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

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astro-ph.HE2026

First Pre-peak Ultraviolet Spectrum of a Tidal Disruption Event: A Fast Outflow Revealed Prior to Maximum Light in TDE2025aarm

Erica Hammerstein, Ryan Chornock, Jean Somalwar +32

The tidal disruption and eventual accretion of a star by a massive black hole can lead to the launching of outflows and winds that encode important information about the tidal disr…

astro-ph.HE2025

SN 2023uqf: An Interacting Supernova Coincident with a High-Energy Neutrino

Robert Stein, Anna Y. Q. Ho, Anjasha Gangopadhyay +30

Astrophysical high-energy (TeV-PeV) neutrinos were first discovered in 2013, but their origin remains largely unknown. Here we present SN 2023uqf, a supernova found in coincidence…

astro-ph.HE2025

Twin peaks: SN 2021uvy and SN 2022hgk in the landscape of double-peaked stripped envelope supernovae

Yashvi Sharma, Jesper Sollerman, William Meynardie +25

In recent years, a class of stripped-envelope supernovae (SESNe) showing two distinct light-curve peaks has emerged, where the first peak cannot be attributed to shock cooling emis…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

AT2019cmw: A highly luminous, cooling featureless TDE candidate from the disruption of a high mass star in an early-type galaxy

Jacob L. Wise, Daniel A. Perley, Nikhil Sarin +23

We present optical/UV photometric and spectroscopic observations, as well as X-ray and radio follow-up, of the extraordinary event AT2019cmw. With a peak bolometric luminosity 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.HE2024

Expanding the ultracompacts: gravitational wave-driven mass transfer in the shortest-period binaries with accretion disks

Joheen Chakraborty, Kevin B. Burdge, Saul A. Rappaport +35

We report the discovery of three ultracompact binary white dwarf systems hosting accretion disks, with orbital periods of 7.95, 8.68, and 13.15 minutes. This significantly augments…