Year: 2018
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The Zwicky Transient Facility is a new robotic-observing program, in which a newly engineered 600-MP digital camera with a pioneeringly large field of view, 47 square degrees, will be installed into the 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory. The camera will generate 1 petabyte of raw image data over three years of operations. In parallel related work, new hardware and software systems are being developed to process these data in real time and build a long-term archive for the processed products. The first public release of archived products is planned for early 2019, which will include processed images and astronomical-source catalogs of the northern sky in the g and r bands. Source catalogs based on two different methods will be generated for the archive: aperture photometry and point-spread-function fitting.
Authors: IPAC, Caltech, Ross Laher, Frank Masci, IPAC, Caltech, Steve Groom, IPAC, Caltech, Benjamin Rusholme, IPAC, Caltech, David Shupe, IPAC, Caltech, Ed Jackson, IPAC, Caltech, Dave Flynn, IPAC, Caltech, Walter Landry, IPAC, Caltech, Scott Terek, IPAC, Caltech, George Helou, IPAC, Caltech, Jason Surace, IPAC, Caltech, Ron Beck, IPAC, Caltech, Eugean Hasscopians, Umaa Rebbapragada, JPL, Caltech, Brian Bue, JPL, Caltech, Roger Smith, Caltech Optical Observatories, Adam Miller, S Cenko, Thomas Kupfer, Caltech, Lin Yan, Caltech, Tom Barlow, Caltech, Eric Bellm, Matthew Graham, Caltech, Mansi Kasliwal, Caltech, Thomas Prince, Caltech, Kulkarni Shrinivas, Caltech
Language: English
Subfield: Instrumentation
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Funders: National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, California Institute of Technology, University of Washington, University of Maryland, Weizmann Institute of Science, Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, University System of Taiwan, Stockholms Universitet, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Institute for Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Washington, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Award: ZWICKY TRANSIENT FACILITY
OpenAlex ID: W2963998669