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

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astro-ph.HE2021

A population of heavily reddened, optically missed novae from Palomar Gattini-IR: Constraints on the Galactic nova rate

Kishalay De, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Matthew J. Hankins +25

The nova rate in the Milky Way remains largely uncertain, despite its vital importance in constraining models of Galactic chemical evolution as well as understanding progenitor cha…

astro-ph.HE2020

Constraining the Kilonova Rate with Zwicky Transient Facility Searches Independent of Gravitational Wave and Short Gamma-ray Burst Triggers

Igor Andreoni, Erik C. Kool, Ana Sagues Carracedo +34

The first binary neutron star merger, GW170817, was accompanied by a radioactivity-powered optical/infrared transient called a kilonova. To date, no compelling kilonova has been fo…

astro-ph.HE2020

ZTF20aajnksq (AT2020blt): A Fast Optical Transient at With No Detected Gamma-Ray Burst Counterpart

Anna Y. Q. Ho, Daniel A. Perley, Paz Beniamini +27

We present ZTF20aajnksq (AT2020blt), a fast-fading ( mag in days) red ( mag) and luminous () optical transient at discovered…

astro-ph.HE2020

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.HE2020

SN2020bvc: a Broad-lined Type Ic Supernova with a Double-peaked Optical Light Curve and a Luminous X-ray and Radio Counterpart

A. Y. Q. Ho, S. R. Kulkarni, D. A. Perley +34

We present optical, radio, and X-ray observations of SN2020bvc (=ASASSN20bs; ZTF20aalxlis), a nearby (; =114 Mpc) broad-lined (BL) Type Ic supernova (SN). Our observat…

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…