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List of works by Robert Quimby

An early and comprehensive millimetre and centimetre wave and X-ray study of SN 2011dh: a non-equipartition blast wave expanding into a massive stellar wind

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Be STARS IN THE OPEN CLUSTER NGC 6830

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Calcium-rich gap transients in the remote outskirts of galaxies

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Characterization of the Nucleus, Morphology and Activity of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov by Optical and Near-Infrared GROWTH, Apache Point, IRTF, ZTF and Keck Observations

Constraints on Circumstellar Material around the Type Ia Supernova 2007af

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Cosmological Distance Measurement of Twelve Nearby Supernovae IIP with ROTSE-IIIb

scholarly article

Detection of broad H{alpha} emission lines in the late-time spectra of a hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Discovery and early multi-wavelength measurements of the energetic type Ic supernova PTF12gzk: a massive-star explosion in a dwarf host galaxy

scholarly article

Discovery of a cosmological, relativistic outburst via its rapidly fading optical emission

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Early radio and X-ray observations of the youngest nearby type Ia supernova PTF 11kly (SN 2011fe)

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Evidence for an FU Orionis-like outburst from a classical T Tauri star

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

scientific article published on 14 December 2011

Far-UV HST Spectroscopy of an Unusual Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernova: SN2017egm

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Far-ultraviolet to Near-infrared Spectroscopy of a Nearby Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernova Gaia16apd

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae with Late-time Hα Emission: Three Events From the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

IPAC Image Processing and Data Archiving for the Palomar Transient Factory

Illuminating gravitational waves: A concordant picture of photons from a neutron star merger

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Interaction-powered supernovae: rise-time versus peak-luminosity correlation and the shock-breakout velocity

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Light Curves of Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Low-cost Access to the Deep, High-cadence Sky: the Argus Optical Array

scientific article published in 2022

M31N 2008-12a—THE REMARKABLE RECURRENT NOVA IN M31: PANCHROMATIC OBSERVATIONS OF THE 2015 ERUPTION

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

On the early-time excess emission in hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

scholarly article

PTF10nvg: AN OUTBURSTING CLASS I PROTOSTAR IN THE PELICAN/NORTH AMERICAN NEBULA

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Pulsational Pair-instability Model for Superluminous Supernova PTF12dam:Interaction and Radioactive Decay

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Real-time detection and rapid multiwavelength follow-up observations of a highly subluminous type II-P supernova from the Palomar Transient Factory survey

scientific article published in January 2011

SN 2006gy: Discovery of the Most Luminous Supernova Ever Recorded, Powered by the Death of an Extremely Massive Star like η Carinae

scientific article (publication date: 10 September 2007)

SN 2010mb: direct evidence for a supernova interacting with a large amount of hydrogen-free circumstellar material

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

SN 2011dh: DISCOVERY OF A TYPE IIb SUPERNOVA FROM A COMPACT PROGENITOR IN THE NEARBY GALAXY M51

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SN2012ab: a peculiar Type IIn supernova with aspherical circumstellar material

scholarly article

Slow-speed supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory: two channels

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Spatially resolved analysis of superluminous supernovae PTF 11hrq and PTF 12dam host galaxies

scientific article

Spectra of Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Supernova SN 2011fe from an exploding carbon-oxygen white dwarf star

scientific article

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

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

TIC 172900988: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet Detected in One Sector of TESS Data

scholarly article

TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE STRONGLY INTERACTING WITH THEIR CIRCUMSTELLAR MEDIUM

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The PTF Orion project: a possible planet transiting a T-Tauri star

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Palomar Transient Factory Core-collapse Supernova Host-galaxy Sample. I. Host-galaxy Distribution Functions and Environment Dependence of Core-collapse Supernovae

scientific article

The SED Machine: A Robotic Spectrograph for Fast Transient Classification

The SED Machine: A Spectrograph to Efficiently Classify Transient Events Discovered by PTF

The SED Machine: a dedicated transient IFU spectrograph

The extreme hosts of extreme supernovae

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The fast, luminous ultraviolet transient AT2018cow: extreme supernova, or disruption of a star by an intermediate-mass black hole?

scholarly article by Daniel A Perley et al published 22 December 2018 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova iPTF 13ajg and its host galaxy in absorption and emission

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The most slowly declining type Ia supernova 2001ay

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The progenitor of supernova 2011dh/PTF11eon in Messier 51

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Three new eclipsing white-dwarf-M-dwarf binaries discovered in a search for transiting planets around m-dwarfs

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Type II supernova energetics and comparison of light curves to shock-cooling models

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Type II-P supernovae from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey and the Standardized Candle Method

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Variable sodium absorption in a low-extinction type Ia supernova

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

iPTF17cw: An Engine-driven Supernova Candidate Discovered Independent of a Gamma-Ray Trigger

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal