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

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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.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.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.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…