Robo-AO & Transients

Mansi M KasliwalOn behalf of the Palomar Transient Factory

May 20, 2010

Palomar Transient Factory

Robo-AO Meeting May 20, 2010

Palomar 60-inchPalomar 48-inch

Discovery Machine + Classification Engine

Tidal Disruption Flare or Supernova or AGN?

Robo-AO Meeting May 20, 2010

Ofek et al. 2007

PTF09fac

Supernova Environment

Robo-AO Meeting May 20, 2010

PTF09fsr

Kasliwal et al. 2010

Minute-scale Galactic transients?

Robo-AO Meeting May 20, 2010

Kasliwal et al. 2008

Stefanescu et al. 2009

Progenitor Identification

Robo-AO Meeting May 20, 2010

Smith et al. 2009