Kasliwal, M. M; Bally, J; Masci, F; Cody, Ann Marie; Bond, H. E; Jencson, Jacob E; Tinyanont, S; Cao, Y; Contreras, C; Dykhoff, Devin A; Amodeo, Samuel; Armus, L; Boyer, Martha; Cantiello, Matteo; Carlon, Robert L; Cass, Alexander C; Cook, David; Corgan, David T; Faella, Joseph; Fox, O. D; Green, Wayne; Gehrz, R. D; Helou, G; Hsiao, Eric; Johansson, J; Khan, Rubab M; Lau, Ryan M; Langer, Norbert; Levesque, Emily; Milne, Peter; Mohamed, Shazrene; Morrell, N; Monson, Andy; Moore, Anna; Ofek, E. O; O' Sullivan, Donal; Parthasarathy, M; Perez, Andres; Perley, D. A; Phillips, Mark; Prince, Thomas A; Shenoy, Dinesh; Smith, Nathan; Surace, J; Van Dyk, Schuyler D; Whitelock, P. A; Williams, Robert
(IOP Publishing, 2017-04-20)
We present an ongoing, five-year systematic search for extragalactic infrared transients, dubbed SPIRITS—SPitzer InfraRed Intensive Transients Survey. In the first year, using Spitzer/IRAC, we searched 190 nearby galaxies ...