BINA 2023, Ethen Sun et al. : submitted pdf paper "SunPhot: Preparations for an upcoming quasar variability survey with the International Liquid Mirror Telescope"
[en] Recent research suggests a correlation between the variability and intrinsic brightness of quasars. This could lead to the use of quasars on the cosmic distance ladder, but this work is currently limited by lack of quasar light curve data. The new 4-metre International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT)'s nightly imaging could produce high quality light curves for thousands of faint quasars in its field. The Python photometric data pipeline SunPhot is under development at UBC to directly extract light curves from calibrated ILMT images using aperture photometry.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Sun, Ethen; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Ailawadhi, Bhavya; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, India ; Deen Dayal, Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India
Akhunov, Talat; National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan ; Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Borra, Ermanno; Laval University, Canada
Dubey, Monalisa; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, India ; Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, India
Dukiya, Naveen; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, India ; Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, India
Fu, Jiuyang; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Grewal, Baldeep; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Hickson, Paul; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Kumar, Brajesh; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, India
Misra, Kuntal; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, India
Negi, Vibhore; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, India ; Deen Dayal, Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India
Pranshu, Kumar; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, India ; University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
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