TY - JOUR
T1 - The Zwicky Transient Facility: Science Objectives
AU - Zwicky Transient Facility
AU - Graham, Matthew J.
AU - Kulkarni, S. R.
AU - Bellm, Eric C.
AU - Adams, Scott M.
AU - Barbarino, Cristina
AU - Blagorodnova, Nadejda
AU - Bodewits, Dennis
AU - Bolin, Bryce
AU - Brady, Patrick R.
AU - Cenko, S. Bradley
AU - Chang, Chan-Kao
AU - Coughlin, Michael W.
AU - De, Kishalay
AU - Eadie, Gwendolyn
AU - Farnham, Tony L.
AU - Feindt, Ulrich
AU - Franckowiak, Anna
AU - Fremling, Christoffer
AU - Gezari, Suvi
AU - Ghosh, Shaon
AU - Goldstein, Daniel A.
AU - Golkhou, V. Zach
AU - Goobar, Ariel
AU - Ho, Anna Y. Q.
AU - Huppenkothen, Daniela
AU - Ivezić, Željko
AU - Jones, R. Lynne
AU - Juric, Mario
AU - Kaplan, David L.
AU - Kasliwal, Mansi M.
AU - Kelley, Michael S. P.
AU - Kupfer, Thomas
AU - Lee, Chien-De
AU - Lin, Hsing Wen
AU - Lunnan, Ragnhild
AU - Mahabal, Ashish A.
AU - Miller, Adam A.
AU - Ngeow, Chow-Choong
AU - Nugent, Peter
AU - Ofek, Eran O.
AU - Prince, Thomas A.
AU - Rauch, Ludwig
AU - van Roestel, Jan
AU - Schulze, Steve
AU - Singer, Leo P.
AU - Sollerman, Jesper
AU - Taddia, Francesco
AU - Yan, Lin
AU - Ye, Quan-Zhi
AU - Kuhn, Michael
PY - 2019/7/1
Y1 - 2019/7/1
N2 - 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 deg2 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 ∼ 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.
AB - 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 deg2 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 ∼ 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.
KW - Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
KW - Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
U2 - 10.1088/1538-3873/ab006c
DO - 10.1088/1538-3873/ab006c
M3 - Article
SN - 0004-6280
VL - 131
JO - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
JF - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
M1 - 078001
ER -