Time-series and Phasecurve Photometry of Episodically-Active Asteroid (6478) Gault in a Quiescent State Using APO, GROWTH, P200 and ZTF

no code implementations • 25 Feb 2021 • Josiah N. Purdum, Zhong-Yi Lin, Bryce T. Bolin, Kritti Sharma, Phillip I. Choi, Varun Bhalerao, Harsh Kumar, Robert Quimby, Joannes C. Van Roestel, Chengxing Zhai, Yanga R. Fernandez, Josef Hanuš, Carey M. Lisse, Dennis Bodewits, Christoffer Fremling, Nathan Ryan Golovich, Chen-Yen Hsu, Wing-Huen Ip, Chow-Choong Ngeow, Navtej S. Saini, Michael Shao, Yuhan Yao, Tomás Ahumada, Shreya Anand, Igor Andreoni, Kevin B. Burdge, Rick Burruss, Chan-Kao Chang, Chris M. Copperwheat, Michael Coughlin, Kishalay De, Richard Dekany, Alexandre Delacroix, Andrew Drake, Dmitry Duev, Matthew Graham, David Hale, Erik C. Kool, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Iva S. Kostadinova, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Russ R. Laher, Ashish Mahabal, Frank J. Masci, Przemyslaw J. Mróz, James D. Neill, Reed Riddle, Hector Rodriguez, Roger M. Smith, Richard Walters, Lin Yan, Jeffry Zolkower

We observed Episodically Active Asteroid (6478) Gault in 2020 with multiple telescopes in Asia and North America and have found that it is no longer active after its recent outbursts at the end of 2018 and start of 2019.

Time Series Analysis Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

RR Lyrae variables in Messier 53: Near-infrared Period--Luminosity relations and the calibration using Gaia Early Data Release 3

no code implementations • 25 Dec 2020 • Anupam Bhardwaj, Marina Rejkuba, Richard de Grijs, Soung-Chul Yang, Gregory J. Herczeg, Marcella Marconi, Harinder P. Singh, Shashi Kanbur, Chow-Choong Ngeow

Multi-epoch $JHK_s$ observations, obtained with the WIRCam instrument on the 3. 6-m Canada France Hawaii Telescope, are used for the first time to estimate precise mean-magnitudes for 63 RR Lyrae stars in M53 including 29 fundamental-mode (RRab) and 34 first-overtone modes (RRc) variables.

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies