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Real-bogus classification for the Zwicky Transient Facility using deep learning by Duev, Dmitry A, Mahabal, Ashish, Masci, Frank J, Graham, Matthew J, Rusholme, Ben, Walters, Richard, Karmarkar, Ishani, Frederick, Sara, Kasliwal, Mansi M, Rebbapragada, Umaa, Ward, Charlotte

“…ABSTRACT Efficient automated detection of flux-transient, re-occurring flux-variable, and moving objects is increasingly important for large-scale astronomical…”
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The Zwicky Transient Facility Alert Distribution System by Patterson, Maria T., Bellm, Eric C., Rusholme, Ben, Masci, Frank J., Juric, Mario, Krughoff, K. Simon, Golkhou, V. Zach, Graham, Matthew J., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Helou, George

“…The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey generates real-time alerts for optical transients, variables, and moving objects discovered in its wide-field…”
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A highly magnetized and rapidly rotating white dwarf as small as the Moon by Caiazzo, Ilaria, Burdge, Kevin B., Fuller, James, Heyl, Jeremy, Kulkarni, S. R., Prince, Thomas A., Richer, Harvey B., Schwab, Josiah, Andreoni, Igor, Bellm, Eric C., Drake, Andrew, Duev, Dmitry A., Graham, Matthew J., Helou, George, Mahabal, Ashish A., Masci, Frank J., Smith, Roger, Soumagnac, Maayane T.

“…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…”
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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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A Family Tree of Optical Transients from Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxies by Frederick, Sara, Gezari, Suvi, Graham, Matthew J., Sollerman, Jesper, van Velzen, Sjoert, Perley, Daniel A., Stern, Daniel, Ward, Charlotte, Hammerstein, Erica, Hung, Tiara, Yan, Lin, Andreoni, Igor, Bellm, Eric C., Duev, Dmitry A., Kowalski, Marek, Mahabal, Ashish A., Masci, Frank J., Medford, Michael, Rusholme, Ben, Smith, Roger, Walters, Richard

“…Abstract The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has discovered five events (0.01 < z < 0.4) belonging to an emerging class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs)…”
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ZTF Early Observations of Type Ia Supernovae. III. Early-time Colors As a Test for Explosion Models and Multiple Populations by Bulla, Mattia, Miller, Adam A., Yao, Yuhan, Dessart, Luc, Dhawan, Suhail, Papadogiannakis, Semeli, Biswas, Rahul, Goobar, Ariel, Kulkarni, S. R., Nordin, Jakob, Nugent, Peter, Polin, Abigail, Sollerman, Jesper, Bellm, Eric C., Coughlin, Michael W., Dekany, Richard, Golkhou, V. Zach, Graham, Matthew J., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kupfer, Thomas, Laher, Russ R., Masci, Frank J., Porter, Michael, Rusholme, Ben, Shupe, David L.

“…Colors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in the first few days after explosion provide a potential discriminant between different models. In this paper, we…”
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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 Light in the Dark: Searching for Electromagnetic Counterparts to Black Hole–Black Hole Mergers in LIGO/Virgo O3 with the Zwicky Transient Facility by Graham, Matthew J., McKernan, Barry, Ford, K. E. Saavik, Stern, Daniel, Djorgovski, S. G., Coughlin, Michael, Burdge, Kevin B., Bellm, Eric C., Helou, George, Mahabal, Ashish A., Masci, Frank J., Purdum, Josiah, Rosnet, Philippe, Rusholme, Ben

“…Abstract The accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are promising locations for the merger of compact objects detected by gravitational wave (GW)…”
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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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ZTF Early Observations of Type Ia Supernovae. I. Properties of the 2018 Sample by Yao, Yuhan, Miller, Adam A., Kulkarni, S. R., Bulla, Mattia, Masci, Frank J., Goldstein, Daniel A., Goobar, Ariel, Nugent, Peter, Dugas, Alison, Blagorodnova, Nadia, Neill, James D., Rigault, Mickael, Sollerman, Jesper, Nordin, J., Bellm, Eric C., Cenko, S. Bradley, De, Kishalay, Dhawan, Suhail, Feindt, Ulrich, Fremling, C., Gatkine, Pradip, Graham, Matthew J., Graham, Melissa L., Ho, Anna Y. Q., Hung, T., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kupfer, Thomas, Laher, Russ R., Perley, Daniel A., Rusholme, Ben, Shupe, David L., Soumagnac, Maayane T., Taggart, K., Walters, Richard, Yan, Lin

“…Early-time observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are essential to constrain the properties of their progenitors. In this paper, we present high-quality…”
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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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SN2019dge: A Helium-rich Ultra-stripped Envelope Supernova by Yao, Yuhan, De, Kishalay, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Ho, Anna Y. Q., Schulze, Steve, Li, Zhihui, Kulkarni, S. R., Fruchter, Andrew, Rubin, David, Perley, Daniel A., Fuller, Jim, Piro, Anthony L., Fremling, C., Bellm, Eric C., Burruss, Rick, Duev, Dmitry A., Feeney, Michael, Gal-Yam, Avishay, Golkhou, V. Zach, Graham, Matthew J., Helou, George, Kupfer, Thomas, Laher, Russ R., Masci, Frank J., Miller, Adam A., Rusholme, Ben, Shupe, David L., Smith, Roger, Sollerman, Jesper, Soumagnac, Maayane T., Zolkower, Jeffry

“…We present observations of ZTF18abfcmjw (SN2019dge), a helium-rich supernova with a fast-evolving light curve indicating an extremely low ejecta mass ( 0.33 M…”
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The Koala: A Fast Blue Optical Transient with Luminous Radio Emission from a Starburst Dwarf Galaxy at z = 0.27 by Ho, Anna Y. Q., Perley, Daniel A., Kulkarni, S. R., Dong, Dillon Z. J., De, Kishalay, Chandra, Poonam, Andreoni, Igor, Bellm, Eric C., Burdge, Kevin B., Coughlin, Michael, Dekany, Richard, Feeney, Michael, Frederiks, Dmitry D., Fremling, Christoffer, Golkhou, V. Zach, Graham, Matthew J., Hale, David, Helou, George, Horesh, Assaf, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Laher, Russ R., Masci, Frank J., Miller, A. A., Porter, Michael, Ridnaia, Anna, Rusholme, Ben, Shupe, David L., Soumagnac, Maayane T., Svinkin, Dmitry S.

“…We present ZTF18abvkwla (the "Koala"), a fast blue optical transient discovered in the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) One-Day Cadence (1DC) Survey…”
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Census of the Local Universe (CLU) Narrowband Survey. I. Galaxy Catalogs from Preliminary Fields by Cook, David O., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Sistine, Angela Van, Kaplan, David L., Sutter, Jessica S., Kupfer, Thomas, Shupe, David L., Laher, Russ R., Masci, Frank J., Dale, Daniel A., Sesar, Branimir, Brady, Patrick R., Yan, Lin, Ofek, Eran O., Reitze, David H., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.

“…We present the Census of the Local Universe (CLU) narrowband survey to search for emission-line (H ) galaxies. CLU-H has imaged 3π of the sky (26,470 deg2)…”
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A Distance Measurement to M33 Using Optical Photometry of Mira Variables by Ou, Jia-Yu, Ngeow, Chow-Choong, Bhardwaj, Anupam, Graham, Matthew J., Laher, Russ R., Masci, Frank J., Riddle, Reed

“…Abstract We present a systematic analysis to determine and improve the pulsation periods of 1637 known long-period Mira variables in M33 using gri -band light…”
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The IPAC Image Subtraction and Discovery Pipeline for the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory by Masci, Frank J., Laher, Russ R., Rebbapragada, Umaa D., Doran, Gary B., Miller, Adam A., Bellm, Eric, Kasliwal, Mansi, Ofek, Eran O., Surace, Jason, Shupe, David L., Grillmair, Carl J., Jackson, Ed, Barlow, Tom, Yan, Lin, Cao, Yi, Cenko, S. Bradley, Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa J., Helou, George, Prince, Thomas A., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.

“…We describe the near real-time transient-source discovery engine for the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF), currently in operations at the Infrared…”
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Erratum: “Zwicky Transient Facility and Globular Clusters: The Period–Luminosity and Period–Wesenheit Relations for Anomalous Cepheids Supplemented with Large Magellanic Cloud Sample” (2022, AJ, 164, 191) by Ngeow, Chow-Choong, Bhardwaj, Anupam, Graham, Matthew J., Groom, Steven L., Masci, Frank J., Riddle, Reed

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Search for Supernova Progenitor Stars with ZTF and LSST by Strotjohann, Nora L., Ofek, Eran O., Gal-Yam, Avishay, Sollerman, Jesper, Chen, Ping, Yaron, Ofer, Zackay, Barak, Rehemtulla, Nabeel, Gris, Phillipe, Masci, Frank J., Rusholme, Ben, Purdum, Josiah

“…Abstract The direct detection of core-collapse supernova (SN) progenitor stars is a powerful way of probing the last stages of stellar evolution. However,…”
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The SPIRITS Sample of Luminous Infrared Transients: Uncovering Hidden Supernovae and Dusty Stellar Outbursts in Nearby Galaxies by Jencson, Jacob E., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Adams, Scott M., Bond, Howard E., De, Kishalay, Johansson, Joel, Karambelkar, Viraj, Lau, Ryan M., Tinyanont, Samaporn, Ryder, Stuart D., Cody, Ann Marie, Masci, Frank J., Bally, John, Blagorodnova, Nadejda, Castellón, Sergio, Fremling, Christoffer, Gehrz, Robert D., Helou, George, Kilpatrick, Charles D., Milne, Peter A., Morrell, Nidia, Perley, Daniel A., Phillips, M. M., Smith, Nathan, van Dyk, Schuyler D., Williams, Robert E.

“…Abstract We present a systematic study of the most luminous ( M IR [Vega magnitudes] brighter than −14) infrared (IR) transients discovered by the SPitzer…”
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A New Class of Changing-look LINERs by Frederick, Sara, Gezari, Suvi, Graham, Matthew J., Cenko, S. Bradley, van Velzen, Sjoert, Stern, Daniel, Blagorodnova, Nadejda, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Yan, Lin, De, Kishalay, Fremling, U. Christoffer, Hung, Tiara, Kara, Erin, Shupe, David L., Ward, Charlotte, Bellm, Eric C., Dekany, Richard, Duev, Dmitry A., Feindt, Ulrich, Giomi, Matteo, Kupfer, Thomas, Laher, Russ R., Masci, Frank J., Miller, Adam A., Neill, James D., Ngeow, Chow-Choong, Patterson, Maria T., Porter, Michael, Rusholme, Ben, Sollerman, Jesper, Walters, Richard

“…We report the discovery of six active galactic nuclei (AGNs) caught "turning on" during the first nine months of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey…”
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