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

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astro-ph.HE2019★ 31 cited

The luminous and rapidly evolving SN 2018bcc: Clues toward the origin of Type Ibn SNe from the Zwicky Transient Facility

E. Karamehmetoglu, C. Fransson, J. Sollerman +20

Supernovae (SNe) Type Ibn are rapidly evolving and bright (M ) transients interacting with He-rich circumstellar material (CSM). SN 2018bcc, detected by th…

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.HE2019★ 53 cited

The long-lived Type IIn SN 2015da: Infrared echoes and strong interaction within an extended massive shell

L. Tartaglia, A. Pastorello, J. Sollerman +41

In this paper we report the results of the first four years of spectroscopic and photometric monitoring of the Type IIn supernova SN 2015da (also known as PSN J13522411+39412…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 102 cited

Transient processing and analysis using : Alert Management, Photometry and Evaluation of Lightcurves

J. Nordin, V. Brinnel, J. van Santen +18

Both multi-messenger astronomy and new high-throughput wide-field surveys require flexible tools for the selection and analysis of astrophysical transients. We here introduce the A…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 148 cited

A Fully Automated Integral Field Spectrograph Pipeline for the SEDMachine: pysedm

M. Rigault, J. D. Neill, N. Blagorodnova +8

Current time domain facilities are discovering hundreds of new galactic and extra-galactic transients every week. Classifying the ever-increasing number of transients is challengin…

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★ 158 cited

The GROWTH Marshal: A Dynamic Science Portal for Time-Domain Astronomy

M. M. Kasliwal, C. Cannella, A. Bagdasaryan +9

We describe a dynamic science portal called the GROWTH Marshal that allows time-domain astronomers to define science programs, program filters to save sources from different discov…

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.IM2019★ 1.2k cited

The Zwicky Transient Facility: Data Processing, Products, and Archive

Frank J. Masci, Russ R. Laher, Ben Rusholme +46

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new robotic time-domain survey currently in progress using the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt Telescope. ZTF uses a 47 square degree field with a…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 21 cited

The Kitt Peak Electron Multiplying CCD demonstrator

Michael W. Coughlin, Richard G. Dekany, Dmitry A. Duev +10

The Kitt Peak Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) demonstrator is a new instrument that has been developed for use at the Kitt Peak National Observatory's 84-inch telescope. The EMCCD…