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 …

A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole

I Andreoni, MW Coughlin, DA Perley, Y Yao, W Lu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are bursts of electromagnetic energy that are released when
supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies violently disrupt a star that passes too …

Discovery and confirmation of the shortest gamma-ray burst from a collapsar

T Ahumada, LP Singer, S Anand, MW Coughlin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the brightest and most energetic events in the
Universe. The duration and hardness distribution of GRBs has two clusters, now understood …

Measurement of atmospheric neutrino oscillations at 6–56 GeV with IceCube DeepCore

MG Aartsen, M Ackermann, J Adams, JA Aguilar… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We present a measurement of the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters using three
years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The DeepCore infill array in the center …

Proper image subtraction—optimal transient detection, photometry, and hypothesis testing

B Zackay, EO Ofek, A Gal-Yam - The Astrophysical Journal, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Transient detection and flux measurement via image subtraction stand at the base of time
domain astronomy. Due to the varying seeing conditions, the image subtraction process is …

The fast, luminous ultraviolet transient AT2018cow: extreme supernova, or disruption of a star by an intermediate-mass black hole?

DA Perley, PA Mazzali, L Yan, SB Cenko… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Wide-field optical surveys have begun to uncover large samples of fast (t rise≲ 5 d),
luminous (M peak<− 18), blue transients. While commonly attributed to the breakout of a …

The zwicky transient facility alert distribution system

MT Patterson, EC Bellm, B Rusholme… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract 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 …

Fast-transient searches in real time with ZTFReST: identification of three optically discovered gamma-ray burst afterglows and new constraints on the kilonova rate

I Andreoni, MW Coughlin, EC Kool… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The most common way to discover extragalactic fast transients, which fade within a few
nights in the optical, is via follow-up of gamma-ray burst and gravitational-wave triggers …

The Koala: a fast blue optical transient with luminous radio emission from a starburst dwarf galaxy at z= 0.27

AYQ Ho, DA Perley, SR Kulkarni… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present ZTF18abvkwla (the" Koala"), a fast blue optical transient discovered in the
Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) One-Day Cadence (1DC) Survey. ZTF18abvkwla has a …

Gamma-ray bursts and their use as cosmic probes

P Schady - Royal Society open science, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Since the launch of the highly successful and ongoing Swift mission, the field of gamma-ray
bursts (GRBs) has undergone a revolution. The arcsecond GRB localizations available …