The Zwicky Transient Facility: Observing System
By R. Dekany, Roger M. Smith, R. Riddle, M. Feeney, Michael E. Porter, D. Hale, J. Zolkower, J. Belicki, S. Kaye, J. Henning and 16 more. Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2014
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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.
Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Instrumentation
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- The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS). Science Case and Survey Design (2019, background): “In the optical, both the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF; Smith et al. 2014) and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST; Ivezić et al. 2019) will provide access to information on optical transients, and LSST will also produce a deep, multiband galaxy survey over the whole southern sky.”
- The Zwicky Transient Facility Bright Transient Survey. II. A Public Statistical Sample for Exploring Supernova Demographics (2020, background): “…networks around the world, including the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN; Shappee et al. 2014), the Asteroid Terrestrial Last-Alert System (ATLAS; Tonry et al. 2018), and the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF; Bellm et al. 2019a, 2019b; Graham et al. 2019; Dekany et al. 2020).”