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Ongoing large-scale optical time-domain surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), are producing alerts at unprecedented rates. Analysis of transient sources has so far followed two distinct paths: archival analysis of data on…

The Bright Transient Survey (BTS) aims to obtain a classification spectrum for all bright ($m_\mathrm{peak}\,\leq\,18.5\,$mag) extragalactic transients found in the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) public survey. BTS critically relies on…

We present the largest ground-based catalogue of M-dwarf flares to date, comprising 1,229 time-resolved events identified in Zwicky Transient Facility Data Release 17. Using high-cadence ZTF observations collected between April 2018 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 A. D. Lavrukhina , B. Demkov , K. Malanchev , M. V. Pruzhinskaya , E. E. O. Ishida

The discovery rate of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is increasing dramatically thanks to new radio facilities. Meanwhile, wide-field instruments such as the 47 deg$^2$ Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey the optical sky to study transient and…

The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is a synoptic sky survey in operation since 2009. PTF utilizes a 7.1 square degree camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope to survey the sky primarily at a single wavelength (R-band) at a rate of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-27 J. Surace , R. Laher , F. Masci , C. Grillmair , G. Helou

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey generates real-time alerts for optical transients, variables, and moving objects discovered in its wide-field survey. We describe the ZTF alert stream distribution and processing (filtering)…

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is currently surveying the entire northern sky, including dense Galactic plane fields. Here, we present preliminary results of the search for gravitational microlensing events in the ZTF data collected…

Microlensing surveys have discovered thousands of events with almost all events discovered within the Galactic bulge or toward the Magellanic clouds. The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), while not designed to be a microlensing campaign, is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 Michael S. Medford , Jessica R. Lu , William A. Dawson , Casey Y. Lam , Nathan R. Golovich , Edward F. Schlafly , Peter Nugent

We analyze the optical light-curve data, obtained with the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey, for 47 gamma-ray blazars monitored by the Large Area Telescope onboard {\it the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi)}. These 47 sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-12 Si-Si Sun , Zhongxiang Wang , Shun-hao Ji

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new optical time-domain survey that uses the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope. A custom-built wide-field camera provides a 47 deg$^2$ field of view and 8 second readout time, yielding more than an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-07 Eric C. Bellm , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni , Matthew J. Graham , Richard Dekany , Roger M. Smith , Reed Riddle , Frank J. Masci , George Helou , Thomas A. Prince , Scott M. Adams , C. Barbarino , Tom Barlow , James Bauer , Ron Beck , Justin Belicki , Rahul Biswas , Nadejda Blagorodnova , Dennis Bodewits , Bryce Bolin , Valery Brinnel , Tim Brooke , Brian Bue , Mattia Bulla , Rick Burruss , S. Bradley Cenko , Chan-Kao Chang , Andrew Connolly , Michael Coughlin , John Cromer , Virginia Cunningham , Kishalay De , Alex Delacroix , Vandana Desai , Dmitry A. Duev , Gwendolyn Eadie , Tony L. Farnham , Michael Feeney , Ulrich Feindt , David Flynn , Anna Franckowiak , S. Frederick , C. Fremling , Avishay Gal-Yam , Suvi Gezari , Matteo Giomi , Daniel A. Goldstein , V. Zach Golkhou , Ariel Goobar , Steven Groom , Eugean Hacopians , David Hale , John Henning , Anna Y. Q. Ho , David Hover , Justin Howell , Tiara Hung , Daniela Huppenkothen , David Imel , Wing-Huen Ip , Željko Ivezić , Edward Jackson , Lynne Jones , Mario Juric , Mansi M. Kasliwal , S. Kaspi , Stephen Kaye , Michael S. P. Kelley , Marek Kowalski , Emily Kramer , Thomas Kupfer , Walter Landry , Russ R. Laher , Chien-De Lee , Hsing Wen Lin , Zhong-Yi Lin , Ragnhild Lunnan , Matteo Giomi , Ashish Mahabal , Peter Mao , Adam A. Miller , Serge Monkewitz , Patrick Murphy , Chow-Choong Ngeow , Jakob Nordin , Peter Nugent , Eran Ofek , Maria T. Patterson , Bryan Penprase , Michael Porter , Ludwig Rauch , Umaa Rebbapragada , Dan Reiley , Mickael Rigault , Hector Rodriguez , Jan van Roestel , Ben Rusholme , Jakob van Santen , S. Schulze , David L. Shupe , Leo P. Singer , Maayane T. Soumagnac , Robert Stein , Jason Surace , Jesper Sollerman , Paula Szkody , F. Taddia , Scott Terek , Angela Van Sistine , Sjoert van Velzen , W. Thomas Vestrand , Richard Walters , Charlotte Ward , Quan-Zhi Ye , Po-Chieh Yu , Lin Yan , Jeffry Zolkower

Photometric classifications of supernova (SN) light curves have become necessary to utilize the full potential of large samples of observations obtained from wide-field photometric surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and…

In this project we use data obtained by Zwicky Transient Facility to develop and test a neural-network-based, multiband classification algorithm to classify periodic variable stars (i.e. pulsating variable stars and eclipsing binaries). The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Tamás Szklenár , Attila Bódi , Róbert Szabó

We explore the use of Swin Transformer V2, a pre-trained vision Transformer, for photometric classification in a multi-survey setting by leveraging light curves from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact…

We present the first version of the ALeRCE (Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events) broker light curve classifier. ALeRCE is currently processing the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) alert stream, in preparation for the…

Strong gravitational lensing of supernovae is exceedingly rare. To date, only a handful of lensed supernovae are known. Despite this, lensed supernovae have emerged as a promising method for measuring the current expansion rate of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 M. R. Magee , A. Sainz de Murieta , T. E. Collett , W. Enzi

Modern time-domain surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), detect far more extragalactic transients than can be spectroscopically classified. Photometric classification offers a scalable alternative, enabling the…

We report the automatic detection of 11 transients (7 possible supernovae and 4 active galactic nuclei candidates) within the Zwicky Transient Facility fourth data release (ZTF DR4), all of them observed in 2018 and absent from public…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 P. D. Aleo , K. L. Malanchev , M. V. Pruzhinskaya , E. E. O. Ishida , E. Russeil , M. V. Kornilov , V. S. Korolev , S. Sreejith , A. A. Volnova , G. S. Narayan

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) performs a systematic neutrino follow-up program, searching for optical counterparts to high-energy neutrinos with dedicated Target-of-Opportunity (ToO) observations. Since first light in March 2018, ZTF…

Type Ia supernovae (SNe~Ia) in the nearby Hubble flow are excellent distance indicators in cosmology. The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has observed a large sample of supernovae from an untargeted, rolling survey, reaching $20.8, 20.6,…