兹威基瞬变设施：系统概述、性能与首批结果
天体物理仪器与方法
2019-02-07 v1
摘要
兹威基瞬变设施（ZTF）是一项使用帕洛玛 48 英寸施密特望远镜的新型光学时域巡天。定制的宽视场相机提供 47 deg 视场和 8 秒读出时间，相较其前身巡天帕洛玛瞬变工厂（PTF）在巡天速度上带来超过一个数量级的提升。我们描述了相机和观测系统的设计与实现。红外处理与分析中心的 ZTF 数据系统提供近实时归算以识别运动与变化天体。我们概述了分析流水线、数据产品及关联档案。最后，我们给出了上天性能分析和来自调试与早期巡天的首批科学结果。ZTF 的公开警报流将作为大型综合巡天望远镜的有用前驱。
引用
@article{arxiv.1902.01932,
title = {The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results},
author = {Eric C. Bellm and Shrinivas R. Kulkarni and Matthew J. Graham and Richard Dekany and Roger M. Smith and Reed Riddle and Frank J. Masci and George Helou and Thomas A. Prince and Scott M. Adams and C. Barbarino and Tom Barlow and James Bauer and Ron Beck and Justin Belicki and Rahul Biswas and Nadejda Blagorodnova and Dennis Bodewits and Bryce Bolin and Valery Brinnel and Tim Brooke and Brian Bue and Mattia Bulla and Rick Burruss and S. Bradley Cenko and Chan-Kao Chang and Andrew Connolly and Michael Coughlin and John Cromer and Virginia Cunningham and Kishalay De and Alex Delacroix and Vandana Desai and Dmitry A. Duev and Gwendolyn Eadie and Tony L. Farnham and Michael Feeney and Ulrich Feindt and David Flynn and Anna Franckowiak and S. Frederick and C. Fremling and Avishay Gal-Yam and Suvi Gezari and Matteo Giomi and Daniel A. Goldstein and V. Zach Golkhou and Ariel Goobar and Steven Groom and Eugean Hacopians and David Hale and John Henning and Anna Y. Q. Ho and David Hover and Justin Howell and Tiara Hung and Daniela Huppenkothen and David Imel and Wing-Huen Ip and Željko Ivezić and Edward Jackson and Lynne Jones and Mario Juric and Mansi M. Kasliwal and S. Kaspi and Stephen Kaye and Michael S. P. Kelley and Marek Kowalski and Emily Kramer and Thomas Kupfer and Walter Landry and Russ R. Laher and Chien-De Lee and Hsing Wen Lin and Zhong-Yi Lin and Ragnhild Lunnan and Matteo Giomi and Ashish Mahabal and Peter Mao and Adam A. Miller and Serge Monkewitz and Patrick Murphy and Chow-Choong Ngeow and Jakob Nordin and Peter Nugent and Eran Ofek and Maria T. Patterson and Bryan Penprase and Michael Porter and Ludwig Rauch and Umaa Rebbapragada and Dan Reiley and Mickael Rigault and Hector Rodriguez and Jan van Roestel and Ben Rusholme and Jakob van Santen and S. Schulze and David L. Shupe and Leo P. Singer and Maayane T. Soumagnac and Robert Stein and Jason Surace and Jesper Sollerman and Paula Szkody and F. Taddia and Scott Terek and Angela Van Sistine and Sjoert van Velzen and W. Thomas Vestrand and Richard Walters and Charlotte Ward and Quan-Zhi Ye and Po-Chieh Yu and Lin Yan and Jeffry Zolkower},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.01932},
year = {2019}
}
备注
Published in PASP Focus Issue on the Zwicky Transient Facility (https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/aaecbe). 21 Pages, 12 Figures