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The Zwicky Transient Facility: Data Processing, Products, and Archive by Masci, Frank J., Laher, Russ R., Rusholme, Ben, Shupe, David L., Groom, Steven, Surace, Jason, Jackson, Edward, Monkewitz, Serge, Beck, Ron, Flynn, David, Terek, Scott, Landry, Walter, Hacopians, Eugean, Desai, Vandana, Howell, Justin, Brooke, Tim, Imel, David, Wachter, Stefanie, Ye, Quan-Zhi, Lin, Hsing-Wen, Cenko, S. Bradley, Cunningham, Virginia, Rebbapragada, Umaa, Bue, Brian, Miller, Adam A., Mahabal, Ashish, Bellm, Eric C., Patterson, Maria T., Juri, Mario, Golkhou, V. Zach, Ofek, Eran O., Walters, Richard, Graham, Matthew, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Dekany, Richard G., Kupfer, Thomas, Burdge, Kevin, Cannella, Christopher B., Barlow, Tom, Sistine, Angela Van, Giomi, Matteo, Fremling, Christoffer, Blagorodnova, Nadejda, Levitan, David, Riddle, Reed, Smith, Roger M., Helou, George, Prince, Thomas A., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.

“…The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new robotic time-domain survey currently in progress using the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt Telescope. ZTF uses a 47 square…”
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General relativistic orbital decay in a seven-minute-orbital-period eclipsing binary system by Burdge, Kevin B., Coughlin, Michael W., Fuller, Jim, Kupfer, Thomas, Bellm, Eric C., Bildsten, Lars, Graham, Matthew J., Kaplan, David L., Roestel, Jan van, Dekany, Richard G., Duev, Dmitry A., Feeney, Michael, Giomi, Matteo, Helou, George, Kaye, Stephen, Laher, Russ R., Mahabal, Ashish A., Masci, Frank J., Riddle, Reed, Shupe, David L., Soumagnac, Maayane T., Smith, Roger M., Szkody, Paula, Walters, Richard, Kulkarni, S. R., Prince, Thomas A.

“…General relativity 1 predicts that short-orbital-period binaries emit considerable amounts of gravitational radiation. The upcoming Laser Interferometer Space…”
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A Systematic Search of Zwicky Transient Facility Data for Ultracompact Binary LISA-detectable Gravitational-wave Sources by Burdge, Kevin B., Prince, Thomas A., Fuller, Jim, Kaplan, David L., Marsh, Thomas R., Tremblay, Pier-Emmanuel, Zhuang, Zhuyun, Bellm, Eric C., Caiazzo, Ilaria, Coughlin, Michael W., Dhillon, Vik S., Gaensicke, Boris, Rodríguez-Gil, Pablo, Graham, Matthew J., Hermes, JJ, Kupfer, Thomas, Littlefair, S. P., Mróz, Przemek, Phinney, E. S., Roestel, Jan van, Yao, Yuhan, Dekany, Richard G., Drake, Andrew J., Duev, Dmitry A., Hale, David, Feeney, Michael, Helou, George, Kaye, Stephen, Mahabal, Ashish. A., Masci, Frank J., Riddle, Reed, Smith, Roger, Soumagnac, Maayane T., Kulkarni, S. R.

“…Abstract Using photometry collected with the Zwicky Transient Facility, we are conducting an ongoing survey for binary systems with short orbital periods (…”
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ROBOTIC LASER ADAPTIVE OPTICS IMAGING OF 715 KEPLER EXOPLANET CANDIDATES USING ROBO-AO by Law, Nicholas M, Morton, Tim, Baranec, Christoph, Riddle, Reed, Ravichandran, Ganesh, Ziegler, Carl, Johnson, John Asher, TENDULKAR, SHRIHARSH P, Bui, Khanh, Burse, Mahesh P, Das, H K, DEKANY, RICHARD G, Kulkarni, Shrinivas, PUNNADI, SUJIT, RAMAPRAKASH, A N

“…The Robo-AO Kepler Planetary Candidate Survey is observing every Kepler planet candidate host star with laser adaptive optics imaging to search for blended…”
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The Final Season Reimagined: 30 Tidal Disruption Events from the ZTF-I Survey by Hammerstein, Erica, van Velzen, Sjoert, Gezari, Suvi, Cenko, S. Bradley, Yao, Yuhan, Ward, Charlotte, Frederick, Sara, Villanueva, Natalia, Somalwar, Jean J., Graham, Matthew J., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Stern, Daniel, Andreoni, Igor, Bellm, Eric C., Dekany, Richard, Dhawan, Suhail, Drake, Andrew J., Fremling, Christoffer, Gatkine, Pradip, Groom, Steven L., Ho, Anna Y. Q., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Karambelkar, Viraj, Kool, Erik C., Masci, Frank J., Medford, Michael S., Perley, Daniel A., Purdum, Josiah, Roestel, Jan van, Sharma, Yashvi, Sollerman, Jesper, Taggart, Kirsty, Yan, Lin

“…Abstract Tidal disruption events (TDEs) offer a unique way to study dormant black holes. While the number of observed TDEs has grown thanks to the emergence of…”
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Seventeen Tidal Disruption Events from the First Half of ZTF Survey Observations: Entering a New Era of Population Studies by van Velzen, Sjoert, Gezari, Suvi, Hammerstein, Erica, Roth, Nathaniel, Frederick, Sara, Ward, Charlotte, Hung, Tiara, Cenko, S. Bradley, Stein, Robert, Perley, Daniel A., Taggart, Kirsty, Foley, Ryan J., Sollerman, Jesper, Blagorodnova, Nadejda, Andreoni, Igor, Bellm, Eric C., Brinnel, Valery, De, Kishalay, Dekany, Richard, Feeney, Michael, Fremling, Christoffer, Giomi, Matteo, Golkhou, V. Zach, Graham, Matthew J., Ho, Anna. Y. Q., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kilpatrick, Charles D., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Kupfer, Thomas, Laher, Russ R., Mahabal, Ashish, Masci, Frank J., Miller, Adam A., Nordin, Jakob, Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Ben, Santen, Jakob van, Sharma, Yashvi, Shupe, David L., Soumagnac, Maayane T.

“…While tidal disruption events (TDEs) have long been heralded as laboratories for the study of quiescent black holes, the small number of known TDEs and…”
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The Palomar Transient Factory: System Overview, Performance, and First Results by Law, Nicholas M., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Dekany, Richard G., Ofek, Eran O., Quimby, Robert M., Nugent, Peter E., Surace, Jason, Grillmair, Carl C., Bloom, Joshua S., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Bildsten, Lars, Brown, Tim, Cenko, S. Bradley, Ciardi, David, Croner, Ernest, Djorgovski, S. George, van Eyken, Julian, Filippenko, Alexei V., Fox, Derek B., Gal-Yam, Avishay, Hale, David, Hamam, Nouhad, Helou, George, Henning, John, Howell, D. Andrew, Jacobsen, Janet, Laher, Russ, Mattingly, Sean, McKenna, Dan, Pickles, Andrew, Poznanski, Dovi, Rahmer, Gustavo, Rau, Arne, Rosing, Wayne, Shara, Michael, Smith, Roger, Starr, Dan, Sullivan, Mark, Velur, Viswa, Walters, Richard, Zolkower, Jeff

“…The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is a fully-automated, wide-field survey aimed at a systematic exploration of the optical transient sky. The transient…”
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Palomar Gattini-IR: Survey Overview, Data Processing System, On-sky Performance and First Results by De, Kishalay, Hankins, Matthew J., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Moore, Anna M., Ofek, Eran O., Adams, Scott M., Ashley, Michael C. B., Babul, Aliya-Nur, Bagdasaryan, Ashot, Burdge, Kevin B., Burnham, Jill, Dekany, Richard G., Declacroix, Alexander, Galla, Antony, Greffe, Tim, Hale, David, Jencson, Jacob E., Lau, Ryan M., Mahabal, Ashish, McKenna, Daniel, Sharma, Manasi, Shopbell, Patrick L., Smith, Roger M., Soon, Jamie, Sokoloski, Jennifer, Soria, Roberto, Travouillon, Tony

“…Palomar Gattini-IR is a new wide-field, near-infrared (NIR) robotic time domain survey operating at Palomar Observatory. Using a 30 cm telescope mounted with a…”
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The Prevalence and Influence of Circumstellar Material around Hydrogen-rich Supernova Progenitors by Bruch, Rachel J., Gal-Yam, Avishay, Yaron, Ofer, Chen, Ping, Strotjohann, Nora L., Irani, Ido, Zimmerman, Erez, Schulze, Steve, Yang, Yi, Kim, Young-Lo, Bulla, Mattia, Sollerman, Jesper, Rigault, Mickael, Ofek, Eran, Soumagnac, Maayane, Masci, Frank J., Fremling, Christoffer, Perley, Daniel, Nordin, Jakob, Cenko, S. Bradley, Ho, Anna Y. Q., Adams, S., Adreoni, Igor, Bellm, Eric C., Blagorodnova, Nadia, Burdge, Kevin, De, Kishalay, Dekany, Richard G., Dhawan, Suhail, Drake, Andrew J., Duev, Dmitry A., Graham, Matthew, Graham, Melissa L., Jencson, Jacob, Karamehmetoglu, Emir, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kulkarni, Shrinivas, Miller, A. A., Neill, James D., Prince, Thomas A., Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Benjamin, Sharma, Y., Smith, Roger, Sravan, Niharika, Taggart, Kirsty, Walters, Richard, Yan, Lin

“…Abstract Narrow transient emission lines (flash-ionization features) in early supernova (SN) spectra trace the presence of circumstellar material (CSM) around…”
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The Zwicky Transient Facility Bright Transient Survey. II. A Public Statistical Sample for Exploring Supernova Demographics by Perley, Daniel A., Fremling, Christoffer, Sollerman, Jesper, Miller, Adam A., Dahiwale, Aishwarya S., Sharma, Yashvi, Bellm, Eric C., Biswas, Rahul, Brink, Thomas G., Bruch, Rachel J., De, Kishalay, Dekany, Richard, Drake, Andrew J., Duev, Dmitry A., Filippenko, Alexei V., Gal-Yam, Avishay, Goobar, Ariel, Graham, Matthew J., Graham, Melissa L., Ho, Anna Y. Q., Irani, Ido, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kim, Young-Lo, Kulkarni, S. R., Mahabal, Ashish, Masci, Frank J., Modak, Shaunak, Neill, James D., Nordin, Jakob, Riddle, Reed L., Soumagnac, Maayane T., Strotjohann, Nora L., Schulze, Steve, Taggart, Kirsty, Tzanidakis, Anastasios, Walters, Richard S., Yan, Lin

“…Abstract We present a public catalog of transients from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) Bright Transient Survey, a magnitude-limited ( m  < 19 mag in…”
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Machine Learning for the Zwicky Transient Facility by Mahabal, Ashish, Rebbapragada, Umaa, Walters, Richard, Masci, Frank J., Blagorodnova, Nadejda, Roestel, Jan van, Ye, Quan-Zhi, Biswas, Rahul, Burdge, Kevin, Chang, Chan-Kao, Duev, Dmitry A., Golkhou, V. Zach, Miller, Adam A., Nordin, Jakob, Ward, Charlotte, Adams, Scott, Bellm, Eric C., Branton, Doug, Bue, Brian, Cannella, Chris, Connolly, Andrew, Dekany, Richard, Feindt, Ulrich, Hung, Tiara, Fortson, Lucy, Frederick, Sara, Fremling, C., Gezari, Suvi, Graham, Matthew, Groom, Steven, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kulkarni, Shrinivas, Kupfer, Thomas, Lin, Hsing Wen, Lintott, Chris, Lunnan, Ragnhild, Parejko, John, Prince, Thomas A., Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Ben, Saunders, Nicholas, Sedaghat, Nima, Shupe, David L., Singer, Leo P., Soumagnac, Maayane T., Szkody, Paula, Tachibana, Yutaro, Tirumala, Kushal, Velzen, Sjoert van, Wright, Darryl

“…The Zwicky Transient Facility is a large optical survey in multiple filters producing hundreds of thousands of transient alerts per night. We describe here…”
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The First Tidal Disruption Flare in ZTF: From Photometric Selection to Multi-wavelength Characterization by van Velzen, Sjoert, Gezari, Suvi, Cenko, S. Bradley, Kara, Erin, Miller-Jones, James C. A., Hung, Tiara, Bright, Joe, Roth, Nathaniel, Blagorodnova, Nadejda, Huppenkothen, Daniela, Yan, Lin, Ofek, Eran, Sollerman, Jesper, Frederick, Sara, Ward, Charlotte, Graham, Matthew J., Fender, Rob, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Canella, Chris, Stein, Robert, Giomi, Matteo, Brinnel, Valery, Santen, Jakob van, Nordin, Jakob, Bellm, Eric C., Dekany, Richard, Fremling, Christoffer, Golkhou, V. Zach, Kupfer, Thomas, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Laher, Russ R., Mahabal, Ashish, Masci, Frank J., Miller, Adam A., Neill, James D., Riddle, Reed, Rigault, Mickael, Rusholme, Ben, Soumagnac, Maayane T., Tachibana, Yutaro

“…We present Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) observations of the tidal disruption flare AT2018zr/PS18kh reported by Holoien et al. and detected during ZTF…”
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The Type Icn SN 2021csp: Implications for the Origins of the Fastest Supernovae and the Fates of Wolf–Rayet Stars by Perley, Daniel A., Sollerman, Jesper, Schulze, Steve, Yao, Yuhan, Fremling, Christoffer, Gal-Yam, Avishay, Ho, Anna Y. Q., Yang, Yi, Kool, Erik C., Irani, Ido, Yan, Lin, Andreoni, Igor, Baade, Dietrich, Bellm, Eric C., Brink, Thomas G., Chen, Ting-Wan, Cikota, Aleksandar, Coughlin, Michael W., Dahiwale, Aishwarya, Dekany, Richard, Duev, Dmitry A., Filippenko, Alexei V., Hoeflich, Peter, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kulkarni, S. R., Lunnan, Ragnhild, Masci, Frank J., Maund, Justyn R., Medford, Michael S., Riddle, Reed, Rosnet, Philippe, Shupe, David L., Strotjohann, Nora Linn, Tzanidakis, Anastasios, Zheng, WeiKang

“…Abstract We present observations of SN 2021csp, the second example of a newly identified type of supernova (SN) hallmarked by strong, narrow, P Cygni carbon…”
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Tidal Disruption Event Demographics with the Zwicky Transient Facility: Volumetric Rates, Luminosity Function, and Implications for the Local Black Hole Mass Function by Yao, Yuhan, Ravi, Vikram, Gezari, Suvi, van Velzen, Sjoert, Lu, Wenbin, Schulze, Steve, Somalwar, Jean J., Kulkarni, S. R., Hammerstein, Erica, Nicholl, Matt, Graham, Matthew J., Perley, Daniel A., Cenko, S. Bradley, Stein, Robert, Ricarte, Angelo, Chadayammuri, Urmila, Quataert, Eliot, Bellm, Eric C., Bloom, Joshua S., Dekany, Richard, Drake, Andrew J., Groom, Steven L., Mahabal, Ashish A., Prince, Thomas A., Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Ben, Sharma, Yashvi, Sollerman, Jesper, Yan, Lin

“…Abstract We conduct a systematic tidal disruption event (TDE) demographics analysis using the largest sample of optically selected TDEs. A flux-limited,…”
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A Search for Extragalactic Fast Blue Optical Transients in ZTF and the Rate of AT2018cow-like Transients by Ho, Anna Y. Q., Perley, Daniel A., Gal-Yam, Avishay, Lunnan, Ragnhild, Sollerman, Jesper, Schulze, Steve, Das, Kaustav K., Dobie, Dougal, Yao, Yuhan, Fremling, Christoffer, Adams, Scott, Anand, Shreya, Andreoni, Igor, Bellm, Eric C., Bruch, Rachel J., Burdge, Kevin B., Castro-Tirado, Alberto J., Dahiwale, Aishwarya, De, Kishalay, Dekany, Richard, Drake, Andrew J., Duev, Dmitry A., Graham, Matthew J., Helou, George, Kaplan, David L., Karambelkar, Viraj, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kool, Erik C., Kulkarni, S. R., Mahabal, Ashish A., Medford, Michael S., Miller, A. A., Nordin, Jakob, Ofek, Eran, Petitpas, Glen, Riddle, Reed, Sharma, Yashvi, Smith, Roger, Stewart, Adam J., Taggart, Kirsty, Tartaglia, Leonardo, Tzanidakis, Anastasios, Winters, Jan Martin

“…Abstract We present a search for extragalactic fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) during Phase I of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). We identify 38…”
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PALM-3000: EXOPLANET ADAPTIVE OPTICS FOR THE 5 m HALE TELESCOPE by DEKANY, RICHARD, Roberts, Jennifer, Burruss, Rick, Bouchez, Antonin, Truong, Tuan, Baranec, Christoph, GUIWITS, STEPHEN, Hale, David, Angione, John, Trinh, Thang

“…We describe and report first results from PALM-3000, the second-generation astronomical adaptive optics (AO) facility for the 5.1 m Hale telescope at Palomar…”
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The First Ultracompact Roche Lobe-Filling Hot Subdwarf Binary by Kupfer, Thomas, Bauer, Evan B., Marsh, Thomas R., Roestel, Jan van, Bellm, Eric C., Burdge, Kevin B., Coughlin, Michael W., Fuller, Jim, Hermes, JJ, Bildsten, Lars, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Prince, Thomas A., Szkody, Paula, Dhillon, Vik S., Murawski, Gabriel, Burruss, Rick, Dekany, Richard, Delacroix, Alex, Drake, Andrew J., Duev, Dmitry A., Feeney, Michael, Graham, Matthew J., Kaplan, David L., Laher, Russ R., Littlefair, S. P., Masci, Frank J., Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Ben, Serabyn, Eugene, Smith, Roger M., Shupe, David L., Soumagnac, Maayane T.

“…We report the discovery of the first short-period binary in which a hot subdwarf star (sdOB) filled its Roche lobe and started mass transfer to its companion…”
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Evidence for Late-stage Eruptive Mass Loss in the Progenitor to SN2018gep, a Broad-lined Ic Supernova: Pre-explosion Emission and a Rapidly Rising Luminous Transient by Ho, Anna Y. Q., Goldstein, Daniel A., Schulze, Steve, Khatami, David K., Perley, Daniel A., Ergon, Mattias, Gal-Yam, Avishay, Corsi, Alessandra, Andreoni, Igor, Barbarino, Cristina, Bellm, Eric C., Blagorodnova, Nadia, Bright, Joe S., Burns, E., Cenko, S. Bradley, Cunningham, Virginia, De, Kishalay, Dekany, Richard, Dugas, Alison, Fender, Rob P., Fransson, Claes, Fremling, Christoffer, Goldstein, Adam, Graham, Matthew J., Hale, David, Horesh, Assaf, Hung, Tiara, Kasliwal, Mansi M., M. Kuin, N. Paul, Kulkarni, S. R., Kupfer, Thomas, Lunnan, Ragnhild, Masci, Frank J., Ngeow, Chow-Choong, Nugent, Peter E., Ofek, Eran O., Patterson, Maria T., Petitpas, Glen, Rusholme, Ben, Sai, Hanna, Sfaradi, Itai, Shupe, David L., Sollerman, Jesper, Soumagnac, Maayane T., Tachibana, Yutaro, Taddia, Francesco, Walters, Richard, Wang, Xiaofeng, Yao, Yuhan, Zhang, Xinhan

“…We present detailed observations of ZTF18abukavn (SN2018gep), discovered in high-cadence data from the Zwicky Transient Facility as a rapidly rising (1.4 0.1…”
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A Data Science Platform to Enable Time-domain Astronomy by Coughlin, Michael W., Bloom, Joshua S., Nir, Guy, Antier, Sarah, du Laz, Theophile Jegou, van der Walt, Stéfan, Crellin-Quick, Arien, Culino, Thomas, Duev, Dmitry A., Goldstein, Daniel A., Healy, Brian F., Karambelkar, Viraj, Lilleboe, Jada, Shin, Kyung Min, Singer, Leo P., Ahumada, Tomás, Anand, Shreya, Bellm, Eric C., Dekany, Richard, Graham, Matthew J., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kostadinova, Ivona, Kiendrebeogo, R. Weizmann, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Jenkins, Sydney, LeBaron, Natalie, Mahabal, Ashish A., Neill, James D., Parazin, B., Peloton, Julien, Perley, Daniel A., Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Ben, van Santen, Jakob, Sollerman, Jesper, Stein, Robert, Turpin, D., Wold, Avery, Amat, Carla, Bonnefon, Adrien, Bonnefoy, Adrien, Flament, Manon, Kerkow, Frank, Kishore, Sulekha, Jani, Shloke, Mahanty, Stephen K., Liu, Céline, Llinares, Laura, Makarison, Jolyane, Olliéric, Alix, Perez, Inès, Pont, Lydie, Sharma, Vyom

“…Abstract SkyPortal is an open-source software package designed to discover interesting transients efficiently, manage follow-up, perform characterization, and…”
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The Kitt Peak Electron Multiplying CCD demonstrator by Coughlin, Michael W, Dekany, Richard G, Duev, Dmitry A, Feeney, Michael, Kulkarni, S R, Riddle, Reed, Ahumada, Tomás, Burdge, Kevin, Dugas, Alison M, Fremling, Christoffer U, Hallinan, Gregg, Prince, Thomas A, van Roestel, Jan

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