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A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole
Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Daniel A. Perley +78
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are bursts of electromagnetic energy released when supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies violently disrupt a star that passes t…
A radio-detected Type Ia supernova with helium-rich circumstellar material
Erik C. Kool, Joel Johansson, Jesper Sollerman +34
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thermonuclear explosions of degenerate white dwarf (WD) stars destabilized by mass accretion from a companion star, but the nature of their progenit…
Probing the low-mass end of core-collapse supernovae using a sample of strongly-stripped Calcium-rich Type IIb Supernovae from the Zwicky Transient Facility
Kaustav K. Das, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Christoffer Fremling +23
The fate of stars in the zero-age main-sequence (ZAMS) range Msun is unclear. They could evolve to form white dwarfs or explode as electron-capture supernovae (SNe)…
SN 2022oqm -- a Ca-rich explosion of a compact progenitor embedded in C/O circumstellar material
I. Irani, Ping Chen, Jonathan Morag +27
We present the discovery and analysis of SN\,2022oqm, a Type Ic supernova (SN) detected \,day after explosion. The SN rises to a blue and short-lived (2\,days) initial peak. Ea…
Zwicky Transient Facility and Globular Clusters: The Period-Luminosity and Period-Wesenheit Relations for Type II Cepheids
Chow-Choong Ngeow, Anupam Bhardwaj, Jing-Yi Henderson +5
We present the first gri-band period-luminosity (PL) and period-Wesenheit (PW) relations for 37 Type II Cepheids (hereafter TIIC) located in 18 globular clusters based on photometr…
A 62-minute orbital period black widow binary in a wide hierarchical triple
Kevin B. Burdge, Thomas R. Marsh, Jim Fuller +30
Over a dozen millisecond pulsars are ablating low-mass companions in close binary systems. In the original "black widow", the 8-hour orbital period eclipsing pulsar PSR J1959+2048…
SN2020qlb: A hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova with well-characterized light curve undulations
S. L. West, R. Lunnan, C. M. B. Omand +21
SN\,2020qlb (ZTF20abobpcb) is a hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) that is among the most luminous (maximum M mag) and that has one of the longest rise t…
The long-active afterglow of GRB 210204A: Detection of the most delayed flares in a Gamma-Ray Burst
Harsh Kumar, Rahul Gupta, Divita Saraogi +22
We present results from extensive broadband follow-up of GRB 210204A over the period of thirty days. We detect optical flares in the afterglow at 7.6 x 10^5 s and 1.1 x 10^6 s afte…
Zwicky Transient Facility and Globular Clusters: The RR Lyrae gri-Band Period-Luminosity-Metallicity and Period-Wesenheit-Metallicity Relations
Chow-Choong Ngeow, Anupam Bhardwaj, Richard Dekany +7
Based on time-series observations collected from Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), we derived period-luminosity-metallicity (PLZ) and period-Wesenheit-metallicity (PWZ) relations fo…
Neutrino follow-up with the Zwicky Transient Facility: Results from the first 24 campaigns
Robert Stein, Simeon Reusch, Anna Franckowiak +33
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) performs a systematic neutrino follow-up program, searching for optical counterparts to high-energy neutrinos with dedicated Target-of-Opportuni…
A Uniform Type Ia Supernova Distance Ladder with the Zwicky Transient Facility: Absolute Calibration Based on the Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB) Method
Suhail Dhawan, Ariel Goobar, Joel Johansson +21
The current Cepheid-calibrated distance ladder measurement of is reported to be in tension with the values inferred from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), assuming stand…
The Final Season Reimagined: 30 Tidal Disruption Events from the ZTF-I Survey
Erica Hammerstein, Sjoert van Velzen, Suvi Gezari +30
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) offer a unique way to study dormant black holes. While the number of observed TDEs has grown thanks to the emergence of wide-field surveys in the pas…
Impact of the SpaceX Starlink Satellites on the Zwicky Transient Facility Survey Observations
Przemek Mroz, Angel Otarola, Thomas A. Prince +6
There is a growing concern about an impact of low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations on ground-based astronomical observations, in particular, on wide-field surveys in the…
60 Microlensing Events from the Three Years of Zwicky Transient Facility Phase One
Michael S. Medford, Natasha S. Abrams, Jessica R. Lu +2
Microlensing events have historically been discovered throughout the Galactic bulge and plane by surveys designed solely for that purpose. We conduct the first multi-year search fo…