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  • GROWTH on S190426c II: GROWTH-India Telescope search for an optical counterpart with a custom image reduction and candidate vetting pipeline 
    Kumar, Harsh; Bhalerao, Varun; Anupama, G. C; Barway, Sudhanshu; Coughlin, Michael W; De, Kishalay; Deshmukh, Kunal; Dutta, Anirban; Goldstein, Daniel A; Jassani, Adeem; Joharle, Simran; Karambelker, Viraj; Khandagale, Maitreya; Kumar, B; Saraogi, Divita; Sharma, Yashvi; Shenoy, Vedant; Singer, Leo; Singh, A; Waratkar, Gaurav (Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, 2022-11)
    S190426c/GW190426 152155 was the first probable neutron star–black hole merger candidate detected by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration. We undertook a tiled search for optical counterparts of this event using the 0.7-m ...
  • GROWTH-India Observations of Solar System Objects 
    Sharma, Kritti; Kumar, Harsh; Bolin, Bryce; Bhalerao, Varun; Anupama, G. C; Barway, Sudhanshu (Europlanet Science Congress, 2021-09)
    The discovery, characterisation, and monitoring of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are critical for understanding and potentially mitigating the long-term threats to our civilisation from Potential Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). ...
  • In Search of Short Gamma-Ray Burst Optical Counterparts with the Zwicky Transient Facility 
    Ahumada, Tomás; Anand, Shreya; Coughlin, Michael W; Andreoni, Igor; Kool, Erik C; Kumar, Harsh; Reusch, Simeon; Sagués-Carracedo, Ana; Stein, Robert; Cenko, Bradley S; Kasliwal, Mansi M; Singer, Leo P; Dunwoody, Rachel; Mangan, Joseph; Bhalerao, Varun; Bulla, Mattia; Burns, Eric; Graham, Matthew J; Kaplan, David L; Perley, Daniel; Almualla, Mouza; Bloom, Joshua S; Cunningham, Virginia; De, Kishalay; Gatkine, Pradip; Ho, Anna Y. Q; Karambelkar, Viraj; Kong, Albert K. H; Yao, Yuhan; Anupama, G. C; Barway, Sudhanshu; Ghosh, Shaon; Itoh, Ryosuke; McBreen, Sheila; Bellm, Eric C; Fremling, Christoffer; Laher, Russ R; Mahabal, Ashish A; Riddle, Reed L; Rosnet, Philippe; Rusholme, Ben; Smith, Roger; Sollerman, Jesper; Bissaldi, Elisabetta; Fletcher, Corinne; Hamburg, Rachel; Mailyan, Bagrat; Malacaria, Christian; Roberts, Oliver (American Astronomical Society, 2022-06-10)
    The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) triggers on-board in response to ∼40 short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) per year; however, their large localization regions have made the search for optical counterparts a challenging ...
  • India's First Robotic Eye for Time-domain Astrophysics: The GROWTH-India Telescope 
    Kumar, Harsh; Bhalerao, Varun; Anupama, G. C; Barway, Sudhanshu; Basu, Judhajeet; Deshmukh, Kunal; De, Kishalay; Dutta, Anirban; Fremling, Christoffer; Iyer, Hrishikesh; Jassani, Adeem; Joharle, Simran; Karambelkar, Viraj; Khandagale, Maitreya; Krishna, K Adithya; Kulkarni, Sumeet; Mate, Sujay; Patil, Atharva; Phanindra, D. V. S; Samantaray, Subham; Sharma, Kritti; Sharma, Yashvi; Shenoy, Vedant; Singh, Avinash; Srivastava, Shubham; Swain, Vishwajeet; Waratkar, Gaurav; Angchuk, D; Dorjay, Padma; Dorjai, T; Gyalson, T; Jorphail, S; Mahay, T. T; Norbu, Rigzin; Sharma, Tarun Kumar; Stanzin, Jigmet; Stanzin, Tsewang; Stanzin, Urgain (American Astronomical Society, 2022-09-01)
    We present the design and performance of the GROWTH-India telescope, a 0.7 m robotic telescope dedicated to time-domain astronomy. The telescope is equipped with a 4k back-illuminated camera that gives a 0fdg82 field of ...
  • Kilonova Luminosity Function Constraints Based on Zwicky Transient Facility Searches for 13 Neutron Star Merger Triggers during O3 
    Kasliwal, Mansi M; Anand, Shreya; Ahumada, Tomas; Stein, Robert; Carracedo, Ana Sagues; Andreoni, Igor; Coughlin, Michael W; Singer, Leo P; Kool, Erik C; Kishalay De; Harsh Kumar; Waratkar, Gaurav; Webb, Sara; Yu, Po-Chieh; Zhang, Bin-Bin; Zhou, Rongpu; Zolkower, Jeffry; AlMualla, Mouza; Yao, Yuhan; Bulla, Mattia; Dobie, Dougal; Reusch, Simeon; Perley, Daniel A; Cenko, S. Bradley; Bhalerao, Varun; Kaplan, David L; Sollerman, Jesper; Goobar, Ariel; Copperwheat, Christopher M; Bellm, Eric C; Anupama, G. C; Corsi, Alessandra; Nissanke, Samaya; Agudo, Ivan; Bagdasaryan, Ashot; Barway, Sudhanshu; Belicki, Justin; Bloom, Joshua S; Bolin, Bryce; Buckley, David A. H; Burdge, Kevin B; Burruss, Rick; Caballero-Garcia, Maria D; Cannella, Chris; Castro-Tirado, Alberto J; Cook, David O; Cooke, Jeff; Cunningham, Virginia; Dahiwale, Aishwarya; Deshmukh, Kunal; Dichiara, Simone; Duev, Dmitry A; Anirban Dutta; Feeney, Michael; Franckowiak, Anna; Frederick, Sara; Fremling, Christoffer; Gal-Yam, Avishay; Gatkine, Pradip; Ghosh, Shaon; Goldstein, Daniel A; Zach Golkhou, V; Graham, Matthew J; Graham, Melissa L; Hankins, Matthew J; Helou, George; Youdong Hu; Ip, Wing-Huen; Jaodand, Amruta; Karambelkar, Viraj; Kong, Albert K. H; Kowalski, Marek; Khandagale, Maitreya; Kulkarni, S. R; Brajesh Kumar; Laher, Russ R; Li, K. L; Mahaba, Ashish; Masci, Frank J; Miller, Adam A; Mogotsi, Moses; Mohite, Siddharth; Mooley, Kunal; Mroz, Przemek; Newman, Jeffrey A; Ngeow, Chow-Choong; Oates, Samantha R; Patil, Atharva Sunil; Pandey, S. B; Pavana, M; Pian, Elena; Riddle, Reed; Sanchez-Ramirez, Ruben; Sharma, Yashvi; Singh, A; Smith, Roger; Soumagnac, Maayane T; Taggart, Kirsty; Tan, Hanjie; Tzanidakis, Anastasios; Troja, Eleonora; Valeev, Azamat F; Walters, Richard (IOP Publishing, 2020-12-20)
    We present a systematic search for optical counterparts to 13 gravitational wave (GW) triggers involving at least one neutron star during LIGO/Virgo's third observing run (O3). We searched binary neutron star (BNS) and ...
  • The long-active afterglow of GRB 210204A: detection of the most delayed flares in a gamma-ray burst 
    Kumar, Harsh; Gupta, Rahul; Saraogi, Divita; Ahumada, Tomás; Andreoni, Igor; Anupama, G. C; Aryan, Amar; Barway, Sudhanshu; Bhalerao, Varun; Chandra, Poonam; Coughlin, Michael W; Dimple; Dutta, Anirban; Ghosh, Ankur; Ho, Anna Y. Q; Kool, E. C; Kumar, Amit; Medford, Michael S; Misra, Kuntal; Pandey, Shashi B; Perley, Daniel A; Riddle, Reed; Ror, Amit Kumar; Setiadi, Jason M; Yao, Yuhan (Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, 2022-06)
    We present results from extensive broadband follow-up of GRB 210204A over the period of 30 d. We detect optical flares in the afterglow at 7.6 × 105 s and 1.1 × 106 s after the burst: the most delayed flaring ever detected ...
  • Minutes-duration optical flares with supernova luminosities 
    Ho, Anna Y. Q; Perley, Daniel A; Chen, Ping; Schulze, Steve; Dhillon, Vik; Kumar, Harsh; Suresh, Aswin; Swain, Vishwajeet; Bremer, Michael; Smartt, Stephen J; Anderson, Joseph P; Anupama, G. C; Awiphan, Supachai; Barway, Sudhanshu; Bellm, Eric C; Ben-Ami, Sagi; Bhalerao, Varun; de Boer, Thomas; Brink, Thomas G; Burruss, Rick; Chandra, Poonam; Chen, Ting-Wan; Chen, Wen-Ping; Cooke, Jeff; Coughlin, Michael W; Das, Kaustav K; Drake, Andrew J; Filippenko, Alexei V; Freeburn, James; Fremling, Christoffer; Fulton, Michael D; Gal-Yam, Avishay; Galbany, Lluís; Gao, Hua; Graham, Matthew J; Gromadzki, Mariusz; Gutierrez, Claudia P; Hinds, K. -Ryan; Inserra, Cosimo; Nayana, A. J; Karambelkar, Viraj; Kasliwal, Mansi M; Kulkarni, Shri; Muller-Bravo, Tomas E; Magnier, Eugene A; Mahabal, Ashish A; Moore, Thomas; Ngeow, Chow-Choong; Nicholl, Matt; Ofek, Eran O; Omand, Conor M. B; Onori, Francesca; Pan, Yen-Chen; Pessi, Priscila J; Petitpas, Glen; Polishook, David; Poshyachinda, Saran; Pursiainen, Miika; Riddle, Reed; Rodriguez, Antonio C; Rusholme, Ben; Segre, Enrico; Sharma, Yashvi; Smith, Ken W; Sollerman, Jesper; Srivastav, Shubham; Strotjohann, Nora Linn; Suhrx, Mark; Svinkin, Dmitry; Wang, Yanan; Wiseman, Philip; Wold, Avery; Yang, Sheng; Yang, Yi; Yao, Yuhan; Young, David R; Zheng, WeiKang (Springer Nature, 2023-11-30)
    In recent years, certain luminous extragalactic optical transients have been observed to last only a few days1. Their short observed duration implies a different powering mechanism from the most common luminous extragalactic ...
  • Outbursts of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko 
    Sharma, Kritti; Kelley, Michael S. P; Joharle, Simran; Kumar, Harsh; Swain, Vishwajeet; Bhalerao, Varun; Anupama, G. C; Barway, Sudhanshu (IOP Publishing, 2021-12)
    We monitored the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko close to its perihelion in November 2021 with the GROWTH-India Telescope. We observed two outbursts of this comet on 2021 October 29.940 and November 17.864 UTC, -3.12 days ...
  • Real-time discovery of AT2020xnd: a fast, luminous ultraviolet transient with minimal radioactive ejecta 
    Perley, Daniel A; Ho, Anna Y. Q; Yao, Yuhan; Fremling, Christoffer; Anderson, Joseph P; Schulze, Steve; Kumar, Harsh; Anupama, G. C; Barway, Sudhanshu; Bellm, Eric C; Bhalerao, Varun; Chen, Ting-Wan; Duev, Dmitry A; Galbany, Llu´ıs; Graham, Matthew J; Gromadzk, Mariusz; Gutierrez, Claudia P; Ihanec, Nada; Inserra, Cosimo; Kasliwal, Mansi M; Kool, Erik C; Kulkarni, S. R; Laher, Russ R; Masci, Frank J; Neill, James D; Nicholl, Matt; Pursiainen, Miika; Roestel, Joannes van; Sharma, Yashvi; Sollerman, Jesper; Walters, Richard; Wiseman, Philip (Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, 2021-12)
    The many unusual properties of the enigmatic AT2018cow suggested that at least some subset of the empirical class of fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) represents a genuinely new astrophysical phenomenon. Unfortunately, ...
  • A Sensitive Search for Supernova Emission Associated with the Extremely Energetic and Nearby GRB 221009A 
    Srinivasaragavan, Gokul P; O'Connor, Brendan; Bradley Cenko, S; Dittmann, Alexander J; Yang, Sheng; Sollerman, Jesper; Anupama, G. C; Barway, Sudhanshu; Bhalerao, Varun; Kumar, Harsh; Swain, Vishwajeet; Hammerstein, Erica; Holt, Isiah; Anand, Shreya; Andreoni, Igor; Coughlin, Michael W; Dichiara, Simone; Gal-Yam, Avishay; Coleman Miller, M; Soon, Jaime; Soria, Roberto; Durbak, Joseph; Gillanders, James H; Laha, Sibasish; Moore, Anna M; Ragosta, Fabio; Troja, Eleonora (American Astronomical Society, 2023-06-01)
    We report observations of the optical counterpart of the long gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A. Due to the extreme rarity of being both nearby (z = 0.151) and highly energetic (Eγ,iso 1054 erg), GRB 221009A offers a unique ...
  • SN 2018hna: 1987A-like supernova with a signature of shock breakout 
    Singh, A; Sahu, D. K; Anupama, G. C; Brajesh Kumar; Harsh Kumar; Yamanaka, Masayuki; Baklanov, Petr V; Tominaga, Nozomu; Blinnikov, Sergei. I; Maeda, Keiichi; Anirban, D; Bhalerao, Varun; Ramya, M. Anche; Barway, Sudhanshu; Akitaya, Hiroshi; Nakaoka, Tatsuya; Kawabata, Miho; Kawabata, Koji. S; Sasada, Mahito; Takagi, Kengo; Maehara, Hiroyuki; Isogai, Keisuke; Kino, Masaru; Taguchi, Kenta; Nagao, Takashi (IOP Publishing, 2019-09-10)
    High-cadence ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared photometric and low-resolution spectroscopic observations of the peculiar Type II supernova (SN) 2018hna are presented. The early-phase multiband light curves (LCs) ...
  • SN 2020sck: Deflagration in a Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarf 
    Dutta, Anirban; Sahu, D. K; Anupama, G. C; Joharle, Simran; Kumar, Brajesh; Nayana, A. J; Singh, Avinash; Kumar, Harsh; Bhalerao, Varun; Barway, Sudhanshu (American Astronomical Society, 2022-02-01)
    We present optical UBVRI photometry and low-to-medium resolution spectroscopic observations of type Iax supernova SN 2020sck spanning −5.5 days to +67 days from maximum light in the B-band. From the photometric analysis ...
  • A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole 
    Andreoni, Igor; Coughlin, Michael W; Perley, Daniel A; Yao, Yuhan; Lu, Wenbin; Bradley Cenko, S; Kumar, Harsh; Anand, Shreya; Ho, Anna Y. Q; Kasliwal, Mansi M; de Ugarte Postigo, Antonio; Sagues-Carracedo, Ana; Schulze, Steve; Alexander Kann, D; Kulkarni, S. R; Sollerman, Jesper; Tanvir, Nial; Rest, Armin; Izzo, Luca; Somalwar, Jean J; Kaplan, David L; Ahumada, Tomas; Anupama, G. C; Auchettl, Katie; Barway, Sudhanshu; Bellm, Eric C; Bhalerao, Varun; Bloom, Joshua S; Bremer, Michael; Bulla, Mattia; Burns, Eric; Campana, Sergio; Chandra, Poonam; Charalampopoulos, Panos; Cooke, Jeff; D’Elia, Valerio; Das, Kaustav Kashyap; Dobie, Dougal; Fernandez, Jose Feliciano Agui; Freeburn, James; Fremling, Cristoffer; Gezari, Suvi; Goode, Simon; Graham, Matthew J; Hammerstein, Erica; Karambelkar, Viraj R; Kilpatrick, Charles D; Kool, Erik C; Krips, Melanie; Laher, Russ R; Leloudas, Giorgos; Levan, Andrew; Lundquist, Michael J; Mahabal, Ashish A; Medford, Michael S; Coleman Miller, M; Moller, Anais; Mooley, Kunal P; Nayana, A. J; Nir, Guy; Pang, Peter T. H; Paraskeva, Emmy; Perley, Richard A; Petitpas, Glen; Pursiainen, Miika; Ravi, Vikram; Ridden-Harper, Ryan; Riddle, Reed; Rigault, Mickael; Rodriguez, Antonio C; Rusholme, Ben; Sharma, Yashvi; Smith, I. A; Stein, Robert D; Thone, Christina; Tohuvavohu, Aaron; Valdes, Frank; van Roestel, Jan; Vergani, Susanna D; Wang, Qinan; Zhang, Jielai (Springer Nature, 2022-12-15)
    Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are bursts of electromagnetic energy that are released when supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies violently disrupt a star that passes too close1. TDEs provide a window through ...

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