The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results

C. Bellm, Eric; R. Kulkarni, S.; J. Graham, M.; Dekany, Richard; M. Smith, Roger; Riddle, Reed; J. Masci, Frank; Hélou, G.; A. Prince, Thomas; M. Adams, S.; Barbarino, C.; A. Barlow, Tom; Bauer, J.; Beck, R.; Belicki, Justin; Biswas, Rahul; Blagorodnova, N.; Bodewits, Dennis; Bolin, Bryce; Brinnel, V.; Y. Brooke, T.; Bue, Brian; Bulla, Mattia; Burruss, Rick; B. Cenko, S.; Chang, Chan-Kao; J. Connolly, Andrew; W. Coughlin, M.; Cromer, John; Cunningham, Virginia; De, Kishalay; Delacroix, Alex; Desai, Vandana; A. Duev, Dmitry; M. Eadie, Gwendolyn; L. Farnham, T.; Feeney, Michael; Feindt, U.; Flynn, David; Franckowiak, A.; Frederick, Sara; Fremling, C.; Gal‐Yam, A.; Gezari, Suvi; Giomi, M.; A. Goldstein, D.; Z. Golkhou, V.; Goobar, A.; L. Groom, Steven; Hacopians, Eugean; Hale, David; Henning, John; Y. Q. Ho, Anna; Hover, David; Howell, Justin; Hung, T.; Huppenkothen, Daniela; Imel, D.; Ip, Wing-Huen; Ivezić, Željko; Jackson, Edward; Jones, Lynne; Jurić, Mario; M. Kasliwal, M.; Kaspi, S.; Kaye, Stephen; S. P. Kelley, Michael; Kowalski, M.; Kramer, Emily; Kupfer, Thomas; Landry, Walter; R. Laher, Russ; Lee, Chien-De; Wen Lin, Hsing; Lin, Zhong-Yi; Lunnan, R.; Giomi, M.; Mahabal, A.; Mao, Peter; A. Miller, Adam; Monkewitz, S.; Murphy, Patrick; Ngeow, Chow‐Choong; Nordin, J.; Nugent, P.; Ofek, Eran; T. Patterson, Maria; E. Penprase, Bryan; Porter, Michael; Rauch, L.; Rebbapragada, Umaa; Reiley, Dan; Rigault, M.; Rodríguez, Héctor; van Roestel, Jan; Rusholme, B.; van Santen, Jakob; Schulze, S.; L. Shupe, D.; P. Singer, L.; T. Soumagnac, Maayane; Stein, Robert; Surace, Jason; Sollerman, J.; Szkody, Paula; Taddia, F.; Terek, Scott; Van Sistine, Angela; van Velzen, Sjoert; T. Vestrand, W.; Walters, Richard; Ward, Charlotte; Ye, Quanzhi; Yu, Po‐Chieh; Yan, Lin; Zolkower, Jeffry

doi:10.1088/1538-3873/aaecbe

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The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results

Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific • Dec 7, 2018

Authors:

Eric C. Bellm

S. R. Kulkarni

M. J. Graham

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 2 field of view and 8 s readout time, yielding more than an order of magnitude improvement in survey speed relative to its prede...

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Transient (computer programming)

Environmental science

Computer science

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