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

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41 papers

cs.CE2025

From Text to Alpha: Can LLMs Track Evolving Signals in Corporate Disclosures?

Chanyeol Choi, Yoon Kim, Yu Yu +10

Natural language processing (NLP) has been widely used in quantitative finance, but traditional methods often struggle to capture rich narratives in corporate disclosures, leaving…

astro-ph.EP2021

Characterizing Sparse Asteroid Light Curves with Gaussian Processes

Christina Willecke Lindberg, Daniela Huppenkothen, R. Lynne Jones +11

In the era of wide-field surveys like the Zwicky Transient Facility and the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time, sparse photometric measurements constitute an incre…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 104 cited

Optical follow-up of the neutron star-black hole mergers S200105ae and S200115j

Shreya Anand, Michael W. Coughlin, Mansi M. Kasliwal +46

LIGO and Virgo's third observing run (O3) revealed the first neutron star-black hole (NSBH) merger candidates in gravitational waves. These events are predicted to synthesize r-pro…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 45 cited

Two stripped envelope supernovae with circumstellar interaction -- but only one really shows it

J. Sollerman, C. Fransson, C. Barbarino +23

We present SN 2019tsf (ZTF19ackjszs) and SN 2019oys (ZTF19abucwzt). These two stripped envelope Type Ib supernovae suddenly showed a (re-)brightening in their late light curves. We…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 48 cited

Constraining the Kilonova Rate with Zwicky Transient Facility Searches Independent of Gravitational Wave and Short Gamma-ray Burst Triggers

Igor Andreoni, Erik C. Kool, Ana Sagues Carracedo +34

The first binary neutron star merger, GW170817, was accompanied by a radioactivity-powered optical/infrared transient called a kilonova. To date, no compelling kilonova has been fo…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 34 cited

A non-equipartition shockwave traveling in a dense circumstellar environment around SN2020oi

Assaf Horesh, Itai Sfaradi, Mattias Ergon +34

We report the discovery and panchromatic followup observations of the young Type Ic supernova, SN2020oi, in M100, a grand design spiral galaxy at a mere distance of Mpc. We fo…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 102 cited

Kilonova Luminosity Function Constraints based on Zwicky Transient Facility Searches for 13 Neutron Star Mergers

Mansi M. Kasliwal, Shreya Anand, Tomas Ahumada +100

We present a systematic search for optical counterparts to 13 gravitational wave (GW) triggers involving at least one neutron star during LIGO/Virgo's third observing run. We searc…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 30 cited

Helium-rich Superluminous Supernovae From the Zwicky Transient Facility

Lin Yan, D. Perley, S. Schulze +39

Helium is expected to be present in the ejecta of some hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSN-I). However, so far only one event, PTF10hgi has been identified with He feature…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 44 cited

ZTF20aajnksq (AT2020blt): A Fast Optical Transient at With No Detected Gamma-Ray Burst Counterpart

Anna Y. Q. Ho, Daniel A. Perley, Paz Beniamini +27

We present ZTF20aajnksq (AT2020blt), a fast-fading ( mag in days) red ( mag) and luminous () optical transient at discovered…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 62 cited

SN2019dge: a Helium-rich Ultra-Stripped Envelope Supernova

Yuhan Yao, Kishalay De, Mansi M. Kasliwal +28

We present observations of ZTF18abfcmjw (SN2019dge), a helium-rich supernova with a fast-evolving light curve indicating an extremely low ejecta mass () and l…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 50 cited

The Spectacular Ultraviolet Flash From the Peculiar Type Ia Supernova 2019yvq

A. A. Miller, M. R. Magee, A. Polin +42

Early observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa) provide essential clues for understanding the progenitor system that gave rise to the terminal thermonuclear explosion. We pres…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 252 cited

A tidal disruption event coincident with a high-energy neutrino

Robert Stein, Sjoert van Velzen, Marek Kowalski +55

Cosmic neutrinos provide a unique window into the otherwise-hidden mechanism of particle acceleration in astrophysical objects. A flux of high-energy neutrinos was discovered in 20…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 116 cited

The Zwicky Transient Facility Census of the Local Universe I: Systematic search for Calcium rich gap transients reveal three related spectroscopic sub-classes

Kishalay De, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Anastasios Tzanidakis +47

(Abridged) Using the Zwicky Transient Facility alert stream, we are conducting a large campaign to spectroscopically classify all transients occurring in galaxies in the Census of…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 128 cited

The Koala: A Fast Blue Optical Transient with Luminous Radio Emission from a Starburst Dwarf Galaxy at

Anna Y. Q. Ho, D. A. Perley, S. R. Kulkarni +25

We present ZTF18abvkwla (the "Koala"), a fast blue optical transient discovered in the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) One-Day Cadence (1DC) Survey. ZTF18abvkwla has a number of fe…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 34 cited

Cataclysmic Variables in the First Year of the Zwicky Transient Facility

Paula Szkody, Brooke Dicenzo, Anna Y. Q. Ho +25

Using selection criteria based on amplitude, time and color, we have identified 329 objects as known or candidate cataclysmic variable (CVs) during the first year of testing and op…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 375 cited

Seventeen Tidal Disruption Events from the First Half of ZTF Survey Observations: Entering a New Era of Population Studies

Sjoert van Velzen, Suvi Gezari, Erica Hammerstein +34

While tidal disruption events (TDEs) have long been heralded as laboratories for the study of quiescent black holes, the small number of known TDEs and uncertainties in their emiss…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 40 cited

ZTF Early Observations of Type Ia Supernovae III: Early-Time Colors as a Test for Explosion Models and Multiple Populations

Mattia Bulla, Adam A. Miller, Yuhan Yao +22

Colors of Type Ia supernovae in the first few days after explosion provide a potential discriminant between different models. In this paper, we present colors of 65 Type Ia s…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 17 cited

The Broad-lined Ic Supernova ZTF18aaqjovh (SN 2018bvw): An Optically-discovered Engine-driven Supernova Candidate with Luminous Radio Emission

Anna Y. Q. Ho, Alessandra Corsi, S. Bradley Cenko +23

We present ZTF18aaqjovh (SN 2018bvw), a high-velocity ("broad-lined") stripped-envelope (Type Ic) supernova (Ic-BL SN) discovered in the Zwicky Transient Facility one-day cadence s…

astro-ph.IM2019

Algorithms and Statistical Models for Scientific Discovery in the Petabyte Era

Brian Nord, Andrew J. Connolly, Jamie Kinney +35

The field of astronomy has arrived at a turning point in terms of size and complexity of both datasets and scientific collaboration. Commensurately, algorithms and statistical mode…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 9 cited

The Zwicky Transient Facility Bright Transient Survey I: Spectroscopic Classification and the Redshift Completeness of Local Galaxy Catalogs

U. C. Fremling, A. A. Miller, Y. Sharma +37

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is performing a three-day cadence survey of the visible Northern sky (~3). The transient candidates found in this survey are announced via pu…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 109 cited

GROWTH on S190814bv: Deep Synoptic Limits on the Optical/Near-Infrared Counterpart to a Neutron Star-Black Hole Merger

Igor Andreoni, Daniel A. Goldstein, Mansi M. Kasliwal +49

On 2019 August 14, the Advanced LIGO and Virgo interferometers detected the high-significance gravitational wave (GW) signal S190814bv. The GW data indicated that the event resulte…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 32 cited

Four (Super)luminous Supernovae from the First Months of the ZTF Survey

R. Lunnan, Lin Yan, D. A. Perley +30

We present photometry and spectroscopy of four hydrogen-poor luminous supernovae discovered during the two-month science commissioning and early operations of the Zwicky Transient…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 39 cited

GROWTH on S190510g: DECam Observation Planning and Follow-Up of a Distant Binary Neutron Star Merger Candidate

Igor Andreoni, Daniel A. Goldstein, Shreya Anand +23

The first two months of the third Advanced LIGO and Virgo observing run (2019 April-May) showed that distant gravitational wave (GW) events can now be readily detected. Three candi…

astro-ph.IM2019

Astro2020 APC White Paper: Elevating the Role of Software as a Product of the Research Enterprise

Arfon M. Smith, Dara Norman, Kelle Cruz +42

Software is a critical part of modern research, and yet there are insufficient mechanisms in the scholarly ecosystem to acknowledge, cite, and measure the impact of research softwa…