Journal
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC
Volume 131, Issue 1001, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ab006c
Keywords
(stars:) supernovae: general; surveys; (galaxies:) quasars: general
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Funding
- U.S. National Science Foundation [AST-1440341]
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- Israeli Ministry of Science
- ISF
- Minerva
- BSF
- BSF transformative program
- I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee
- Israel Science Foundation [1829/12]
- EU via ERC [725161]
- Quantum Universe I-Core program
- Kimmel award
- NSF CAREER grant [1454816]
- NSF AAG grant [1616566]
- Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan) [104-2923-M-008-004-MY5, 104-2112-M-008-014-MY3, 105-2112-M-008-002-MY3, 106-2811-M-008-081, 106-2112-M-008-007]
- Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsradet)
- Swedish National Space Board
- University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Astronomy
- DIRAC Institute
- Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences
- Washington Research Foundation Data Science Term Chair fund
- UW Provost's Initiative in Data-Intensive Discovery
- Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
- National Science Foundation [1258333]
- Department of Energy [DE-AC02-76SF00515]
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- B612 Foundation
- W. K. Bowes Jr. Foundation
- P. Rawls Family Fund
- IMOS/ISA
- Ilan Ramon fellowship from the Israel Ministry of Science and Technology
- Benoziyo center for Astrophysics at the Weizmann Institute of Science
- Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation
- NASA/University of Maryland/MPC Augmentation through the NASA Planetary Data System Cooperative Agreement [NNX16AB16A]
- GROWTH (Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen) project - National Science Foundation PIRE (Partnership in International Research and Education) program [1545949]
- David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [759194-USNAC]
- NSF [PHY-1607585]
- [NSF AST-1749235]
- [NSF-1640818]
- [NASA 16-ADAP16-0232]
- NASA [907369, NNX16AB16A] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1616566] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- STFC [ST/S006176/1, ST/P006892/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public-private enterprise, is a new time-domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope with a 47 deg(2) field of view and an 8 second readout time. It is well positioned in the development of time-domain astronomy, offering operations at 10% of the scale and style of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) with a single 1-m class survey telescope. The public surveys will cover the observable northern sky every three nights in g and r filters and the visible Galactic plane every night in g and r. Alerts generated by these surveys are sent in real time to brokers. A consortium of universities that provided funding (partnership) are undertaking several boutique surveys. The combination of these surveys producing one million alerts per night allows for exploration of transient and variable astrophysical phenomena brighter than r similar to 20.5 on timescales of minutes to years. We describe the primary science objectives driving ZTF, including the physics of supernovae and relativistic explosions, multi-messenger astrophysics, supernova cosmology, active galactic nuclei, and tidal disruption events, stellar variability, and solar system objects.
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