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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 with a 47 deg2 field of view and an 8 second readout time. It is well positioned in the development of time-domain astronomy, offering operations at 10% of the scale and style of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) with a single 1-m class survey telescope. The public surveys will cover the observable northern sky every three nights in g and r filters and the visible Galactic plane every night in g and r. Alerts generated by these surveys are sent in real time to brokers. A consortium of universities that provided funding (“partnership”) are undertaking several boutique surveys. The combination of these surveys producing one million alerts per night allows for exploration of transient and variable astrophysical phenomena brighter than r∼20.5 on timescales of minutes to years. We describe the primary science objectives driving ZTF, including the physics of supernovae and relativistic explosions, multi-messenger astrophysics, supernova cosmology, active galactic nuclei, and tidal disruption events, stellar variability, and solar system objects.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 078001 |
Journal | Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
Volume | 131 |
Issue number | 1001 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2019 |
Keywords
- (galaxies:) quasars: general
- supernovae: general
- surveys
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Relay to Growth: Research and Education Laboratory for Time-Domain Astronomy for the Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen(4/5)
Ngeow, C.-C. (PI)
1/09/18 → 31/08/19
Project: Research
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Tango Iii: Extremely Wide-Field Observations of Transient Phenomena in the Local Universe and Solar System Patrol
Ip, W.-H. (PI)
1/08/17 → 31/07/19
Project: Research