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

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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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

SN 2022joj: A Peculiar Type Ia Supernova Possibly Driven by an Asymmetric Helium-shell Double Detonation

Chang Liu, Adam A. Miller, Samuel J. Boos +28

We present observations of SN 2022joj, a peculiar Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). SN 2022joj exhibits an unusually red $g_\mathrm{ZTF}-…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

SRGeJ045359.9+622444: A 55-min Period Eclipsing AM CVn Discovered from a Joint SRG/eROSITA + ZTF Search

Antonio C. Rodriguez, Ilkham Galiullin, Marat Gilfanov +24

AM CVn systems are ultra-compact binaries where a white dwarf accretes from a helium-rich degenerate or semi-degenerate donor. Some AM CVn systems will be among the loudest sources…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

1100 days in the life of the supernova 2018ibb -- The best pair-instability supernova candidate, to date

Steve Schulze, Claes Fransson, Alexandra Kozyreva +63

Abridged - Stars with ZAMS masses between 140 and are thought to explode as pair-instability supernovae (PISNe). During their thermonuclear runaway, PISNe can produce…

astro-ph.HE2023

NuSTAR Observations of Candidate Subparsec Binary Supermassive Black Holes

M. Lynne Saade, Murray Brightman, Daniel Stern +12

We present analysis of NuSTAR X-ray observations of three AGN that were identified as candidate subparsec binary supermassive black hole (SMBH) systems in the Catalina Real-Time Tr…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

SN 2019odp: A Massive Oxygen-Rich Type Ib Supernova

T. Schweyer, J. Sollerman, A. Jerkstrand +18

We present and analyze observations of the Type Ib supernova (SN) 2019odp (a.k.a ZTF19abqwtfu) covering epochs within days of the explosion to the nebular phase at 360 d post-explo…