMCCD observations
Jesper Skottfelt
et al. Jesper Skottfelt, D. M. Bramich, R. Figuera Jaimes, U. G. Jørgensen, N. Kains, A. Arellano Ferro, K. A. Alsubai, V. Bozza, S. Calchi Novati, S. Ciceri, G. DAgo, M. Dominik, P. Galianni, S. -H. Gu, K. B. W Harpsøe, T. Haugbølle, T. C. Hinse, M. Hundertmark, D. Juncher, H. Korhonen, C. Liebig, L. Mancini, A. Popovas, M. Rabus, S. Rahvar, G. Scarpetta, R. W. Schmidt, C. Snodgrass, J. Southworth, D. Starkey, R. A. Street, J. Surdej, X. -B. Wang, O. Wertz,

Published Jan 2015
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 799, Issue 1, article id. 106, 7 pp. (2015).
ArXiv: 1410.1363

Constraints on the Origin of the First Light from SN 2014J
Goobar, A.
et al. Goobar, A., Kromer, M., Siverd, R., Stassun, K. G., Pepper, J., Amanullah, R., Kasliwal, M., Sollerman, J., Taddia, F.,

In Press
ArXiv: 1408.1093

Comprehensive observations of the bright and energetic Type Iax SN 2012Z: Interpretation as a Chandrasekhar mass white dwarf explosion
{Stritzinger}, M.~D.
et al. {Stritzinger}, M.~D., {Valenti}, S., {Hoeflich}, P., {Baron}, E., {Phillips}, M.~M., {Taddia}, F., {Foley}, R.~J., {Hsiao}, E.~Y., {Jha}, S.~W., {McCully}, C., {Pandya}, V., {Simon}, J.~D., {Benetti}, S., {Brown}, P.~J., {Burns}, C.~R., {Campillay}, A., {Contreras}, C., {F{\"o}rster}, F., {Holmbo}, S., {Marion}, G.~H., {Morrell}, N., {Pignata}, G.,