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

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17 papers

astro-ph.IM2021★ 8 cited

Inferring kilonova population properties with a hierarchical Bayesian framework I : Non-detection methodology and single-event analyses

Siddharth R. Mohite, Priyadarshini Rajkumar, Shreya Anand +17

We present : a hierarchical Bayesian framework to infer the intrinsic luminosity parameters of kilonovae (KNe) associated with gravitational-wave (GW) events, based…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 7 cited

HO Puppis: Not a Be Star but a Newly Confirmed IW And-Type Star

Chien-De Lee, Jia-Yu Ou, Po-Chieh Yu +19

HO Puppis (HO Pup) was considered as a Be-star candidate based on its gamma-Cassiopeiae-type light curve, but lacked spectroscopic confirmation. Using distance measured from Gaia D…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 29 cited

Multi-wavelength Observations of AT2019wey: a New Candidate Black Hole Low-mass X-ray Binary

Yuhan Yao, S. R. Kulkarni, Kevin B. Burdge +21

AT2019wey (SRGA J043520.9+552226, SRGE J043523.3+552234) is a transient first reported by the ATLAS optical survey in 2019 December. It rose to prominence upon detection, three mon…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 30 cited

AGN on the move: A search for off-nuclear AGN from recoiling SMBHs and ongoing galaxy mergers with the Zwicky Transient Facility

Charlotte Ward, Suvi Gezari, Sara Frederick +16

A supermassive black hole (SMBH) ejected from the potential well of its host galaxy via gravitational wave recoil carries important information about the mass ratio and spin alignm…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 118 cited

A systematic search of Zwicky Transient Facility data for ultracompact binary LISA-detectable gravitational-wave sources

Kevin B. Burdge, Thomas A. Prince, Jim Fuller +31

Using photometry collected with the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), we are conducting an ongoing survey for binary systems with short orbital periods ( with…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 19 cited

SN 2018ijp: the explosion of a stripped-envelope star within a dense H-rich shell?

L. Tartaglia, J. Sollerman, C. Barbarino +24

In this paper, we discuss the outcomes of the follow-up campaign of SN 2018ijp, discovered as part of the Zwicky Transient Facility survey for optical transients. Its first spectru…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 306 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.HE2020★ 21 cited

SN 2020bqj: a Type Ibn supernova with a long lasting peak plateau

E. C. Kool, E. Karamehmetoglu, J. Sollerman +31

Context: Type Ibn supernovae are a rare class of stripped envelope supernovae interacting with a helium-rich CSM. The majority of the SNe Ibn reported display a surprising homogene…

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★ 24 cited

Zwicky Transient Facility constraints on the optical emission from the nearby repeating FRB 180916.J0158+65

Igor Andreoni, Wenbin Lu, Roger M. Smith +16

The discovery rate of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is increasing dramatically thanks to new radio facilities. Meanwhile, wide-field instruments such as the 47 deg Zwicky Transient…

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★ 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.SR2019★ 154 cited

General relativistic orbital decay in a seven-minute-orbital-period eclipsing binary system

Kevin B. Burdge, Michael W. Coughlin, Jim Fuller +23

General relativity predicts that short orbital period binaries emit significant gravitational radiation, and the upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to d…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 47 cited

A new class of pulsating hot subdwarfs

Thomas Kupfer, Evan B. Bauer, Kevin B. Burdge +22

Using high-cadence observations from the Zwicky Transient Facility at low Galactic latitudes, we have discovered a new class of pulsating, hot, compact stars. We have found four ca…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 850 cited

The Zwicky Transient Facility: Science Objectives

Matthew J. Graham, S. R. Kulkarni, Eric C. Bellm +114

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public-private enterprise, is a new time domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope with a 47 deg$^2…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 2.1k cited

The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results

Eric C. Bellm, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Matthew J. Graham +112

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new optical time-domain survey that uses the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope. A custom-built wide-field camera provides a 47 deg fiel…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 244 cited

The Keck Cosmic Web Imager Integral Field Spectrograph

Patrick Morrissey, Matuesz Matuszewski, D. Christopher Martin +36

We report on the design and performance of the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI), a general purpose optical integral field spectrograph that has been installed at the Nasmyth port of t…