M. Catelan

Research interests

Publications

• Optimization of the Observing Cadence for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: A Pioneering Process of Community-focused Experimental Design

  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2021 · 10.3847/1538-4365/ac3e72

• Alert Classification for the ALeRCE Broker System: The Light Curve Classifier

  The Astronomical Journal · 2021 · 10.3847/1538-3881/abd5c1

• New VVV Survey Globular Cluster Candidates in the Milky Way Bulge*

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2017 · 10.3847/2041-8213/aa95b8

• Extinction Ratios in the Inner Galaxy as Revealed by the VVV Survey

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2017 · 10.3847/2041-8213/aa92c3

• The Catalina Surveys Southern periodic variable star catalogue

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2017 · 10.1093/mnras/stx1085

• THE CATALINA SURVEYS PERIODIC VARIABLE STAR CATALOG

  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/213/1/9

• Discovery of ∼9000 new RR Lyrae in the southern Catalina surveys

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2014 · 10.1093/mnras/stu2274

• Cataclysmic variables from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2014 · 10.1093/mnras/stu639

• PROBING THE OUTER GALACTIC HALO WITH RR LYRAE FROM THE CATALINA SURVEYS

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/763/1/32

• VVV Survey Near-infrared Photometry of Known Bulge RR Lyrae Stars: The Distance to the Galactic Center and Absence of a Barred Distribution of the Metal-poor Population

  Americanae (AECID Library) · 2013

• Neutrino and Axion Bounds from the Globular Cluster M5 (NGC 5904)

  Physical Review Letters · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.111.231301

• Helium enhanced stars and multiple populations along the horizontal branch of NGC 2808: direct spectroscopic measurements★

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2013 · 10.1093/mnras/stt1993

• VVV DR1 : the first data release of the Milky Way bulge and southern plane from the near-infrared ESO public survey VISTA variables in the Vía Láctea

  Americanae (AECID Library) · 2012

• UNCLOAKING GLOBULAR CLUSTERS IN THE INNER GALAXY

  The Astronomical Journal · 2012 · 10.1088/0004-6256/143/3/70

• New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey

  Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2011 · 10.1051/0004-6361/201116662

• THE DISCOVERY AND NATURE OF THE OPTICAL TRANSIENT CSS100217:102913+404220 $^,$

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2011 · 10.1088/0004-637x/735/2/106

• THE MASSES OF POPULATION II WHITE DWARFS

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2009 · 10.1088/0004-637x/705/1/408

• Updated Electron‐Conduction Opacities: The Impact on Low‐Mass Stellar Models

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1086/516819

• The peculiar horizontal branch morphology of the Galactic globular clusters NGC 6388 and NGC 6441: new insights from UV observations

  Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2007 · 10.1051/0004-6361:20077806

• The RR Lyrae Period‐Luminosity Relation. I. Theoretical Calibration

  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1086/422916

• Variable Stars in the Unusual, Metal-rich Globular Cluster NGC 6388

  The Astronomical Journal · 2002 · 10.1086/341381

• Horizontal‐Branch Models and the Second‐Parameter Effect. III. The Impact of Mass Loss on the Red Giant Branch and the Case of M5 and Palomar 4/Eridanus

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2000 · 10.1086/308506

• Hot Horizontal-Branch Stars: The Ubiquitous Nature of the "Jump" in Stromgren u, Low Gravities, and the Role of Radiative Levitation of Metals

  · 1999 · 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9903120

• The Second-Parameter Effect in Metal-rich Globular Clusters

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1998 · 10.1086/311443

• Bimodality and Gaps on Globular Cluster Horizontal Branches. II. The Cases of NGC 6229, NGC 1851, and NGC 2808

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1998 · 10.1086/305200

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