1. A Search for Extragalactic Fast Blue Optical Transients in ZTF and the Rate of AT2018cow-like Transients
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Ho, Anna Y. Q., Perley, Daniel A., Gal-Yam, Avishay, Lunnan, Ragnhild, Sollerman, Jesper, Schulze, Steve, Das, Kaustav K., Dobie, Dougal, Yao, Yuhan, Fremling, Christoffer, Adams, Scott, Anand, Shreya, Andreoni, Igor, Bellm, Eric C., Bruch, Rachel J., Burdge, Kevin B., Castro-Tirado, Alberto J., Dahiwale, Aishwarya, De, Kishalay, Dekany, Richard, Drake, Andrew J., Duev, Dmitry A., Graham, Matthew J., Helou, George, Kaplan, David L., Karambelkar, Viraj, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kool, Erik C., Kulkarni, S. R., Mahabal, Ashish A., Medford, Michael S., Miller, A. A., Nordin, Jakob, Ofek, Eran, Petitpas, Glen, Riddle, Reed, Sharma, Yashvi, Smith, Roger, Stewart, Adam J., Taggart, Kirsty, Tartaglia, Leonardo, Tzanidakis, Anastasios, and Winters, Jan Martin
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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
We present a search for extragalactic fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) during Phase I of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). We identify 38 candidates with durations above half-maximum light 1 d < t1/2 < 12 d, of which 28 have blue (g-r, Replaced following peer-review process. 46 pages, 20 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
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- 2021
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