Publications

Below is a listing of select publications that include CSS staff as authors or co-authors and/or apply CSS data to advance asteroid, comet, or celestial transient science.

Debiased orbit and absolute-magnitude distributions for near-Earth objects, Mikael Granvik, Alessandro Morbidelli, Robert Jedicke, Bryce Bolin, William F. Bottke, Edward Beshore, David Vokrouhlický, Patrick Michel, 2018, Icarus

 

Super-catastrophic disruption of asteroids at small perihelion distances, Mikael Granvik, Alessandro Morbidelli, Robert Jedicke, Bryce Bolin, William F. Bottke, Edward Beshore, David Vokrouhlický, Marco Delbò & Patrick Michel, 2016, Nature, V530, pp 303-306.

First Results from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey. A.J. Drake, S.G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal, E. Beshore, S. Larson, M.J. Graham, R. Williams, E. Christensen, M. Catelan, A. Boattini, A. Gibbs, R. Hill and R. Kowalski,
2009, ApJ, 696, 870

A systematic search for close supermassive black hole binaries in the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey
M.J. Graham, et al. 2015, MNRAS, 453, 1562 astro-ph

A possible close supermassive black-hole binary in a quasar with optical periodicity
M.J. Graham, S.G. Djorgovski, D. Stern, E. Glikman, A.J. Drake, A.A. Mahabal, C. Donalek, S. Larson, E. Christensen, 2015, Nature, 518, 7537 astro-ph

Discovery of ~9,000 new RR Lyrae in the Southern Catalina Surveys
G. Torrealba, M. Catelan, A.J. Drake, S.G. Djorgovski, R.H. McNaught, V. Belokurov, S. Koposov, et al.
2015, MNRAS, 446, 2251 astro-ph

Ultra-short Period Binaries from the Catalina Surveys
A.J. Drake, S.G. Djorgovski, D. Garcia-Alvarez, M.J. Graham, M. Catelan, et al.
2014, ApJ, 790, 157 astro-ph

The Catalina Surveys Periodic Variable Star Catalog
A.J. Drake, M.J. Graham, S.G. Djorgovski, M. Catelan, A.A. Mahabal, G. Torrealba, D. Garcia-Alvarez, et al.
2014, ApJS, 213, 9 astro-ph

Cataclysmic Variables from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey
A.J. Drake, B.T. Gaensicke, S.G. Djorgovski, P. Wils, A.A. Mahabal, M.J. Graham, T-C. Yang et al.
2014, MNRAS, 441, 1186 astro-ph

A novel variability-based method for quasar selection: evidence for a rest frame ~54 day characteristic timescale.
M.J. Graham, S.G. Djorgovski, A.J. Drake, A.A. Mahabal, M.Chang, D.Stern, C. Donalek, E. Glikman
2014, MNRAS, 439, 703 astro-ph.

Evidence for a Milky Way Tidal Stream Reaching Beyond 100 kpc.
A.J. Drake, M. Catelan, S.G. Djorgovski, G. Torrealba, M.J. Graham, A.A. Mahabal, J.L. Prieto et al.
2013, ApJ, 765, 154 astro-ph.

Probing the Outer Galactic halo with RR Lyrae from the Catalina Surveys.
A.J. Drake, M. Catelan, S.G. Djorgovski, G. Torrealba, M.J. Graham, V. Belokurov, S. E. Koposov et al.
2013, ApJ, 763, 32 astro-ph.

SN 2008jb: A "Lost" Core-Collapse Supernova in a Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxy at ~10 Mpc.
Prieto, Jose L.; Lee, J. C.; Drake, A. J.; McNaught, R.; Garradd, G.; Beacom, J. F.; Beshore, E.; Catelan, M.; Djorgovski, S. G.; Pojmanski, G.; K. Z. Stanek and D. M. Szczygiel,
2012, ApJ, 745, 70 astro-ph.

The Discovery and Nature of Optical Transient CSS100217:102913+404220.
Drake, A. J., Djorgovski S.G., Mahabal A., Anderson, J., Roy, R., Mohan, V., Ravindranath S., Frail D., Gezari, S., James D. Neill, L.C. Ho, J.L. Prieto, D. Thompson, J. Thorstensen, M. Wagner, R. Kowalski, J. Chiang, J.E. Grove, F.K. Schinzel, D.L. Wood, L. Carrasco, E. Recillas, L. Kewley, K.N. Archana, Aritra Basu, Yogesh Wadadekar, Brijesh Kumar, A.D. Myers, E.S. Phinney, R. Williams, M.J. Graham, M. Catelan, E. Beshore, S. Larson and E. Christensen 2011, ApJ, 705, 136 astro-ph.

Discovery of eclipsing white dwarf systems in a search for Earth-size companions.
Drake, A. J.; Beshore, E.; Catelan, M.; Djorgovski, S. G.; Graham, M. J.; Kleinman, S. J.; Larson, S.; Mahabal, A.; and Williams, R. astro-ph.

Discovery of the Extremely Energetic Supernova 2008fz.
Drake, A.J. , Djorgovski, S.G., Prieto, J.L., Mahabal, A., Balam, D., Williams, R., Graham, M.J., Catelan, M., Beshore, E. and Larson, S., 2010, ApJL, 718, 127 astro-ph.