Zwicky 瞬变设施:观测系统
天体物理仪器与方法
2020-08-13 v1 仪器与探测器
光学
摘要
Zwicky 瞬变设施(ZTF)观测系统(OS)是 ZTF 项目用于研究时域天体物理现象的数据收集器。ZTF OS 基于南加州 Palomar 天文台的 48 英寸口径 Schmidt 型 Samuel Oschin 望远镜设计。它集成了新的望远镜非球面改正镜光学、圆顶和望远镜驱动、大画幅曝光快门、平场照明系统、机器人波段滤光片交换器,以及关键部件:一个新的 47 平方度、6 亿像素低温 CCD 拼接科学相机及配套设备。OS 收集并将数字化巡天数据交付给 ZTF 数据系统(DS)。在此,我们描述 ZTF OS 的设计、光学实现、交付图像质量、探测器性能和机器人巡天效率。
引用
@article{arxiv.2008.04923,
title = {The Zwicky Transient Facility: Observing System},
author = {Richard Dekany and Roger M. Smith and Reed Riddle and Michael Feeney and Michael Porter and David Hale and Jeffry Zolkower and Justin Belicki and Stephen Kaye and John Henning and Richard Walters and John Cromer and Alex Delacroix and Hector Rodriguez and Daniel J. Reiley and Peter Mao and David Hover and Patrick Murphy and Rick Burruss and John Baker and Marek Kowalski and Klaus Reif and Phillip Mueller and Eric Bellm and Matthew Graham and Shrinivas R. Kulkarni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.04923},
year = {2020}
}
备注
31 pages, 26 figures, 5 tables; published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific