Journal
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC
Volume 132, Issue 1009, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ab4ca2
Keywords
instrumentation; detectors; instrumentation; miscellaneous; methods; observational; surveys; techniques; photometric; time
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- National Science Foundation [AST-1440341]
- Caltech
- IPAC
- Weizmann Institute for Science
- Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University
- University of Maryland
- University of Washington (UW)
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
- Humboldt University
- Los Alamos National Laboratories
- TANGO Consortium of Taiwan
- University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
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The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) Observing System (OS) is the data collector for the ZTF project to study astrophysical phenomena in the time domain. ZTF OS is based upon the 48 inch aperture Schmidt-type design Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory in Southern California. It incorporates new telescope aspheric corrector optics, dome and telescope drives, a large-format exposure shutter, a flat-field illumination system, a robotic bandpass filter exchanger, and the key element: a new 47-square-degree, 600 megapixel cryogenic CCD mosaic science camera, along with supporting equipment. The OS collects and delivers digitized survey data to the ZTF Data System (DS). Here, we describe the ZTF OS design, optical implementation, delivered image quality, detector performance, and robotic survey efficiency.
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