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

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astro-ph.GA2020★ 30 cited

AGN on the move: A search for off-nuclear AGN from recoiling SMBHs and ongoing galaxy mergers with the Zwicky Transient Facility

Charlotte Ward, Suvi Gezari, Sara Frederick +16

A supermassive black hole (SMBH) ejected from the potential well of its host galaxy via gravitational wave recoil carries important information about the mass ratio and spin alignm…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 88 cited

TDE Hosts are Green and Centrally Concentrated: Signatures of a Post-Merger System

Erica Hammerstein, Suvi Gezari, Sjoert van Velzen +17

We study the properties of the galaxies hosting the first 19 tidal disruption events (TDEs) detected with the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) within the context of a carefully cons…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 74 cited

A Family Tree of Optical Transients from Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies

Sara Frederick, Suvi Gezari, Matthew J. Graham +17

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has discovered five new events belonging to an emerging class of AGN undergoing smooth flares with large amplitudes and rapid rise times. This s…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 122 cited

Bright, months-long stellar outbursts announce the explosion of interaction-powered supernovae

Nora L. Strotjohann, Eran O. Ofek, Avishay Gal-Yam +53

Interaction-powered supernovae (SNe) explode within an optically-thick circumstellar medium (CSM) that could be ejected during eruptive events. To identify and characterize such pr…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 19 cited

SN 2018ijp: the explosion of a stripped-envelope star within a dense H-rich shell?

L. Tartaglia, J. Sollerman, C. Barbarino +24

In this paper, we discuss the outcomes of the follow-up campaign of SN 2018ijp, discovered as part of the Zwicky Transient Facility survey for optical transients. Its first spectru…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 102 cited

Kilonova Luminosity Function Constraints based on Zwicky Transient Facility Searches for 13 Neutron Star Mergers

Mansi M. Kasliwal, Shreya Anand, Tomas Ahumada +100

We present a systematic search for optical counterparts to 13 gravitational wave (GW) triggers involving at least one neutron star during LIGO/Virgo's third observing run. We searc…