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

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astro-ph.HE2020104 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.IM2020306 cited

The Zwicky Transient Facility: Observing System

Richard Dekany, Roger M. Smith, Reed Riddle +23

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) Observing System (OS) is the data collector for the ZTF project to study astrophysical phenomena in the time domain. ZTF OS is based upon the 48…

astro-ph.SR202050 cited

A new class of Roche lobe-filling hot subdwarf binaries

Thomas Kupfer, Evan B. Bauer, Kevin B. Burdge +30

We present the discovery of the second binary with a Roche lobe-filling hot subdwarf transferring mass to a white dwarf (WD) companion. This 56 minute binary was discovered using d…

astro-ph.HE202062 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.HE2020128 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.HE2020

ZTF J1901+5309: A 40.6-Minute Orbital Period Eclipsing Double White Dwarf System

Michael W. Coughlin, Kevin Burdge, E. Sterl Phinney +17

The Zwicky Transient Facility has begun to discover binary systems with orbital periods that are less than 1\,hr. Combined with dedicated follow-up systems, which allow for high-ca…