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astro-ph.IM2017
Processing Images from the Zwicky Transient Facility
Russ R. Laher, Frank J. Masci, Steve Groom +25
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…
astro-ph.IM2016
The IPAC Image Subtraction and Discovery Pipeline for the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory
Frank Masci, Russ Laher, Umaa Rebbapragada +17
We describe the near real-time transient-source discovery engine for the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF), currently in operations at the Infrared Processing and Analy…
astro-ph.IM2014
IPAC Image Processing and Data Archiving for the Palomar Transient Factory
Russ R. Laher, Jason Surace, Carl J. Grillmair +26
The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is a multi-epochal robotic survey of the northern sky that acquires data for the scientific study of transient and variable astrophysical phenom…