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astro-ph.SR2025

First Temperature Profile of a Stellar Flare using Differential Chromatic Refraction

Riley Clarke, Federica Bianco, James R. A. Davenport +5

We present the first derivation of a stellar flare temperature profile from single-band photometry. Stellar flare DWF030225.574-545707.45129 was detected in 2015 by the Dark Energy…

astro-ph.SR2021119 cited

A highly magnetised and rapidly rotating white dwarf as small as the Moon

Ilaria Caiazzo, Kevin B. Burdge, James Fuller +15

White dwarfs represent the last stage of evolution of stars with mass less than about eight times that of the Sun and, like other stars, are often found in binaries. If the orbital…

astro-ph.SR2021

Year 1 of the ZTF high-cadence Galactic Plane Survey: Strategy, goals, and early results on new single-mode hot subdwarf B-star pulsators

Thomas Kupfer, Thomas A. Prince, Jan van Roestel +18

We present the goals, strategy and first results of the high-cadence Galactic plane survey using the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). The goal of the survey is to unveil the Galact…

astro-ph.SR2020

Helium-rich Superluminous Supernovae From the Zwicky Transient Facility

Lin Yan, D. Perley, S. Schulze +39

Helium is expected to be present in the ejecta of some hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSN-I). However, so far only one event, PTF10hgi has been identified with He feature…

astro-ph.SR2019

Discovery of an intermediate-luminosity red transient in M51 and its likely dust-obscured, infrared-variable progenitor

Jacob E. Jencson, Scott M. Adams, Howard E. Bond +49

We present the discovery of an optical transient (OT) in Messier 51, designated M51 OT2019-1 (also ZTF19aadyppr, AT 2019abn, ATLAS19bzl), by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). Th…