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astro-ph.HE2025

ZTF25abjmnps (AT2025ulz) and S250818k: A Candidate Superkilonova from a Sub-threshold Sub-Solar Gravitational Wave Trigger

Mansi M. Kasliwal, Tomas Ahumada, Robert Stein +61

On August 18, 2025, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration reported gravitational waves from a sub-threshold binary neutron star merger. If astrophysical, this event would have a surpr…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

IIb or not IIb: A Catalog of ZTF Kilonova Imposters

Tyler Barna, Christoffer Fremling, Tomas Ahumada +12

Among the various classes of fast optical transients (FOTs), kilonovae (KNe), which can emerge as a result of neutron star mergers, are extremely challenging to observe because of…

astro-ph.HE2025

LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA neutron star merger candidate S250206dm: Zwicky Transient Facility observations

Tomás Ahumada, Shreya Anand, Mattia Bulla +49

We present the searches conducted with the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) in response to S250206dm, a bona fide event with a false alarm rate of one in 25 years, detected by the I…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

SN 2023xgo: Helium-rich Type Icn or Carbon-Flash Type Ibn supernova?

Anjasha Gangopadhyay, Jesper Sollerman, Konstantinos Tsalapatas +35

We present observations of SN~2023xgo, a transitional Type Ibn/Icn supernova, from to ~days relative to the -band peak. Early spectra show C~III emission rem…

astro-ph.HE2024

Searching for gravitational wave optical counterparts with the Zwicky Transient Facility: summary of O4a

Tomás Ahumada, Shreya Anand, Michael W. Coughlin +49

During the first half of the fourth observing run (O4a) of the International Gravitational Wave Network (IGWN), the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) conducted a systematic search fo…

astro-ph.HE2024

Joint gravitational wave-short GRB detection of Binary Neutron Star mergers with existing and future facilities

Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee, Smaranika Banerjee, Varun Bhalerao +6

We explore the joint detection prospects of short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) and their gravitational wave (GW) counterparts by the current and upcoming high-energy GRB and GW facilit…