Probing the extragalactic fast transient sky at minute timescales with DECam
2019
Research support to IA is also provided by the GROWTH project, funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant No 1545949. GROWTH is a collaborative project between California Institute of Technology (USA), Pomona College (USA), San Diego State University (USA), Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA), University of Maryland College Park (USA), University of
Wisconsin Milwaukee (USA), Tokyo Institute of Technology
(Japan), National Central University (Taiwan), Indian Institute
of Astrophysics (India), Inter-University Center for
Astronomy and Astrophysics (India), Weizmann Institute
of Science (Israel), The Oskar Klein Centre at Stockholm
University (Sweden), Humboldt University (Germany).
JC acknowledges the Australian Research Council Future
Fellowship grant FT130101219. This work has made use of data from the European Space
Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.
int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and
Analysis Consortium (DPAC, https://www.cosmos.esa.
int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC
has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement.
The national facility capability for SkyMapper has been
funded through ARC LIEF grant LE130100104 from the
Australian Research Council, awarded to the University of
Sydney, the Australian National University, Swinburne University
of Technology, the University of Queensland, the University
of Western Australia, the University of Melbourne,
Curtin University of Technology, Monash University and the
Australian Astronomical Observatory. SkyMapper is owned
and operated by The Australian National University's Research
School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
This project used data obtained with the Dark Energy Camera
(DECam), which was constructed by the Dark Energy
Survey (DES) collaboration. Funding for the DES Projects
has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the
U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science
and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology Facilities
Council of the United Kingdom, the Higher Education
Funding Council for England, the National Center
for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, the Kavli Institute of Cosmological
Physics at the University of Chicago, the Center for
Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State
University, the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics
and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, Financiadora
de Estudos e Projetos, Funda c~ao Carlos Chagas Filho de
Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho
Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient co e Tecnol ogico
and the Minist erio da Ci^encia, Tecnologia e Inovac~ao, the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Collaborating
Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey. The Collaborating
Institutions are Argonne National Laboratory, the University
of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Cambridge,
Centro de Investigaciones En ergeticas, Medioambientales
y Tecnol ogicas-Madrid, the University of Chicago,
University College London, the DES-Brazil Consortium,
the University of Edinburgh, the Eidgen ossische Technische
Hochschule (ETH) Z urich, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the
Institut de Ci encies de l'Espai (IEEC/CSIC), the Institut de
F sica d'Altes Energies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
the Ludwig-Maximilians Universit at M unchen and
the associated Excellence Cluster Universe, the University
of Michigan, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory,
the University of Nottingham, the Ohio State University, the
OzDES Membership Consortium the University of Pennsylvania,
the University of Portsmouth, SLAC National Accelerator
Laboratory, Stanford University, the University of
Sussex, and Texas A&M University. Based on observations
at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical
Astronomy Observatory which is operated by the Association
of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)
under a cooperative agreement with the National Science
Foundation.
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