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

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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.HE2025

Identification and photometric classification of extragalactic transients in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Data Preview 1

James Freeburn, Igor Andreoni, Kaylee M. de Soto +55

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will soon survey the southern sky, delivering a depth and sky coverage that is unprecedented in time domain astronomy. As part of commissioning, Data…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 34 cited

Cataclysmic Variables in the First Year of the Zwicky Transient Facility

Paula Szkody, Brooke Dicenzo, Anna Y. Q. Ho +25

Using selection criteria based on amplitude, time and color, we have identified 329 objects as known or candidate cataclysmic variable (CVs) during the first year of testing and op…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 81 cited

Evidence for Late-stage Eruptive Mass-loss in the Progenitor to SN2018gep, a Broad-lined Ic Supernova: Pre-explosion Emission and a Rapidly Rising Luminous Transient

Anna Y. Q. Ho, Daniel A. Goldstein, Steve Schulze +47

We present detailed observations of ZTF18abukavn (SN2018gep), discovered in high-cadence data from the Zwicky Transient Facility as a rapidly rising ( mag/hr) and lumino…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 115 cited

A New Class of Changing-Look LINERs

Sara Frederick, Suvi Gezari, Matthew J. Graham +28

We report the discovery of six active galactic nuclei (AGN) caught "turning on" during the first nine months of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey. The host galaxies were c…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 146 cited

The Zwicky Transient Facility Alert Distribution System

Maria T. Patterson, Eric C. Bellm, Ben Rusholme +7

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey generates real-time alerts for optical transients, variables, and moving objects discovered in its wide-field survey. We describe the ZTF…