Zwicky Transient Facility
(ZTF)
(survey designed to find transients)
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is
an automated survey designed to find and report
transients, which began surveying in 2018 using a custom
camera on the Palomar 48 Inch Telescope at the Palomar Observatory.
It is an improved version of earlier similar efforts on the
same telescope, the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) and the iPTF,
the ZTF using an improved CCD which utilizes far more of the
available field of view (FOV) of the telescope (a Schmidt camera with a
47 square-degree FOV). This newer CCD also allows data to be
extracted with less time-overhead, i.e., a more efficient
duty cycle, adding to its sensitivity.
(survey,transients,exoplanets,automated,all sky)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwicky_Transient_Facility
https://www.ztf.caltech.edu/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014htu..conf...27B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019IAUS..339..160B/abstract
Prefix | Example | | |
ZTF | ZTF J0139+5245 | non-transient | |
ZTF | ZTF18abvkwla | transient | |
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Referenced by pages:
AT2019dsg
Palomar 48 Inch Telescope (P48)
Palomar 60-inch Telescope (P60)
Palomar Observatory
Palomar Transient Factory (PTF)
supernova survey
transient astronomy
ZTF J1539+5027
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