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

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astro-ph.EP2019★ 51 cited

Pre-discovery Activity of New Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Beyond 5 AU

Quanzhi Ye, Michael S. P. Kelley, Bryce T. Bolin +15

Comet 2I/Borisov, the first unambiguous interstellar comet ever found, was discovered in August 2019 at au from the Sun on its inbound leg. No pre-discovery detection beyon…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 22 cited

Constraints on the Spin-Pole Orientation, Jet Morphology and Rotation of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov with Deep HST Imaging

Bryce T. Bolin, Carey M. Lisse

We present high resolution, deep imaging of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov taken with the Hubble Space Telescope/Wide Field Camera 3 (HST/WFC3) on 2019 December 8 UTC and 2020 Janua…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 41 cited

Characterization of the Nucleus, Morphology and Activity of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov by Optical and Near-Infrared GROWTH, Apache Point, IRTF, ZTF and Keck Observations

Bryce T. Bolin, Carey M. Lisse, Mansi M. Kasliwal +52

We present visible and near-infrared photometric and spectroscopic observations of interstellar object 2I/Borisov taken from 2019 September 10 to 2019 November 29 using the GROWTH,…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 2 cited

Maximizing LSST Solar System Science: Approaches, Software Tools, and Infrastructure Needs

Henry H. Hsieh, Michele T. Bannister, Bryce T. Bolin +12

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is expected to increase known small solar system object populations by an order of magnitude or more over the next decade, enabling a bro…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 30 cited

Earth's Minimoons: Opportunities for Science and Technology

Robert Jedicke, Bryce T. Bolin, William F. Bottke +5

(modified from published version) Twelve years ago the Catalina Sky Survey discovered Earth's first known natural geocentric object other than the Moon, a few-meter diameter astero…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 23 cited

Towards Efficient Detection of Small Near-Earth Asteroids Using the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)

Quanzhi Ye, Frank J. Masci, Hsing Wen Lin +23

We describe ZStreak, a semi-real-time pipeline specialized in detecting small, fast-moving near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) that is currently operating on the data from the newly-commis…