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

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astro-ph.HE2026

WFST Supernovae in the First Year: III. Systematical Study of the Photometric Behavior of Early-phase Core-collapse Supernovae

Junhan Zhao, Ji-an Jiang, Zelin Xu +22

We investigate the multiband photometric properties of seven supernovae (SNe) showing double-peaked light-curve evolution and prominent shock-cooling emission, observed by the Wide…

astro-ph.HE2026

WFST Supernovae in the First Year: II. SN 2024aedt: Systematical Study of a Transitional Type Ia Supernova

Dezheng Meng, Ji-an Jiang, Xu Kong +26

We present comprehensive photometric and spectroscopic observations of a transitional type Ia SN 2024aedt, discovered by the 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) within one…

astro-ph.GA2025

photoD with Rubin's Data Preview 1: first stellar photometric distances and deficit of faint blue stars. Stellar distances with Rubin's DP1

L. Palaversa, E. Donev, Ž. Ivezić +96

Aims: We investigate the utility of Rubin's Data Preview 1 for estimating stellar number density profile in the Milky Way halo. Methods: Stellar broad-band near-UV to near-IR $ugri…

astro-ph.IM2025

Variability-finding in Rubin Data Preview 1 with LSDB

Konstantin Malanchev, Melissa DeLucchi, Neven Caplar +56

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory recently released Data Preview 1 (DP1) in advance of the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which will enable boundless discoveries in t…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)

Colin Orion Chandler, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Mario Jurić +305

We report on the observation and measurement of astrometry, photometry, morphology, and activityof the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, also designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) with the NSF-…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Time Evolution of Mg II in SDSS J2320+0024: Implications for a Subparsec Binary Supermassive Black Hole System

Marta Fatović, Dragana Ilić, Andjelka B. Kovačević +8

Here we present results from our spectroscopic follow-up of SDSS J2320+0024, a candidate binary supermassive black hole (SMBH) with a suspected sub-pc separation, identified by a 2…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

The XXL survey LII : The evolution of radio AGN luminosity function determined via parametric methods from GMRT, ATCA, VLA and Cambridge interferometer observations

B. Šlaus, V. Smolcic, Ž. Ivezic +6

We model the evolution of active galactic nuclei by constructing their radio luminosity functions. We use a set of surveys of varying area and depth, namely the deep COSMOS survey…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 1 cited

LSST Narrowband Filters

Peter Yoachim, Melissa Graham, Steven Bet +5

In this white paper, we present the scientific cases for adding narrowband optical filters to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). LSST is currently planning to observe the…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 2.1k cited

The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results

Eric C. Bellm, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Matthew J. Graham +112

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new optical time-domain survey that uses the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope. A custom-built wide-field camera provides a 47 deg fiel…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 5 cited

An Overview of the LSST Image Processing Pipelines

James Bosch, Yusra AlSayyad, Robert Armstrong +31

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is an ambitious astronomical survey with a similarly ambitious Data Management component. Data Management for LSST includes processing on…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 11 cited

Solving the puzzle of discrepant quasar variability on monthly time-scales implied by SDSS and CRTS data sets

Krzysztof Suberlak, Željko Ivezić, Chelsea L. MacLeod +2

We present an improved photometric error analysis for the 7,100 CRTS (Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey) optical light curves for quasars from the SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey)…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 14 cited

Linear feature detection algorithm for astronomical surveys - II. Defocusing effects on meteor tracks

Dino Bektešević, Dejan Vinković, Andrew Rasmussen +1

Given the current limited knowledge of meteor plasma micro-physics and its interaction with the surrounding atmosphere and ionosphere, meteors are a highly interesting observationa…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 1 cited

New Organizations to Support Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics

Eric D. Feigelson, Željko Ivezić, Joseph Hilbe +1

In the past two years, the environment within which astronomers conduct their data analysis and management has rapidly changed. Working Groups associated with international societi…