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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 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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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 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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Orbital Decay in an Accreting and Eclipsing 13.7 Minute Orbital Period Binary with a Luminous Donor by Burdge, Kevin B., El-Badry, Kareem, Rappaport, Saul, Sunny Wong, Tin Long, Bauer, Evan B., Bildsten, Lars, Caiazzo, Ilaria, Chakrabarty, Deepto, Chickles, Emma, Graham, Matthew J., Kara, Erin, Kulkarni, S. R., Marsh, Thomas R., Nynka, Melania, Prince, Thomas A., Simcoe, Robert A., van Roestel, Jan, Vanderbosch, Zach, Bellm, Eric C., Dekany, Richard G., Drake, Andrew J., Helou, George, Masci, Frank J., Milburn, Jennifer, Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Ben, Smith, Roger

“…Abstract We report the discovery of ZTF J0127+5258, a compact mass-transferring binary with an orbital period of 13.7 minutes. The system contains a white…”
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The SED Machine: A Robotic Spectrograph for Fast Transient Classification by Blagorodnova, Nadejda, Neill, James D., Walters, Richard, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Fremling, Christoffer, Ben-Ami, Sagi, Dekany, Richard G., Fucik, Jason R., Konidaris, Nick, Nash, Reston, Ngeow, Chow-Choong, Ofek, Eran O., Sullivan, Donal O', Quimby, Robert, Ritter, Andreas, Vyhmeister, Karl E.

“…Current time domain facilities are finding several hundreds of transient astronomical events a year. The discovery rate is expected to increase in the future…”
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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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A SURVEY OF THE HIGH ORDER MULTIPLICITY OF NEARBY SOLAR-TYPE BINARY STARS WITH Robo-AO by Riddle, Reed L, Tokovinin, Andrei, Mason, Brian D, Hartkopf, William I, Roberts, Lewis C, Baranec, Christoph, Law, Nicholas M, Bui, Khanh, Burse, Mahesh P, Das, H K, Dekany, Richard G, Kulkarni, Shrinivas, Punnadi, Sujit, Ramaprakash, A N, Tendulkar, Shriharsh P

“…We conducted a survey of nearby binary systems composed of main sequence stars of spectral types F and Gin order to improve our understanding of the…”
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Establishing accretion flares from supermassive black holes as a source of high-energy neutrinos by van Velzen, Sjoert, Stein, Robert, Gilfanov, Marat, Kowalski, Marek, Hayasaki, Kimitake, Reusch, Simeon, Yao, Yuhan, Garrappa, Simone, Franckowiak, Anna, Gezari, Suvi, Nordin, Jakob, Fremling, Christoffer, Sharma, Yashvi, Yan, Lin, Kool, Erik C, Stern, Daniel, Veres, Patrik M, Sollerman, Jesper, Medvedev, Pavel, Sunyaev, Rashid, Bellm, Eric C, Dekany, Richard G, Duev, Dimitri A, Graham, Matthew J, Kasliwal, Mansi M, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R, Laher, Russ R, Riddle, Reed L, Rusholme, Ben

“…ABSTRACT The origin of cosmic high-energy neutrinos remains largely unexplained. For high-energy neutrino alerts from IceCube, a coincidence with time-variable…”
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ZTF J1901+5309: a 40.6-min orbital period eclipsing double white dwarf system by Coughlin, Michael W, Burdge, Kevin, Sterl Phinney, E, van Roestel, Jan, Bellm, Eric C, Dekany, Richard G, Delacroix, Alexandre, Duev, Dmitry A, Feeney, Michael, Graham, Matthew J, Kulkarni, S R, Kupfer, Thomas, Laher, Russ R, Masci, Frank J, Prince, Thomas A, Riddle, Reed, Rosnet, Philippe, Smith, Roger, Serabyn, Eugene, Walters, Richard

“…ABSTRACT The Zwicky Transient Facility has begun to discover binary systems with orbital periods that are less than 1 h. Combined with dedicated follow-up…”
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A dense 0.1-solar-mass star in a 51-minute-orbital-period eclipsing binary by Burdge, Kevin B., El-Badry, Kareem, Marsh, Thomas R., Rappaport, Saul, Brown, Warren R., Caiazzo, Ilaria, Chakrabarty, Deepto, Dhillon, V. S., Fuller, Jim, Gänsicke, Boris T., Graham, Matthew J., Kara, Erin, Kulkarni, S. R., Littlefair, S. P., Mróz, Przemek, Rodríguez-Gil, Pablo, Roestel, Jan van, Simcoe, Robert A., Bellm, Eric C., Drake, Andrew J., Dekany, Richard G., Groom, Steven L., Laher, Russ R., Masci, Frank J., Riddle, Reed, Smith, Roger M., Prince, Thomas A.

“…Of more than a thousand known cataclysmic variables (CVs), where a white dwarf is accreting from a hydrogen-rich star, only a dozen have orbital periods below…”
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2900 Square Degree Search for the Optical Counterpart of Short Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 180523B with the Zwicky Transient Facility by Coughlin, Michael W., Ahumada, Tomás, Cenko, S. Bradley, Cunningham, Virginia, Ghosh, Shaon, Singer, Leo P., Bellm, Eric C., Burns, Eric, De, Kishalay, Goldstein, Adam, Golkhou, V. Zach, Kaplan, David L., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Perley, Daniel A., Sollerman, Jesper, Bagdasaryan, Ashot, Dekany, Richard G., Duev, Dmitry A., Feeney, Michael, Graham, Matthew J., Hale, David, Kulkarni, Shri R., Kupfer, Thomas, Laher, Russ R., Mahabal, Ashish, Masci, Frank J., Miller, Adam A., Neill, James D., Patterson, Maria T, Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Ben, Smith, Roger, Tachibana, Yutaro, Walters, Richard

“…There is significant interest in the models for production of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Until now, the number of known short GRBs with multi-wavelength…”
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A 62-minute orbital period black widow binary in a wide hierarchical triple by Burdge, Kevin B., Marsh, Thomas R., Fuller, Jim, Bellm, Eric C., Caiazzo, Ilaria, Chakrabarty, Deepto, Coughlin, Michael W., De, Kishalay, Dhillon, V. S., Graham, Matthew J., Rodríguez-Gil, Pablo, Jaodand, Amruta D., Kaplan, David L., Kara, Erin, Kong, Albert K. H., Kulkarni, S. R., Li, Kwan-Lok, Littlefair, S. P., Majid, Walid A., Mróz, Przemek, Pearlman, Aaron B., Phinney, E. S., Roestel, Jan van, Simcoe, Robert A., Andreoni, Igor, Drake, Andrew J., Dekany, Richard G., Duev, Dmitry A., Kool, Erik C., Mahabal, Ashish A., Medford, Michael S., Riddle, Reed, Prince, Thomas A.

“…Over a dozen millisecond pulsars are ablating low-mass companions in close binary systems. In the original ‘black widow’, the eight-hour orbital period…”
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Evidence for an FU Orionis-like Outburst from a Classical T Tauri Star by Miller, Adam A, Hillenbrand, Lynne A, Covey, Kevin R, Poznanski, Dovi, Silverman, Jeffrey M, Kleiser, Io K. W, Rojas-Ayala, Bárbara, Muirhead, Philip S, Cenko, S. Bradley, Bloom, Joshua S, Kasliwal, Mansi M, Filippenko, Alexei V, Law, Nicholas M, Ofek, Eran O, Dekany, Richard G, Rahmer, Gustavo, Hale, David, Smith, Roger, Quimby, Robert M, Nugent, Peter, Jacobsen, Janet, Zolkower, Jeff, Velur, Viswa, Walters, Richard, Henning, John, Bui, Khanh, McKenna, Dan, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R, Klein, Christopher R, Kandrashoff, Michael, Morton, Alekzandir

“…We present pre- and post-outburst observations of the new FU Orionis-like young stellar object PTF 10qpf (also known as LkH Delta *a 188-G4 and HBC 722). Prior…”
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W. M. Keck observatory instrumentation status and future direction by Kassis, Marc, Allen, Steven L., Alverez, Carlos, Baker, Ashley, Banyal, Ravinder K., Bertz, Robert, Beichman, Charles, Brown, Aaron, Brown, Matthew, Bundy, Kevin, Cabak, Gerald, Cetre, Sylvain, Chin, Jason, Chun, Mark R., Cooke, Jeff, Delorme, Jacques, Deich, William, Dekany, Richard G., Devenot, Mark, Doppmann, Greg, Edelstein, Jerry, Fitzgerald, Michael P., Fucik, Jason R., Gao, Maodong, Gibson, Steve, Gillingham, Peter R., Gomez, Percy, Gottschalk, Colby, Halverson, Sam, Hill, Grant, Hinz, Philip, Holden, Bradford P., Howard, Andrew W., Jones, Tucker, Jovanovic, Nemanja, Kirby, Evan, Krishnan, Shanti, Kupke, Renate, Lanclos, Kyle, Larkin, James E., Leifer, Stephanie D., Lewis, Hilton A., Lilley, Scott, Lu, Jessica R., Lyke, James E., MacDonald, Nicholas, Martin, Christopher, Mather, John, Matuszewski, Mateusz, Mawet, Dimitri, McCarney, Ben, McGurk, Rosalie, Marin, Eduardo, Millar‐Blanchaer, Maxwell A., Nance, Craig, Nash, Reston B., Neill, James D., O'Meara, John M., Peretz, Eliad, Poppett, Claire, Konopacky, Quinn, Radovan, Matthew V., Ragland, Sam, Rider, Kodi, Roberts, Mitsuko, Rockosi, Constance, Rubenzahl, Ryan, Sallum, Stephanie, Sandford, Dale, Savage, Maureen, Simha, Sunil, Skemer, Andy J., Steidel, Charles C., Stelter, Richard D., Surendran, Avinash, Walawender, Josh, Westfall, Kyle B., Wizinowich, Peter, Wright, Shelley, Yeh, Sherry

“…Since the start of science operations in 1993, the twin 10‐m W. M. Keck Observatory (WMKO) telescopes have continued to maximize their scientific impact and to…”
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The SED Machine: A Robotic Spectrograph for Fast Transient Classification by Blagorodnova, Nadejda, Neill, James D., Walters, Richard, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Fremling, Christoffer, Ben-Ami, Sagi, Dekany, Richard G., Fucik, Jason R., Konidaris, Nick, Nash, Reston, Ngeow, Chow-Choong, Ofek, Eran O., Sullivan, Donal O’, Quimby, Robert, Ritter, Andreas, Vyhmeister, Karl E.

“…Current time domain facilities are finding several hundreds of transient astronomical events a year. The discovery rate is expected to increase in the future…”
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Bringing the visible universe into focus with Robo-AO by Baranec, Christoph, Riddle, Reed, Law, Nicholas M, Ramaprakash, A N, Tendulkar, Shriharsh P, Bui, Khanh, Burse, Mahesh P, Chordia, Pravin, Das, Hillol K, Davis, Jack T C, Dekany, Richard G, Kasliwal, Mansi M, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R, Morton, Timothy D, Ofek, Eran O, Punnadi, Sujit

“…The angular resolution of ground-based optical telescopes is limited by the degrading effects of the turbulent atmosphere. In the absence of an atmosphere, the…”
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