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Bookmark or Share- ZTF at Palomar Observatory - Zwicky Transient FacilityPalomar Observatory - Home to ZTF. The wide-field ZTF camera is mounted on the 48-inch Samuel Oschin robotic telescope (P48), which is one of the facilities at the iconic Palomar Observatory. The SEDM spectrograph is operating on the 60-inch telescope (P60).
- Zwicky Transient Facility WebsiteThe Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a public-private partnership aimed at a systematic study of the optical night sky. Using an extremely wide-field of view camera, ZTF scans the entire Northern sky every two days.
- ZTF Public Data Releases - Zwicky Transient FacilityAn overview of the ZSDS is provided in Masci et al. 2018, The Zwicky Transient Facility: Data Processing, Products, and Archive , PASP, 131, 995. Pipelines, data products (including alert packets), product retrieval, formats, and usage are described in more detail in: The ZSDS Explanatory Supplement: Pipelines, Definitions, Data Products & Access .
- ZTF - For Astronomers - Zwicky Transient FacilityZTF is described in a series of key papers listed listed below. ZTF was also featured in a special Focus issue of PASP. The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results (Bellm et al. 2019) The Zwicky Transient Facility: Science Objectives (Graham et al. 2019)
- ZTF - NewsA rare asteroid orbiting snugly within the inner confines of our solar system has been discovered by Caltech's Zwicky Transient Facility, or ZTF, a survey camera based at Palomar Observatory. The newfound body, named 2020 AV2, is the first asteroid found to orbit entirely within the orbit of Venus.
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