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

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astro-ph.HE2022★ 96 cited

The prevalence and influence of circumstellar material around hydrogen-rich supernova progenitors

Rachel J. Bruch, Avishay Gal-Yam, Ofer Yaron +44

Narrow transient emission lines (flash-ionization features) in early supernova (SN) spectra trace the presence of circumstellar material (CSM) around the massive progenitor stars o…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 131 cited

A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole

Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Daniel A. Perley +78

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are bursts of electromagnetic energy released when supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies violently disrupt a star that passes t…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 41 cited

A radio-detected Type Ia supernova with helium-rich circumstellar material

Erik C. Kool, Joel Johansson, Jesper Sollerman +34

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thermonuclear explosions of degenerate white dwarf (WD) stars destabilized by mass accretion from a companion star, but the nature of their progenit…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 3 cited

SN 2022oqm -- a Ca-rich explosion of a compact progenitor embedded in C/O circumstellar material

I. Irani, Ping Chen, Jonathan Morag +27

We present the discovery and analysis of SN\,2022oqm, a Type Ic supernova (SN) detected \,day after explosion. The SN rises to a blue and short-lived (2\,days) initial peak. Ea…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 93 cited

A light in the dark: searching for electromagnetic counterparts to black hole-black hole mergers in LIGO/Virgo O3 with the Zwicky Transient Facility

Matthew J. Graham, Barry McKernan, K. E. Saavik Ford +11

The accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are promising locations for the merger of compact objects detected by gravitational wave (GW) observatories. Embedded within a b…

astro-ph.HE2022

SN 2020jgb: A Peculiar Type Ia Supernova Triggered by a Helium-Shell Detonation in a Star-Forming Galaxy

Chang Liu, Adam A. Miller, Abigail Polin +25

The detonation of a thin () helium shell (He-shell) atop a white dwarf (WD) is a promising mechanism to explain normal…