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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.IM2020★ 29 cited

The ZTF Source Classification Project: II. Periodicity and variability processing metrics

Michael W. Coughlin, Kevin Burdge, Dmitry A. Duev +22

The current generation of all-sky surveys is rapidly expanding our ability to study variable and transient sources. These surveys, with a variety of sensitivities, cadences, and fi…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 45 cited

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.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★ 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.SR2020★ 50 cited

A new class of Roche lobe-filling hot subdwarf binaries

Thomas Kupfer, Evan B. Bauer, Kevin B. Burdge +30

We present the discovery of the second binary with a Roche lobe-filling hot subdwarf transferring mass to a white dwarf (WD) companion. This 56 minute binary was discovered using d…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 400 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★ 34 cited

A non-equipartition shockwave traveling in a dense circumstellar environment around SN2020oi

Assaf Horesh, Itai Sfaradi, Mattias Ergon +34

We report the discovery and panchromatic followup observations of the young Type Ic supernova, SN2020oi, in M100, a grand design spiral galaxy at a mere distance of Mpc. We fo…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 3 cited

A Search for Extra-Tidal RR Lyrae in the Globular Cluster NGC 5024 and NGC 5053

Chow-Choong Ngeow, Justin Belecki, Rick Burruss +9

Recently, Kundu et al (2019) reported that the globular cluster NGC 5024 (M53) possesses five extra-tidal RR Lyrae. In fact, four of them were instead known members of a nearby glo…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 252 cited

A tidal disruption event coincident with a high-energy neutrino

Robert Stein, Sjoert van Velzen, Marek Kowalski +55

Cosmic neutrinos provide a unique window into the otherwise-hidden mechanism of particle acceleration in astrophysical objects. A flux of high-energy neutrinos was discovered in 20…