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Frank J. Masci

California Institute of Technology · US
Area of research
Astronomy and Astrophysics · Instrumentation
Research interest
Research interests include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, and Astro and Planetary Science.
h-index
60
citations
20,399
works
452
NIH funding
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Recent publications

Extremely stripped supernova reveals a silicon and sulfur formation site
Nature 2025cited by 12position: middledoi
A Luminous Red Optical Flare and Hard X-Ray Emission in the Tidal Disruption Event AT 2024kmq
The Astrophysical Journal 2025cited by 8position: middledoi
ZTF SN Ia DR2: Overview
Astronomy and Astrophysics 2024cited by 49position: middledoi
Collapsars as Sites of r-process Nucleosynthesis: Systematic Photometric Near-infrared Follow-up of Type Ic-BL Supernovae
The Astrophysical Journal 2024cited by 22position: middledoi
The Prevalence and Influence of Circumstellar Material around Hydrogen-rich Supernova Progenitors
The Astrophysical Journal 2023cited by 87position: middledoi
A Light in the Dark: Searching for Electromagnetic Counterparts to Black Hole–Black Hole Mergers in LIGO/Virgo O3 with the Zwicky Transient Facility
The Astrophysical Journal 2023cited by 86position: middledoi
The Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission
The Planetary Science Journal 2023cited by 77position: middledoi
An infrared transient from a star engulfing a planet
Nature 2023cited by 59position: middledoi
A radio-detected type Ia supernova with helium-rich circumstellar material
Nature 2023cited by 40position: middledoi
A Systematic Study of Ia-CSM Supernovae from the ZTF Bright Transient Survey
The Astrophysical Journal 2023cited by 36position: middledoi
Volumetric Rates of Luminous Red Novae and Intermediate-luminosity Red Transients with the Zwicky Transient Facility
The Astrophysical Journal 2023cited by 28position: middledoi
A Search for Relativistic Ejecta in a Sample of ZTF Broad-lined Type Ic Supernovae
The Astrophysical Journal 2023cited by 25position: middledoi
Neutrino follow-up with the Zwicky transient facility: results from the first 24 campaigns
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023cited by 21position: middledoi
Growth-rate measurement with type-Ia supernovae using ZTF survey simulations
Astronomy and Astrophysics 2023cited by 18position: middledoi
The NEO Surveyor Near-Earth Asteroid Known Object Model
The Planetary Science Journal 2023cited by 15position: lastdoi
SN 2020udy: an SN Iax with strict limits on interaction consistent with a helium-star companion
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023cited by 11position: middledoi
Palomar discovery and initial characterization of naked-eye long-period comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters 2023cited by 9position: middledoi
Comet P/2021 HS (PANSTARRS) and the Challenge of Detecting Low-activity Comets
The Planetary Science Journal 2023cited by 3position: middledoi
The Final Season Reimagined: 30 Tidal Disruption Events from the ZTF-I Survey
The Astrophysical Journal 2022cited by 189position: middledoi
The Type Icn SN 2021csp: Implications for the Origins of the Fastest Supernovae and the Fates of Wolf–Rayet Stars
The Astrophysical Journal 2022cited by 85position: middledoi
The Tidal Disruption Event AT2021ehb: Evidence of Relativistic Disk Reflection, and Rapid Evolution of the Disk–Corona System
The Astrophysical Journal 2022cited by 53position: middledoi
The Zwicky Transient Facility phase I sample of hydrogen-rich superluminous supernovae without strong narrow emission lines
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2022cited by 24position: middledoi
A tidal disruption event coincident with a high-energy neutrino
DESY Publication Database (PUBDB) (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) 2021cited by 232position: middle
Bright, Months-long Stellar Outbursts Announce the Explosion of Interaction-powered Supernovae
The Astrophysical Journal 2021cited by 116position: middledoi
Tidal Disruption Event Hosts Are Green and Centrally Concentrated: Signatures of a Post-merger System
The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2021cited by 80position: middledoi
\nThe luminous red nova AT 2018bwo in NGC 45 and its binary yellow supergiant progenitor
Radboud Repository (Radboud University) 2021cited by 61position: middledoi
Year 1 of the ZTF high-cadence Galactic plane survey: strategy, goals, and early results on new single-mode hot subdwarf B-star pulsators
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2021cited by 47position: middledoi
AT 2019avd: a novel addition to the diverse population of nuclear transients
Astronomy and Astrophysics 2021cited by 43position: middledoi
The luminous and rapidly evolving SN 2018bcc
Astronomy and Astrophysics 2021cited by 30position: middledoi
AGNs on the Move: A Search for Off-nuclear AGNs from Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes and Ongoing Galaxy Mergers with the Zwicky Transient Facility
The Astrophysical Journal 2021cited by 30position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Eric C. Bellm · University of Washington11 papers (2019–2023)M. J. Graham · California Institute of Technology11 papers (2019–2023)Russ R. Laher · California Institute of Technology10 papers (2018–2021)B. Rusholme · California Institute of Technology10 papers (2019–2023)Thomas Kupfer · California Institute of Technology9 papers (2018–2021)Reed Riddle · California Institute of Technology9 papers (2019–2023)Richard Dekany · California Institute of Technology9 papers (2019–2023)A. Mahabal · California Institute of Technology8 papers (2020–2023)Dmitry A. Duev · California Institute of Technology7 papers (2019–2023)S.R. Kulkarni · California Institute of Technology7 papers (2013–2021)C. Fremling · California Institute of Technology6 papers (2018–2023)Maayane T. Soumagnac · University of California, Berkeley6 papers (2019–2021)M. M. Kasliwal · AlbaNova6 papers (2020–2021)J. Sollerman · California Institute of Technology6 papers (2020–2022)Quanzhi Ye · University of Maryland, College Park5 papers (2019–2023)Lin Yan · California Institute of Technology5 papers (2012–2022)P. Nugent · University of California, Berkeley5 papers (2018–2021)Dennis Bodewits · Auburn University5 papers (2019–2023)Michael S. P. Kelley · Texas A&M University5 papers (2019–2023)A. J. Drake · California Institute of Technology4 papers (2021–2022)