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

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astro-ph.EP2020★ 26 cited

Initial Characterization of Active Transitioning Centaur, P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS), using Hubble, Spitzer, ZTF, Keck, APO and GROWTH Visible & Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy

Bryce T. Bolin, Yanga R. Fernandez, Carey M. Lisse +43

We present visible and mid-infrared imagery and photometry of temporary Jovian co-orbital comet P/2019 LD taken with HST/WFC3, Spitzer/IRAC, the GROWTH telescope network, visib…

astro-ph.EP2020

Characterization of Temporarily-Captured Minimoon 2020 CD by Keck Time-resolved Spectrophotometry

Bryce T. Bolin, Christoffer Fremling, Timothy R. Holt +42

We present time-resolved visible spectrophotometry of minimoon 2020 CD, the second asteroid known to become temporarily captured by the Earth-Moon system's gravitational field.…

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★ 48 cited

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★ 44 cited

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★ 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…