The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results

被引：848

作者：

Bellm, Eric C. ^{[1
]}

Kulkarni, Shrinivas R. ^{[2
]}

Graham, Matthew J. ^{[2
]}

Dekany, Richard ^{[3
]}

Smith, Roger M. ^{[3
]}

Riddle, Reed ^{[3
]}

Masci, Frank J. ^{[4
]}

Helou, George ^{[4
]}

Prince, Thomas A. ^{[2
]}

Adams, Scott M. ^{[2
]}

Barbarino, C. ^{[5
,6
]}

Barlow, Tom ^{[2
]}

Bauer, James ^{[7
]}

Beck, Ron ^{[4
]}

Belicki, Justin ^{[3
]}

Biswas, Rahul ^{[8
]}

Blagorodnova, Nadejda ^{[2
]}

Bodewits, Dennis ^{[7
]}

Bolin, Bryce ^{[1
,9
]}

Brinnel, Valery ^{[10
]}

Brooke, Tim ^{[4
]}

Bue, Brian ^{[11
]}

Bulla, Mattia ^{[8
]}

Burruss, Rick ^{[3
]}

Cenko, S. Bradley ^{[12
,13
]}

Chang, Chan-Kao ^{[14
]}

Connolly, Andrew ^{[1
]}

Coughlin, Michael ^{[2
]}

Cromer, John ^{[3
]}

Cunningham, Virginia ^{[7
]}

De, Kishalay ^{[2
]}

Delacroix, Alex ^{[3
]}

Desai, Vandana ^{[4
]}

Duev, Dmitry A. ^{[2
]}

Eadie, Gwendolyn ^{[1
,15
,16
]}

Farnham, Tony L. ^{[7
]}

Feeney, Michael ^{[3
]}

Feindt, Ulrich ^{[8
]}

Flynn, David ^{[4
]}

Franckowiak, Anna ^{[17
]}

Frederick, S. ^{[7
]}

Fremling, C. ^{[2
]}

Gal-Yam, Avishay ^{[18
]}

Gezari, Suvi ^{[7
,13
]}

Giomi, Matteo ^{[10
]}

Goldstein, Daniel A. ^{[2
]}

Golkhou, V. Zach ^{[1
,16
]}

Goobar, Ariel ^{[8
]}

Groom, Steven ^{[4
]}

Hacopians, Eugean ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Washington, Dept Astron, DIRAC Inst, 3910 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

[2] CALTECH, Div Phys Math & Astron, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[3] CALTECH, Opt Observ, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[4] CALTECH, IPAC, MS 100-22, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[5] Stockholm Univ, Oskar Klein Ctr, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

[6] Stockholm Univ, Dept Astron, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

[7] Univ Maryland, Dept Astron, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

[8] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, Oskar Klein Ctr, AlbaNova, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

[9] B612 Asteroid Inst, 20 Sunnyside Ave,Suite 427, Mill Valley, CA 94941 USA

[10] Humboldt Univ, Inst Phys, Newtonstr 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany

[11] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA

[12] NASA, Astrophys Sci Div, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[13] Univ Maryland, Joint Space Sci Inst, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

[14] Natl Cent Univ, Inst Astron, Taoyuan 32001, Taiwan

[15] Univ Washington, Dept Astron, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

[16] Univ Washington, eSci Inst, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

[17] Deutsch Elektronensynchrotron, Platanenallee 6, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany

[18] Weizmann Inst Sci, Dept Particle Phys & Astrophys, 234 Herzl St, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel

[19] Macau Univ Sci & Technol, Space Sci Inst, Macau, Peoples R China

[20] Tel Aviv Univ, Raymond & Beverly Sackler Fac Exact Sci, Sch Phys & Astron, IL-6997801 Tel Aviv, Israel

[21] Tel Aviv Univ, Raymond & Beverly Sackler Fac Exact Sci, Wise Observ, IL-6997801 Tel Aviv, Israel

[22] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Kavli Inst Theoret Phys, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA

[23] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Phys, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA

[24] Univ Michigan, Dept Phys, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA

[25] CALTECH, Ctr Data Driven Discovery, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[26] Northwestern Univ, Ctr Interdisciplinary Explorat & Res Astrophys, 2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL 60208 USA

[27] Northwestern Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, 2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL 60208 USA

[28] Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL 60605 USA

[29] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Dept Computat Sci, 1 Cyclotron Rd,MS 50B-4206, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[30] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Astron, 601 Campbell Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[31] Weizmann Inst Sci, Benoziyo Ctr Astrophys, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel

[32] Weizmann Inst Sci, Helen Kimmel Ctr Planetary Sci, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel

[33] Soka Univ Amer, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 USA

[34] Univ Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Phys Clermont, F-63000 Clermont Ferrand, France

[35] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, IMAPP, Dept Astrophys, POB 9010, NL-6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands

[36] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Ctr Gravitat Cosmol & Astrophys, POB 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA

[37] Los Alamos Natl Lab, POB 1663, Los Alamos, NM USA

来源：

PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC | 2019年 / 131卷 / 995期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会; 瑞典研究理事会; 欧洲研究理事会; 以色列科学基金会;

关键词：

instrumentation: photometers; telescopes; PHOTOMETRY; PROGRAM;

D O I：

10.1088/1538-3873/aaecbe

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new optical time-domain survey that uses the Palomar 48 inch Schmidt telescope. A custom-built wide-field camera provides a 47 deg(2) field of view and 8 s readout time, yielding more than an order of magnitude improvement in survey speed relative to its predecessor survey, the Palomar Transient Factory. We describe the design and implementation of the camera and observing system. The ZTF data system at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center provides near-real-time reduction to identify moving and varying objects. We outline the analysis pipelines, data products, and associated archive. Finally, we present on-sky performance analysis and first scientific results from commissioning and the early survey. ZTF's public alert stream will serve as a useful precursor for that of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.

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