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most citedThe Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results

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astro-ph.EP2019★ 4 cited

Comet 240P/NEAT is Stirring

Michael S. P. Kelley, Dennis Bodewits, Quanzhi Ye +13

Comets are primitive objects that formed in the protoplanetary disk, and have been largely preserved over the history of the Solar System. However, they are not pristine, and surfa…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 12 cited

Synthetic tracking using ZTF Long Dwell Datasets

Chengxing Zhai, Quanzhi Ye, Michael Shao +4

The Zwicky Transit Factory (ZTF) is a powerful time domain survey facility with a large field of view. We apply the synthetic tracking technique to integrate a ZTF's long-dwell dat…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 121 cited

The Natural History of 'Oumuamua

Oumuamua ISSI Team

The discovery of the first interstellar object passing through the Solar System, 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua), provoked intense and continuing interest from the scientific community and…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 24 cited

Asteroid (3200) Phaethon: colors, phase curve, limits on cometary activity and fragmentation

Maryam Tabeshian, Paul Wiegert, Quanzhi Ye +3

We report on a multi-observatory campaign to examine asteroid 3200 Phaethon during its December 2017 close approach to Earth, in order to improve our measurements of its fundamenta…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 23 cited

Towards Efficient Detection of Small Near-Earth Asteroids Using the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)

Quanzhi Ye, Frank J. Masci, Hsing Wen Lin +23

We describe ZStreak, a semi-real-time pipeline specialized in detecting small, fast-moving near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) that is currently operating on the data from the newly-commis…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 53 cited

DeepStreaks: identifying fast-moving objects in the Zwicky Transient Facility data with deep learning

Dmitry A. Duev, Ashish Mahabal, Quanzhi Ye +12

We present DeepStreaks, a convolutional-neural-network, deep-learning system designed to efficiently identify streaking fast-moving near-Earth objects that are detected in the data…