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

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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★ 76 cited

Palomar Gattini-IR: Survey overview, data processing system, on-sky performance and first results

Kishalay De, Matthew J. Hankins, Mansi M. Kasliwal +24

(Abridged) Palomar Gattini-IR is a new wide-field, near-infrared robotic time domain survey operating at Palomar Observatory. Using a 30 cm telescope mounted with a H2RG detector,…

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.GA2019★ 48 cited

Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. VIII. Time Variability of Emission and Absorption in NGC 5548 Based on Modeling the Ultraviolet Spectrum

G. A. Kriss, G. De Rosa, J. Ely +164

We model the ultraviolet spectra of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC~5548 obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope during the 6-month reverberation-mapping campaign in 2014. Our model of t…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 73 cited

Missing Red Supergiants and Carbon Burning

Tuguldur Sukhbold, Scott Adams

Recent studies on direct imaging of Type II core-collapse supernova progenitors indicate a possible threshold around M, where red supergiants with…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 27 cited

Uncovering Red and Dusty Ultraluminous X-ray Sources with Spitzer

Ryan M. Lau, Marianne Heida, Dominic J. Walton +9

We present a mid-infrared (IR) sample study of nearby ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) using multi-epoch observations with the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on the Spitzer Space T…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 31 cited

Discovery of an intermediate-luminosity red transient in M51 and its likely dust-obscured, infrared-variable progenitor

Jacob E. Jencson, Scott M. Adams, Howard E. Bond +49

We present the discovery of an optical transient (OT) in Messier 51, designated M51 OT2019-1 (also ZTF19aadyppr, AT 2019abn, ATLAS19bzl), by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). Th…

astro-ph.HE2019

The Dynamic Infrared Sky

Mansi M. Kasliwal, Scott Adams, Igor Andreoni +16

Opening up the dynamic infrared sky for systematic time-domain exploration would yield many scientific advances. Multi-messenger pursuits such as localizing gravitational waves fro…

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★ 139 cited

Machine Learning for the Zwicky Transient Facility

Ashish Mahabal, Umaa Rebbapragada, Richard Walters +47

The Zwicky Transient Facility is a large optical survey in multiple filters producing hundreds of thousands of transient alerts per night. We describe here various machine learning…

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.HE2019★ 69 cited

ZTF 18aaqeasu (SN 2018byg): A Massive Helium-shell Double Detonation on a Sub-Chandrasekhar Mass White Dwarf

Kishalay De, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Abigail Polin +24

The detonation of a helium shell on a white dwarf has been proposed as a possible explosion triggering mechanism for Type Ia supernovae. Here, we report ZTF 18aaqeasu (SN 2018byg/A…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 23 cited

SPIRITS Catalog of Infrared Variables: Identification of Extremely Luminous Long Period Variables

V. R. Karambelkar, S. M. Adams, P. A. Whitelock +11

We present a catalog of 417 luminous infrared variable stars with periods exceeding 250 days. These were identified in 20 nearby galaxies by the ongoing SPIRITS survey with the Spi…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 67 cited

The SPIRITS sample of Luminous Infrared Transients: Uncovering Hidden Supernovae and Dusty Stellar Outbursts in Nearby Galaxies

Jacob E. Jencson, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Scott M. Adams +23

We present a systematic study of the most luminous ( [Vega magnitudes] brighter than ) infrared (IR) transients discovered by the SPitzer InfraRed Intensive T…