FIRST RESULTS FROM THE CATALINA REAL-TIME TRANSIENT SURVEY
FIRST RESULTS FROM THE CATALINA REAL-TIME TRANSIENT SURVEY
We report on the results from the first six months of the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey (CRTS). In order to search for optical transients (OTs) with timescales of minutes to years, the CRTS analyses data from the Catalina Sky Survey which repeatedly covers 26,000 of square degrees on the sky. …