The Tsinghua University-National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) Transient Survey (TNTS) is an automatic survey for a systematic exploration of optical transients (OTs), conducted with a 60/90 cm Schmidt telescope at Xinglong station of NAOC. This survey repeatedly covers ~ 1000 square degrees of the north sky with a cadence of 3-4 days. With an exposure of 60 s, the survey reaches a limited unfiltered magnitude of about 19.5 mag. This enables us to discover supernovae at their relatively young stages. In this paper, we describe the overall performance of our survey during the first year and present some preliminary results.
@article{arxiv.1411.3431,
title = {The THU-NAOC Transient Survey: the Performance and the First-year Result},
author = {Tianmeng Zhang and Xiaofeng Wang and Junchen Chen and Jujia Zhang and Li Zhou and Wenxiong Li and Qing Liu and Jun Mo and Kaicheng Zhang and Xinyu Yao and Xulin Zhao and Xu Zhou and Jundan Nie and Fang Huang and Zhaoji Jiang and Jun Ma and Lingzhi Wang and Chao Wu and Zhimin Zhou and Hu Zou and Lifan Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.3431},
year = {2015}
}
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11 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Research in Astron. Astrophys