W. S. Burgett

Physics and Astronomy · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae(111), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies(88), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research(83), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena(39), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena(37)

Publications217 total

The Giant Magellan Telescope project in 2024: status and look ahead
2024· 4 cited
The Giant Magellan Telescope Mount: final design completion and start of fabrication
2024· 1 cited
Erratum: “Changing-Look Quasar Candidates: First Results from Follow-up Spectroscopy of Highly Optically Variable Quasars” (2019, ApJ, 874, 8)
The Astrophysical Journal·2023Open Access
A Pan-STARRS 1 study of the relationship between wide binarity and planet occurrence in the Kepler field
UNC Libraries·2023Open Access
Wide cool and ultracool companions to nearby stars from pan-STARRS 1
UNC Libraries·2023Open Access
M DWARF ACTIVITY in the PAN-STARRS1 MEDIUM-DEEP SURVEY: FIRST CATALOG and ROTATION PERIODS
UNC Libraries·2023Open Access
LHS 2803B: A very wide mid-T dwarf companion to an old M dwarf identified from Pan-STARRS1
UNC Libraries·2023Open Access
The Giant Magellan Telescope Mount: the core of a next generation 25.4-m aperture ELT
Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IX·2022
Overview and status of the Giant Magellan Telescope project
Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IX·2022· 14 cited
Overview and status of the Giant Magellan Telescope project
2020· 31 cited
Pan-STARRS Pixel Processing: Detrending, Warping, Stacking
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series·2020· 156 citedOpen Access
VizieR Online Data Catalog: Follow-up spectroscopy of SDSS changing-look QSOs (Macleod+, 2019)
VizieR Online Data Catalog·2020
Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidates from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey
The Astrophysical Journal·2019· 94 citedOpen Access
PS1-13cbe: the rapid transition of a Seyfert 2 to a Seyfert 1
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2019· 10 citedOpen Access
Precision Distances to Dwarf Galaxies and Globular Clusters from Pan-STARRS1 3π RR Lyrae
The Astrophysical Journal·2019· 23 citedOpen Access
PS1-13cbe: The Rapid "Turn on" of a Seyfert 1
arXiv (Cornell University)·2018· 3 citedOpen Access
VizieR Online Data Catalog: Cepheids in M31 - PAndromeda Cepheid sample (Kodric+, 2018)
VizieR Online Data Catalog·2018
Cepheids in M31: The PAndromeda Cepheid Sample
The Astronomical Journal·2018· 25 citedOpen Access
Computational fluid dynamics modeling of GMT
2018· 12 cited
Overview and status of the Giant Magellan Telescope project
Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VII·2018· 27 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

J. Tonry(45), K. C. Chambers(45), E. A. Magnier(43), N. Kaiser(40), R. J. Wainscoat(38), P. A. Price(36), K. W. Hodapp(33), C. Waters(30), H. Flewelling(27), N. Metcalfe(25), M. E. Huber(24), S. J. Smartt(22), A. Rest(21), P. W. Draper(19), R. Chornock(18), R. J. Foley(17), K. Smith(17), James P. Morgan(17), Edward F. Schlafly(16), C. W. Stubbs(16)