The Catalina Real-time Transient Survey
Abstract
The Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS) currently covers 33,000 deg2 of the sky in search of transient astrophysical events, with time base-lines ranging from 10 minutes to ~7 years. Data provided by the Catalina Sky Survey provide an unequalled base-line against which > 4,000 unique optical transient events have been discovered and openly published in real-time. Here we highlight some of the discoveries of CRTS.
- Publication:
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New Horizons in Time Domain Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- April 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921312000889
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1111.2566
- Bibcode:
- 2012IAUS..285..306D
- Keywords:
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- (stars:) supernovæ: general;
- (galaxies:) BL Lacertae objects: general;
- stars: dwarf novæ stars;
- stars: flare;
- galaxies: dwarf;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- To appear in proc. IAU Symp. 285, "New Horizons in Time Domain Astronomy", eds. E. Griffin et al., Cambridge Univ. Press (2012), 3 pages