Simulations of common-envelope evolution in binary stellar systems: physical models and numerical techniques

FK Röpke, O De Marco - Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics, 2023 - Springer
When the primary star in a close binary system evolves into a giant and engulfs its
companion, its core and the companion temporarily orbit each other inside a common …

Changing-look active galactic nuclei

C Ricci, B Trakhtenbrot - Nature Astronomy, 2023 - nature.com
Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are known to show flux variability over all observable
timescales and across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Over the past decade, a growing …

The Zwicky Transient Facility: system overview, performance, and first results

EC Bellm, SR Kulkarni, MJ Graham… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract 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 …

ATLAS: a high-cadence all-sky survey system

JL Tonry, L Denneau, AN Heinze… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Technology has advanced to the point that it is possible to image the entire sky every night
and process the data in real time. The sky is hardly static: many interesting phenomena …

The all-sky automated survey for supernovae (ASAS-SN) light curve server v1. 0

CS Kochanek, BJ Shappee, KZ Stanek… - Publications of the …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) is working toward
imaging the entire visible sky every night to a depth of $ V\sim 17$ mag. The present data …

The zwicky transient facility: science objectives

MJ Graham, SR Kulkarni, EC Bellm… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public–private enterprise, is a new time-
domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope …

Candidate electromagnetic counterpart to the binary black hole merger gravitational-wave event s190521g

MJ Graham, KES Ford, B McKernan, NP Ross, D Stern… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We report the first plausible optical electromagnetic counterpart to a (candidate) binary black
hole merger. Detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility, the electromagnetic flare is …

General catalogue of variable stars: Version GCVS 5.1

NN Samus', EV Kazarovets, OV Durlevich… - Astronomy Reports, 2017 - Springer
Work aimed at compiling detailed catalogs of variable stars in the Galaxy, which has been
carried out continuously by Moscow variable-star researchers since 1946 on behalf of the …

Design and operation of the ATLAS transient science server

KW Smith, SJ Smartt, DR Young, JL Tonry… - Publications of the …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Asteroid Terrestrial impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) system consists of two
0.5 m Schmidt telescopes with cameras covering 29 square degrees at plate scale of 1.86 …

The automatic learning for the rapid classification of events (ALeRCE) alert broker

F Förster, G Cabrera-Vives… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We introduce the Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events
(ALeRCE) broker, an astronomical alert broker designed to provide a rapid and self …