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

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astro-ph.HE20208 cited

FRB131104 Swift BAT data revisited: No evidence of a gamma-ray counterpart

T. Sakamoto, E. Troja, A. Lien +4

We present a re-analysis of the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) data around the radio detection of FRB 131104. Possible evidence of a gamma-ray counterpart was presented by DeLau…

astro-ph.HE2020

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

GRB 160625B: Evidence for a Gaussian-Shaped Jet

Virginia Cunningham, S. Bradley Cenko, Geoffrey Ryan +9

We present multiwavelength modeling of the afterglow from the long gamma-ray burst GRB 160625B using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques of the afterglowpy Python package. G…

astro-ph.HE2020400 cited

Candidate Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Binary Black Hole Merger Gravitational Wave Event S190521g

M. J. Graham, K. E. S. Ford, B. McKernan +24

We report the first plausible optical electromagnetic (EM) counterpart to a (candidate) binary black hole (BBH) merger. Detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), the EM flar…

astro-ph.HE2020

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

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…