Nathaniel Butler

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Nathaniel Butler

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  • 2016

    OPTICAL AND NEAR-INFRARED OBSERVATIONS OF SN 2013DX ASSOCIATED WITH GRB 130702A

    Toy, V. L., Cenko, S. B., Silverman, J. M., Butler, N., Cucchiara, A., Watson, A. M., Bersier, D., Perley, D. A., Margutti, R., Bellm, E., Bloom, J. S., Cao, Y., Capone, J. I., Clubb, K., Corsi, A., De Cia, A., De Diego, J. A., Filippenko, A. V., Fox, O. D., Gal-Yam, A., & 16 othersGehrels, N., Georgiev, L., González, J. J., Kasliwal, M. M., Kelly, P. L., Kulkarni, S. R., Kutyrev, A. S., Lee, W. H., Prochaska, J. X., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Richer, M. G., Román-Zúñiga, C., Singer, L., Stern, D., Troja, E. & Veilleux, S., Feb 10 2016, In: Astrophysical Journal. 818, 1, 79.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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    40 Scopus citations

  • SDSS J0159+0105: A RADIO-QUIET QUASAR with A CENTI-PARSEC SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE BINARY CANDIDATE

    Zheng, Z. Y., Butler, N., Shen, Y., Jiang, L., Wang, J. X., Chen, X. & Cuadra, J., Aug 10 2016, In: Astrophysical Journal. 827, 1, 56.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    48 Scopus citations

  • The central engine of GRB 130831A and the energy breakdown of a relativistic explosion

    De Pasquale, M., Oates, S. R., Racusin, J. L., Kann, D. A., Zhang, B., Pozanenko, A., Volnova, A. A., Trotter, A., Frank, N., Cucchiara, A., Troja, E., Sbarufatti, B., Butler, N., Schulze, S., Cano, Z., Page, M. J., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Gorosabel, J., Lien, A., Fox, O., & 20 othersLittlejohns, O., Bloom, J. S., Prochaska, J. X., de Diego, J. A., Gonzalez, J., Richer, M. G., Román-Zúñiga, C., Watson, A. M., Gehrels, N., Moseley, H., Kutyrev, A., Zane, S., Hoette, V., Russell, R. R., Rumyantsev, V., Klunko, E., Burkhonov, O., Breeveld, A. A., Reichart, D. E. & Haislip, J. B., Jan 1 2016, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 455, 1, p. 1027-1042 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    22 Scopus citations
  • 2015

    A detailed study of the optical attenuation of gamma-ray bursts in the Swift era

    Littlejohns, O. M., Butler, N., Cucchiara, A., Watson, A. M., Fox, O. D., Lee, W. H., Kutyrev, A. S., Richer, M. G., Klein, C. R., Prochaska, J. X., Bloom, J. S., Troja, E., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., de Diego, J. A., Georgiev, L., González, J., Román-Zúñiga, C. G., Gehrels, N. & Moseley, H., May 21 2015, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 449, 3, p. 2919-2936 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    24 Scopus citations

  • A machine-learning method to infer fundamental stellar parameters from photometric light curves

    Miller, A. A., Bloom, J. S., Richards, J. W., Lee, Y. S., Starr, D. L., Butler, N., Tokarz, S., Smith, N. & Eisner, J. A., Jan 10 2015, In: Astrophysical Journal. 798, 2, 122.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    33 Scopus citations

  • Happy birthday swift: Ultra-long GRB 141121A and its broadband afterglow

    Cucchiara, A., Veres, P., Corsi, A., Cenko, S. B., Perley, D. A., Lien, A., Marshall, F. E., Pagani, C., Toy, V. L., Capone, J. I., Frail, D. A., Horesh, A., Modjaz, M., Butler, N. R., Littlejohns, O. M., Watson, A. M., Kutyrev, A. S., Lee, W. H., Richer, M. G., Klein, C. R., & 11 othersFox, O. D., Prochaska, J. X., Bloom, J. S., Troja, E., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., De Diego, J. A., Georgiev, L., González, J., Román-Zñiga, C. G., Gehrels, N. & Moseley, H., Oct 20 2015, In: Astrophysical Journal. 812, 2, 122.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    19 Scopus citations

  • IPTF14yb: The first discovery of a gamma-ray burst afterglow independent of a high-energy trigger

    Cenko, S. B., Urban, A. L., Perley, D. A., Horesh, A., Corsi, A., Fox, D. B., Cao, Y., Kasliwal, M. M., Lien, A., Arcavi, I., Bloom, J. S., Butler, N., Cucchiara, A., Diego, J. A. D., Filippenko, A. V., Gal-Yam, A., Gehrels, N., Georgiev, L., González, J. J., Graham, J. F., & 17 othersGreiner, J., Kann, D. A., Klein, C. R., Knust, F., Kulkarni, S. R., Kutyrev, A., Laher, R., Lee, W. H., Nugent, P. E., Xavier Prochaska, J., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Richer, M. G., Rubin, A., Urata, Y., Varela, K., Watson, A. M. & Wozniak, P. R., Apr 20 2015, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 803, 2, L24.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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    48 Scopus citations

  • THE ENERGY DEPENDENCE of GRB MINIMUM VARIABILITY TIMESCALES

    Golkhou, V. Z., Butler, N. & Littlejohns, O. M., Oct 1 2015, In: Astrophysical Journal. 811, 2, 93.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    52 Scopus citations

  • Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

    Ricker, G. R., Winn, J. N., Vanderspek, R., Latham, D. W., Bakos, G., Bean, J. L., Berta-Thompson, Z. K., Brown, T. M., Buchhave, L., Butler, N., Butler, R. P., Chaplin, W. J., Charbonneau, D., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., Clampin, M., Deming, D., Doty, J., De Lee, N., Dressing, C., Dunham, E. W., & 38 othersEndl, M., Fressin, F., Ge, J., Henning, T., Holman, M. J., Howard, A. W., Ida, S., Jenkins, J. M., Jernigan, G., Johnson, J. A., Kaltenegger, L., Kawai, N., Kjeldsen, H., Laughlin, G., Levine, A. M., Lin, D., Lissauer, J. J., MacQueen, P., Marcy, G., McCullough, P. R., Morton, T. D., Narita, N., Paegert, M., Palle, E., Pepe, F., Pepper, J., Quirrenbach, A., Rinehart, S. A., Sasselov, D., Sato, BE., Seager, S., Sozzetti, A., Stassun, K. G., Sullivan, P., Szentgyorgyi, A., Torres, G., Udry, S. & Villasenor, J., Jan 1 2015, In: Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems. 1, 1, 014003.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

    Open Access
    2519 Scopus citations
  • 2014

    A tidal disruption event in a nearby galaxy hosting an intermediate mass black hole

    Donato, D., Cenko, S. B., Covino, S., Troja, E., Pursimo, T., Cheung, C. C., Fox, O., Kutyrev, A., Campana, S., Fugazza, D., Landt, H. & Butler, N., Feb 1 2014, In: Astrophysical Journal. 781, 2, 59.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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    41 Scopus citations

  • A trio of gamma-ray burst supernovae: GRB 120729A, GRB 130215A/SN 2013ez, and GRB 130831A/SN 2013fu

    Cano, Z., De Ugarte Postigo, A., Pozanenko, A., Butler, N., Thöne, C. C., Guidorzi, C., Krühler, T., Gorosabel, J., Jakobsson, P., Leloudas, G., Malesani, D., Hjorth, J., Melandri, A., Mundell, C., Wiersema, K., D'Avanzo, P., Schulze, S., Gomboc, A., Johansson, A., Zheng, W., & 45 othersKann, D. A., Knust, F., Varela, K., Akerlof, C. W., Bloom, J., Burkhonov, O., Cooke, E., De Diego, J. A., Dhungana, G., Farina, C., Ferrante, F. V., Flewelling, H. A., Fox, O. D., Fynbo, J., Gehrels, N., Georgiev, L., González, J. J., Greiner, J., Güver, T., Hartoog, O., Hatch, N., Jelinek, M., Kehoe, R., Klose, S., Klunko, E., Kopač, D., Kutyrev, A., Krugly, Y., Lee, W. H., Levan, A., Linkov, V., Matkin, A., Minikulov, N., Molotov, I., Prochaska, J. X., Richer, M. G., Román-Zúñiga, C. G., Rumyantsev, V., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Steele, I., Tanvir, N. R., Volnova, A., Watson, A. M., Xu, D. & Yuan, F., Aug 2014, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 568, A19.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    62 Scopus citations

  • GRB 130831A: Birth and death of a magnetar at z = 0.5

    De Pasquale, M., Oates, S. R., Racusin, J. L., Kann, D. A., Zhang, B., Pozanenko, A., Volnova, A. A., Trotter, A., Frank, N., Cucchiara, A., Troja, E., Sbarufatti, B., Butler, N., Schulze, S., Cano, Z., Page, M. J., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Gorosabel, J., Lien, A., Fox, O. D., & 20 othersLittlejohns, O., Bloom, J. S., Prochaska, J. X., De Diego, J. A., Gonzalez, J., Richer, M. G., Román-Zúñiga, C., Watson, A. M., Gehrels, N., Moseley, H., Kutyrev, A., Zane, S., Hoette, V., Russell, R. R., Rumyantsev, V., Klunko, E., Burkhonov, O., Breeveld, A. A., Reichart, D. E. & Haislip, J. B., 2014, In: Proceedings of Science. 071.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

  • Identifying high-redshift gamma-ray bursts with RATIR

    Littlejohns, O. M., Butler, N., Cucchiara, A., Watson, A. M., Kutyrev, A. S., Lee, W. H., Richer, M. G., Klein, C. R., Fox, O. D., Prochaska, J. X., Bloom, J. S., Troja, E., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., De Diego, J. A., Georgiev, L., González, J., Román-Zúñiga, C. G., Gehrels, N. & Moseley, H., Jul 2014, In: Astronomical Journal. 148, 1, 2.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    8 Scopus citations

  • Investigating signatures of cosmological time dilation in duration measures of prompt gamma-ray burst light curves

    Littlejohns, O. M. & Butler, N., Mar 19 2014, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 444, 4, p. 3948-3960 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    13 Scopus citations

  • Mid-infrared period-luminosity relations of RR Lyrae stars derived from the AllWISE Data Release

    Klein, C. R., Richards, J. W., Butler, N. & Bloom, J. S., Feb 2014, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 440, 1, p. L96-L100

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    28 Scopus citations

  • The transiting exoplanet survey satellite

    Ricker, G. R., Winn, J. N., Vanderspek, R., Latham, D. W., Bakos, G., Bean, J. L., Berta-Thompson, Z. K., Brown, T. M., Buchhave, L., Butler, N., Butler, R. P., Chaplin, W. J., Charbonneau, D., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., Clampin, M., Deming, D., Doty, J., De Lee, N., Dressing, C., Dunham, E. W., & 38 othersEndl, M., Fressin, F., Ge, J., Henning, T., Holman, M. J., Howard, A. W., Ida, S., Jenkins, J., Jernigan, G., Johnson, J. A., Kaltenegger, L., Kawai, N., Kjeldsen, H., Laughlin, G., Levine, A. M., Lin, D., Lissauer, J. J., Macqueen, P., Marcy, G., McCullough, P. R., Morton, T. D., Narita, N., Paegert, M., Palle, E., Pepe, F., Pepper, J., Quirrenbach, A., Rinehart, S. A., Sasselov, D., Sato, BE., Seager, S., Sozzetti, A., Stassun, K. G., Sullivan, P., Szentgyorgyi, A., Torres, G., Udry, S. & Villasenor, J., 2014, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave. Oschmann, J. M., Clampin, M., MacEwen, H. A. & Fazio, G. G. (eds.). SPIE, 914320. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 9143).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

    698 Scopus citations

  • Uncovering the intrinsic variability of gamma-ray bursts

    Golkhou, V. Z. & Butler, N., May 20 2014, In: Astrophysical Journal. 787, 1, 90.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    56 Scopus citations
  • 2013

    Erratum: Mid-infrared period-luminosity relations of rr lyrae stars derived from the wise preliminary data release (Astrophysical Journal (2011) 738 (185))

    Klein, C. R., Richards, J. W., Butler, N. R. & Bloom, J. S., Feb 10 2013, In: Astrophysical Journal. 764, 1, 110.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

  • Identification of outliers through clustering and semi-supervised learning for all sky surveys

    Bhattacharyya, S., Richards, J. W., Rice, J., Starr, D. L., Butler, N. R. & Bloom, J. S., Dec 1 2013, Information Systems Development: Reflections, Challenges and New Directions. p. 483-485 3 p. (Information Systems Development: Reflections, Challenges and New Directions).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • 2012

    A Bayesian approach to calibrating period-luminosity relations of RR Lyrae stars in the mid-infrared

    Klein, C. R., Richards, J. W., Butler, N. & Bloom, J. S., Sep 2012, In: Astrophysics and Space Science. 341, 1, p. 83-87 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    3 Scopus citations

  • A compact degenerate primary-star progenitor of SN 2011fe

    Bloom, J. S., Kasen, D., Shen, K. J., Nugent, P. E., Butler, N., Graham, M. L., Andrew Howell, D., Kolb, U., Holmes, S., Haswell, C. A., Burwitz, V., Rodriguez, J. & Sullivan, M., Jan 10 2012, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 744, 2, L17.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    259 Scopus citations

  • Active learning to overcome sample selection bias: Application to photometric variable star classification

    Richards, J. W., Starr, D. L., Brink, H., Miller, A. A., Bloom, J. S., Butler, N. R., Berian James, J., Long, J. P. & Rice, J., Jan 10 2012, In: Astrophysical Journal. 744, 2, 192.

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    Open Access
    53 Scopus citations

  • Automating discovery and classification of transients and variable stars in the synoptic survey era

    Bloom, J. S., Richards, J. W., Nugent, P. E., Quimby, R. M., Kasliwal, M. M., Starr, D. L., Poznanski, D., Ofek, E. O., Cenko, S. B., Butler, N., Kulkarni, S. R., Gal-Yam, A. & Law, N., Nov 2012, In: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 124, 921, p. 1175-1196 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    142 Scopus citations

  • Automation of the OAN/SPM 1.5-meter Johnson telescope for operations with RATIR

    Watson, A. M., Richer, M. G., Bloom, J. S., Butler, N., Ceseña, U., Clark, D., Colorado, E., Córdova, A., Farah, A., Fox-Machado, L., Fox, O. D., García, B., Georgiev, L. N., González, J. J., Guisa, G., Gutiérrez, L., Herrera, J., Klein, C. R., Kutyrev, A. S., Lazo, F., & 13 othersLee, W. H., López, E., Luna, E., Martínez, B., Murillo, F., Murillo, J. M., Núñez, J. M., Prochaska, J. X., Ochoa, J. L., Quirós, F., Rapchun, D. A., Román-Zúñiga, C. & Valyavin, G., 2012, Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes IV. 84445L. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 8444).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

    40 Scopus citations

  • Construction of a calibrated probabilistic classification catalog: Application to 50k variable sources in the All-Sky automated survey

    Richards, J. W., Starr, D. L., Miller, A. A., Bloom, J. S., Butler, N., Brink, H. & Crellin-Quick, A., Dec 2012, In: Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series. 203, 2, 32.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    92 Scopus citations

  • First light with RATIR: An automated 6-band optical/NIR imaging camera

    Butler, N., Klein, C., Fox, O., Lotkin, G., Bloom, J., Prochaska, J. X., RamirezRuiz, E., De Diego, J. A., Georgiev, L., González, J., Lee, W. H., Richer, M. G., Román, C., Watson, A. M., Gehrels, N., Kutyrev, A., Bernstein, R., Alvarez, L. C., Ceseña, U., Clark, D., & 22 othersColorado, E., Córdova, A., Farah, A., García, B., Guisa, G., Herrera, J., Lazo, F., López, E., Luna, E., Martínez, B., Murillo, F., Murillo, J. M., Núñez, J. M., Pedrayes, M. H., Quirós, F., Ochoa, J. L., Sierra, G., Moseley, H., Rapchun, D., Robinson, F. D., Samuel, M. V. & Sparr, L. M., 2012, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. 844610. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 8446).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

    57 Scopus citations

  • Identification of outliers through clustering and semi-supervised learning for all sky surveys

    Bhattacharyya, S., Richards, J. W., Rice, J., Starr, D. L., Butler, N. R. & Bloom, J. S., 2012, Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V. Springer Science and Business Media, LLC, p. 483-485 3 p. (Lecture Notes in Statistics; vol. 209).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

    1 Scopus citations

  • Mechanical design and integration of the support structure for the Reionization And Transients InfRared instrument RATIR

    Farah, A., González, J. J., Kutyrev, A. S., Lotkin, G., Watson, A. M., Butler, N., Lee, W. H., Richer, M. G., López, E., Clark, D., Cabak, G., Fox, O. D., Rapchun, D. A., Román-Zúñiga, C. & Georgiev, L., 2012, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. 84469O. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 8446).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

    5 Scopus citations

  • ORIGIN: Metal creation and evolution from the cosmic dawn

    den Herder, J. W., Piro, L., Ohashi, T., Kouveliotou, C., Hartmann, D. H., Kaastra, J. S., Amati, L., Andersen, M. I., Arnaud, M., Attéia, J. L., Bandler, S., Barbera, M., Barcons, X., Barthelmy, S., Basa, S., Basso, S., Boer, M., Branchini, E., Branduardi-Raymont, G., Borgani, S., & 139 othersBoyarsky, A., Brunetti, G., Budtz-Jorgensen, C., Burrows, D., Butler, N., Campana, S., Caroli, E., Ceballos, M., Christensen, F., Churazov, E., Comastri, A., Colasanti, L., Cole, R., Content, R., Corsi, A., Costantini, E., Conconi, P., Cusumano, G., de Plaa, J., De Rosa, A., Del Santo, M., Di Cosimo, S., De Pasquale, M., Doriese, R., Ettori, S., Evans, P., Ezoe, Y., Ferrari, L., Finger, H., Figueroa-Feliciano, T., Friedrich, P., Fujimoto, R., Furuzawa, A., Fynbo, J., Gatti, F., Galeazzi, M., Gehrels, N., Gendre, B., Ghirlanda, G., Ghisellini, G., Gilfanov, M., Giommi, P., Girardi, M., Grindlay, J., Cocchi, M., Godet, O., Guedel, M., Haardt, F., den Hartog, R., Hepburn, I., Hermsen, W., Hjorth, J., Hoekstra, H., Holland, A., Hornstrup, A., van der Horst, A., Hoshino, A., in't Zand, J., Irwin, K., Ishisaki, Y., Jonker, P., Kitayama, T., Kawahara, H., Kawai, N., Kelley, R., Kilbourne, C., de Korte, P., Kusenko, A., Kuvvetli, I., Labanti, M., Macculi, C., Maiolino, R., Hesse, M. M., Matsushita, K., Mazzotta, P., McCammon, D., Méndez, M., Mignani, R., Mineo, T., Mitsuda, K., Mushotzky, R., Molendi, S., Moscardini, L., Natalucci, L., Nicastro, F., O'Brien, P., Osborne, J., Paerels, F., Page, M., Paltani, S., Pedersen, K., Perinati, E., Ponman, T., Pointecouteau, E., Predehl, P., Porter, S., Rasmussen, A., Rauw, G., Röttgering, H., Roncarelli, M., Rosati, P., Quadrini, E., Ruchayskiy, O., Salvaterra, R., Sasaki, S., Sato, K., Savaglio, S., Schaye, J., Sciortino, S., Shaposhnikov, M., Sharples, R., Shinozaki, K., Spiga, D., Sunyaev, R., Suto, Y., Takei, Y., Tanvir, N., Tashiro, M., Tamura, T., Tawara, Y., Troja, E., Tsujimoto, M., Tsuru, T., Ubertini, P., Ullom, J., Ursino, E., Verbunt, F., van de Voort, F., Viel, M., Wachter, S., Watson, D., Weisskopf, M., Werner, N., White, N., Willingale, R., Wijers, R., Yamasaki, N., Yoshikawa, K. & Zane, S., Oct 2012, In: Experimental Astronomy. 34, 2, p. 519-549 31 p.

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    9 Scopus citations

  • Performance and calibration of H2RG detectors and SIDECAR ASICs for the RATIR camera

    Fox, O. D., Kutyrev, A. S., Rapchun, D. A., Klein, C. R., Butler, N., Bloom, J., De Diego, J. A., Farah, A., Gehrels, N. A., Georgiev, L., González, J. J., Lee, W. H., Loose, M., Lotkin, G., Moseley, S. H., Prochaska, J. X., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Richer, M. G., Robinson, F. D., Román-Zúñiga, C., & 3 othersSamuel, M. V., Sparr, L. M. & Watson, A. M., 2012, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy V. 84531O. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 8453).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

    24 Scopus citations

  • PTF10iya: A short-lived, luminous flare from the nuclear region of a star-forming galaxy

    Cenko, S. B., Bloom, J. S., Kulkarni, S. R., Strubbe, L. E., Miller, A. A., Butler, N. R., Quimby, R. M., Gal-Yam, A., Ofek, E. O., Quataert, E., Bildsten, L., Poznanski, D., Perley, D. A., Morgan, A. N., Filippenko, A. V., Frail, D. A., Arcavi, I., Ben-Ami, S., Cucchiara, A., Fassnacht, C. D., & 11 othersGreen, Y., Hook, I. M., Howell, D. A., Lagattuta, D. J., Law, N. M., Kasliwal, M. M., Nugent, P. E., Silverman, J. M., Sullivan, M., Tendulkar, S. P. & Yaron, O., Mar 2012, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 420, 3, p. 2684-2699 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    79 Scopus citations

  • Rapid, machine-learned resource allocation: Application to high-redshift gamma-ray burst follow-up

    Morgan, A. N., Long, J., Richards, J. W., Broderick, T., Butler, N. & Bloom, J. S., Feb 20 2012, In: Astrophysical Journal. 746, 2, 170.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    11 Scopus citations

  • SN 2010jp (PTF10aaxi): A jet in a Type II supernova

    Smith, N., Cenko, S. B., Butler, N., Bloom, J. S., Kasliwal, M. M., Horesh, A., Kulkarni, S. R., Law, N. M., Nugent, P. E., Ofek, E. O., Poznanski, D., Quimby, R. M., Sesar, B., Ben-Ami, S., Arcavi, I., Gal-Yam, A., Polishook, D., Xu, D., Yaron, O., Frail, D. A., & 1 othersSullivan, M., Feb 2012, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 420, 2, p. 1135-1144 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    52 Scopus citations

  • Software solution for autonomous observations with H2RG detectors and SIDECAR ASICs for the RATIR camera

    Klein, C. R., Kubánek, P., Butler, N., Fox, O. D., Kutyrev, A. S., Rapchun, D. A., Bloom, J. S., Farah, A., Gehrels, N., Georgiev, L., González, J. J., Lee, W. H., Lotkin, G. N., Moseley, S. H., Prochaska, J. X., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Richer, M. G., Robinson, F. D., Román-Zúñiga, C., Samuel, M. V., & 3 othersSparr, L. M., Tucker, C. & Watson, A. M., 2012, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy V. 84532S. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 8453).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

    12 Scopus citations

  • Swift J2058.4+0516: Discovery of a possible second relativistic tidal disruption flare?

    Bradley Cenko, S., Krimm, H. A., Horesh, A., Rau, A., Frail, D. A., Kennea, J. A., Levan, A. J., Holland, S. T., Butler, N. R., Quimby, R. M., Bloom, J. S., Filippenko, A. V., Gal-Yam, A., Greiner, J., Kulkarni, S. R., Ofek, E. O., Olivares E., F., Schady, P., Silverman, J. M., Tanvir, N. R., & 1 othersXu, D., Jul 1 2012, In: Astrophysical Journal. 753, 1, 77.

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    174 Scopus citations

  • The luminous infrared host galaxy of short-duration GRB 100206A

    Perley, D. A., Modjaz, M., Morgan, A. N., Cenko, S. B., Bloom, J. S., Butler, N., Filippenko, A. V. & Miller, A. A., Oct 20 2012, In: Astrophysical Journal. 758, 2, 122.

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    36 Scopus citations
  • 2011

    Afterglow observations of Fermi large area telescope gamma-ray bursts and the emerging class of hyper-energetic events

    Cenko, S. B., Frail, D. A., Harrison, F. A., Haislip, J. B., Reichart, D. E., Butler, N. R., Cobb, B. E., Cucchiara, A., Berger, E., Bloom, J. S., Chandra, P., Fox, D. B., Perley, D. A., Prochaska, J. X., Filippenko, A. V., Glazebrook, K., Ivarsen, K. M., Kasliwal, M. M., Kulkarni, S. R., Lacluyze, A. P., & 4 othersLopez, S., Morgan, A. N., Pettini, M. & Rana, V. R., May 1 2011, In: Astrophysical Journal. 732, 1, 29.

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    148 Scopus citations

  • An extremely luminous panchromatic outburst from the nucleus of a distant galaxy

    Levan, A. J., Tanvir, N. R., Cenko, S. B., Perley, D. A., Wiersema, K., Bloom, J. S., Fruchter, A. S., De Ugarte Postigo, A., O'Brien, P. T., Butler, N., Van Der Horst, A. J., Leloudas, G., Morgan, A. N., Misra, K., Bower, G. C., Farihi, J., Tunnicliffe, R. L., Modjaz, M., Silverman, J. M., Hjorth, J., & 43 othersThöne, C., Cucchiara, A., Castro Cerón, J. M., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Arnold, J. A., Bremer, M., Brodie, J. P., Carroll, T., Cooper, M. C., Curran, P. A., Cutri, R. M., Ehle, J., Forbes, D., Fynbo, J., Gorosabel, J., Graham, J., Hoffman, D. I., Guziy, S., Jakobsson, P., Kamble, A., Kerr, T., Kasliwal, M. M., Kouveliotou, C., Kocevski, D., Law, N. M., Nugent, P. E., Ofek, E. O., Poznanski, D., Quimby, R. M., Rol, E., Romanowsky, A. J., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Schulze, S., Singh, N., Van Spaandonk, L., Starling, R. L. C., Strom, R. G., Tello, J. C., Vaduvescu, O., Wheatley, P. J., Wijers, R. A. M. J., Winters, J. M. & Xu, D., Jul 8 2011, In: Science. 333, 6039, p. 199-202 4 p.

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    283 Scopus citations

  • A possible relativistic jetted outburst from a massive black hole fed by a tidally disrupted star

    Bloom, J. S., Giannios, D., Metzger, B. D., Cenko, S. B., Perley, D. A., Butler, N. R., Tanvir, N. R., Levan, A. J., O'Brien, P. T., Strubbe, L. E., De Colle, F., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Lee, W. H., Nayakshin, S., Quataert, E., King, A. R., Cucchiara, A., Guillochon, J., Bower, G. C., Fruchter, A. S., & 2 othersMorgan, A. N. & Van Der Horst, A. J., Jul 8 2011, In: Science. 333, 6039, p. 203-206 4 p.

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    Open Access
    445 Scopus citations

  • Constraining gamma-ray burst emission physics with extensive early-time, multiband follow-up

    Cucchiara, A., Cenko, S. B., Bloom, J. S., Melandri, A., Morgan, A., Kobayashi, S., Smith, R. J., Perley, D. A., Li, W., Hora, J. L., Da Silva, R. L., Prochaska, J. X., Milne, P. A., Butler, N. R., Cobb, B., Worseck, G., Mundell, C. G., Steele, I. A., Filippenko, A. V., Fumagalli, M., & 4 othersKlein, C. R., Stephens, A., Bluck, A. & Mason, R., Dec 20 2011, In: Astrophysical Journal. 743, 2, 154.

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    59 Scopus citations

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

    Li, W., Bloom, J. S., Podsiadlowski, P., Miller, A. A., Cenko, S. B., Jha, S. W., Sullivan, M., Howell, D. A., Nugent, P. E., Butler, N., Ofek, E. O., Kasliwal, M. M., Richards, J. W., Stockton, A., Shih, H. Y., Bildsten, L., Shara, M. M., Bibby, J., Filippenko, A. V., Ganeshalingam, M., & 9 othersSilverman, J. M., Kulkarni, S. R., Law, N. M., Poznanski, D., Quimby, R. M., McCully, C., Patel, B., Maguire, K. & Shen, K. J., Dec 15 2011, In: Nature. 480, 7377, p. 348-350 3 p.

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    269 Scopus citations

  • Mid-infrared period-luminosity relations of RR Lyrae stars derived from the wise preliminary data release

    Klein, C. R., Richards, J. W., Butler, N. R. & Bloom, J. S., Sep 10 2011, In: Astrophysical Journal. 738, 2, 185.

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    20 Scopus citations

  • Monster in the dark: The ultraluminous GRB 080607 and its dusty environment

    Perley, D. A., Morgan, A. N., Updike, A., Yuan, F., Akerlof, C. W., Miller, A. A., Bloom, J. S., Cenko, S. B., Li, W., Filippenko, A. V., Prochaska, J. X., Kann, D. A., Tanvir, N. R., Levan, A. J., Butler, N. R., Christian, P., Hartmann, D. H., Milne, P., Rykoff, E. S., Rujopakarn, W., & 2 othersWheeler, J. C. & Williams, G. G., Feb 2011, In: Astronomical Journal. 141, 2

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    15 Scopus citations

  • On machine-learned classification of variable stars with sparse and noisy time-series data

    Richards, J. W., Starr, D. L., Butler, N. R., Bloom, J. S., Brewer, J. M., Crellin-Quick, A., Higgins, J., Kennedy, R. & Rischard, M., May 20 2011, In: Astrophysical Journal. 733, 1, 10.

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    234 Scopus citations

  • Optimal time-series selection of quasars

    Butler, N. R. & Bloom, J. S., Mar 2011, In: Astronomical Journal. 141, 3, 93.

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    105 Scopus citations

  • PTF10nvg: An outbursting class i protostar in the pelican/North American Nebula

    Covey, K. R., Hillenbrand, L. A., Miller, A. A., Poznanski, D., Cenko, S. B., Silverman, J. M., Bloom, J. S., Kasliwal, M. M., Fischer, W., Rayner, J., Rebul, L. M., Butler, N. R., Filippenko, A. V., Law, N. M., Ofek, E. O., Agüeros, M., Dekany, R. G., Rahmer, G., Hale, D., Smith, R., & 11 othersQuimby, R. M., Nugent, P., Jacobsen, J., Zolkower, J., Velur, V., Walters, R., Henning, J., Bui, K., McKenna, D., Kulkarni, S. R. & Klein, C., Feb 2011, In: Astronomical Journal. 141, 2

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    18 Scopus citations

  • SN 2010jp (PTF10aaxi): A jet-driven type II supernova

    Smith, N., Bradley Cenko, S., Butler, N., Bloom, J. S., Kasliwal, M. M., Horesh, A., Kulkarni, S. R., Law, N. M., Nugent, P. E., Ofek, E. O., Poznanski, D., Quimby, R. M., Sesar, B., Ben-Ami, S., Arcavi, I., Gal-Yam, A., Polishook, D., Xu, D., Yaron, O., Frail, D. A., & 1 othersSullivan, M., Apr 2011, Death of Massive Stars: Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts. S279 ed. Cambridge University Press, p. 159-166 8 p. (Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union; vol. 7, no. S279).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • The afterglows of swift-era gamma-ray bursts. II. Type I GRB versus type II GRB optical afterglows

    Kann, D. A., Klose, S., Zhang, B., Covino, S., Butler, N. R., Malesani, D., Nakar, E., Wilson, A. C., Antonelli, L. A., Chincarini, G., Cobb, B. E., D'Avanzo, P., D'Elia, V., Della Valle, M., Ferrero, P., Fugazza, D., Gorosabel, J., Israel, G. L., Mannucci, F., Piranomonte, S., & 4 othersSchulze, S., Stella, L., Tagliaferri, G. & Wiersema, K., Jun 10 2011, In: Astrophysical Journal. 734, 2, 96.

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    Open Access
    199 Scopus citations
  • 2010

    Evidence for supernova-synthesized dust from the rising afterglow of GRB 071025 at z ∼ 5

    Perley, D. A., Bloom, J. S., Klein, C. R., Covino, S., Minezaki, T., Woźniak, P., Vestrand, W. T., Williams, G. G., Milne, P., Butler, N. R., Updike, A. C., Krühler, T., Afonso, P., Antonelli, A., Cowie, L., Ferrero, P., Greiner, J., Hartmann, D. H., Kakazu, Y., Küpcü Yoldaş, A., & 4 othersMorgan, A. N., Price, P. A., Prochaska, J. X. & Yoshii, Y., Aug 2010, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 406, 4, p. 2473-2487 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    78 Scopus citations

  • GRB 090426: The environment of a rest-frame 0.35-s gamma-ray burst at a redshift of 2.609

    Levesque, E. M., Bloom, J. S., Butler, N. R., Perley, D. A., Cenko, S. B., Prochaska, J. X., Kewley, L. J., Bunker, A., Chen, H. W., Chornock, R., Filippenko, A. V., Glazebrook, K., Lopez, S., Masiero, J., Modjaz, M., Morgan, A. & Poznanski, D., Jan 2010, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 401, 2, p. 963-972 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    86 Scopus citations