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

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astro-ph.IM2023

: A Multi-input Convolutional Neural Network to Automate and Expedite Bright Transient Identification for the Zwicky Transient Facility

Nabeel Rehemtulla, Adam A. Miller, Michael W. Coughlin +1

The Bright Transient Survey (BTS) relies on visual inspection ("scanning") to select sources for accomplishing its mission of spectroscopically classifying all bright extragalactic…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 3 cited

From Data to Software to Science with the Rubin Observatory LSST

Katelyn Breivik, Andrew J. Connolly, K. E. Saavik Ford +97

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) dataset will dramatically alter our understanding of the Universe, from the origins of the Solar System to the…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 24 cited

SNIascore: Deep Learning Classification of Low-Resolution Supernova Spectra

Christoffer Fremling, Xander J. Hall, Michael W. Coughlin +18

We present SNIascore, a deep-learning based method for spectroscopic classification of thermonuclear supernovae (SNe Ia) based on very low-resolution (R ) data. The goal o…

astro-ph.IM2019

Algorithms and Statistical Models for Scientific Discovery in the Petabyte Era

Brian Nord, Andrew J. Connolly, Jamie Kinney +35

The field of astronomy has arrived at a turning point in terms of size and complexity of both datasets and scientific collaboration. Commensurately, algorithms and statistical mode…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 850 cited

The Zwicky Transient Facility: Science Objectives

Matthew J. Graham, S. R. Kulkarni, Eric C. Bellm +114

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public-private enterprise, is a new time domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope with a 47 deg$^2…

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…