Eran O. Ofek
Weizmann Institute of Science
527 Papers
11.7K Citations
Eran O. Ofek is an academic researcher from Weizmann Institute of Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supernova & Galaxy. The author has an hindex of 101, co-authored 495 publications. Previous affiliations of Eran O. Ofek include Tel Aviv University & California Institute of Technology.
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Papers
Detectability of Oort cloud objects using Kepler
Eran O. Ofek,Ehud Nakar +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the potential of space missions like Kepler and CoRoT, designed to discover transiting exo-planets, to detect Oort Cloud, Kuiper Belt and main belt objects by occultations of background stars.
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GRB 070201: A possible Soft Gamma Ray Repeater in M31
Eran O. Ofek,Michael P. Muno,Robert Quimby,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Holger Stiele,Wolfgang Pietsch,Ehud Nakar,Avishay Gal-Yam,Arne Rau,P. B. Cameron,Stephen Bradley Cenko,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Derek B. Fox,Poonam Chandra,Poonam Chandra,Albert K. H. Kong,Albert K. H. Kong,Robin Barnard +17 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the possibility of detecting extragalactic SGRs/AXPs by identifying their periodic X-ray light curves, using 50 ks (2 Ms) XMM-Newton exposures.
Strong NIR emission following the long duration GRB 211211A: Dust heating as an alternative to a kilonova
Eli Waxman,Eran O. Ofek,Doron Kushnir +2 more
- 21 Jun 2022
TL;DR: In this article , the authors show that the NIR flux is consistent with thermal emission from dust, heated by UV and soft X-ray radiation produced by the interaction of the GRB jet plasma with the CSM.
Wide-field dynamic astronomy in the near-infrared with Palomar Gattini-IR and DREAMS
J. Soon,David Adams,Kaushik De,Antony Galla,M. Hankins,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Anna M. Moore,Scott M. Adams,Jarek Antoszewski,Michael C. B. Ashley,A. Babul,Joss Bland-Hawthorn,Jeff Cooke,Orsola De Marco,Alexandre Delacroix,Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix,Simon Ellis,Kenneth C. Freeman,David Hale,Alexander Heger,Jacob E. Jencson,R. M. Lau,Daniel L. McKenna,Eran O. Ofek,Stuart D. Ryder,Robert A. Simcoe,Jennifer L. Sokoloski,Roberto Soria,Roger Smith,Tony Travouillon +29 more
- 03 Jan 2020
TL;DR: The Palomar Gattini-IR and the Dynamic REd All-sky Monitoring Survey (DREAMS) as discussed by the authors is a wide-field near-infrared fully automated surveyor that uses an Indium Galium Arsenide (InGaAs) detector.
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Be Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 6830
Po-Chieh Yu,Po-Chieh Yu,Chien-Cheng Lin,Chien-Cheng Lin,Hsing Wen Lin,Chien De Lee,Nick P. Konidaris,Chow-Choong Ngeow,Wing-Huen Ip,Wen Ping Chen,Hui Chen Chen,Matthew A. Malkan,Chan-Kao Chang,Russ R. Laher,L.-C. Huang,Yu Chi Cheng,Rick Edelson,Andreas Ritter,Andreas Ritter,Robert M. Quimby,Sagi Ben-Ami,Eran O. Ofek,Jason Surace,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni +23 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported the discovery of two new Be stars and re-identification of one known Be star in the open cluster NGC 6830 using the Palomar Transient Factory Survey.