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20152026
most citedThe Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results

2.1k citations · 9.3k across the 126 of their papers we have counts for

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127 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

The shell around VY Canis Majoris in SPHEREx is likely an artifact

Viraj Karambelkar, Yashvi Sharma, Kishalay De

Recently, the presence of a large shell around the bright hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris was reported in images from the SPHEREx mission. We report similar shells around other br…

astro-ph.SR2026

Now you see me, now you don't: Deep, long-lived obscuration events of white dwarfs by dust and debris from disintegrating planetesimals

J. van Roestel, S. Bhattacharjee, J. A. Guidry +22

Transiting dust and debris around white dwarfs provide a direct view of planetary disruption. We report six previously non-variable white dwarfs that underwent single, deep obscura…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 10 cited

Revealing a main-sequence star that consumed a planet with JWST

Ryan M. Lau, Jacob E. Jencson, Colette Salyk +8

The subluminous red nova (SLRN) ZTF SLRN-2020 is the most compelling direct detection of a planet being consumed by its host star, a scenario known as a planetary engulfment event.…

astro-ph.IM2025

Cryoscope: A Cryogenic Infrared Survey Telescope in Antarctica

Mansi M. Kasliwal, Nicholas Earley, Roger Smith +58

We present Cryoscope--a new 50 deg field-of-view, 1.2 m aperture, survey telescope to be located at Dome C, Antarctica. Cryoscope has an innovative optical-thermal d…

astro-ph.HE2025

Low-Luminosity Type IIP Supernovae from the Zwicky Transient Facility Census of the Local Universe. I: Luminosity Function, Volumetric Rate

Kaustav K. Das, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Christoffer Fremling +51

We present the luminosity function and volumetric rate of a sample of Type IIP supernovae (SNe) from the Zwicky Transient Facility Census of the Local Universe survey (CLU). This i…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

Disappearance of a massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy due to formation of a black hole

Kishalay De, Morgan MacLeod, Jacob E. Jencson +11

When a massive star reaches the end of its lifetime, its core collapses and releases neutrinos that drive a shock into the outer layers (stellar envelope). A sufficiently strong sh…