The Zwicky Transient Facility

Eric C. Bellm

The Zwicky Transient Facility

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2014-10-31 v1

Authors: Eric C. Bellm

Abstract

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a next-generation optical synoptic survey that builds on the experience and infrastructure of the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF). Using a new 47 deg $^2$ survey camera, ZTF will survey more than an order of magnitude faster than PTF to discover rare transients and variables. I describe the survey and the camera design. Searches for young supernovae, fast transients, counterparts to gravitational-wave detections, and rare variables will benefit from ZTF's high cadence, wide area survey.

Keywords

radio astronomy instrumentation astronomical instrumentation and telescopes

Cite

@article{arxiv.1410.8185,
  title  = {The Zwicky Transient Facility},
  author = {Eric C. Bellm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.8185},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

6 pages. Published in Proceedings of the Third Hot-Wiring the Transient Universe Workshop, available at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C131113.1/proceedings.html

The Zwicky Transient Facility

Abstract

Keywords

Cite

Comments

Related papers