The Zwicky Transient Facility

Abstract

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a next-generation optical synoptic survey that builds on the experience and infrastructure of the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF). Using a new 47 deg${}^2$ survey camera, ZTF will survey more than an order of magnitude faster than PTF to discover rare transients and variables. I describe the survey and the camera design. Searches for young supernovae, fast transients, counterparts to gravitational-wave detections, and rare variables will benefit from ZTF's high cadence, wide area survey.

6 pages. Published in Proceedings of the Third Hot-Wiring the Transient Universe Workshop, available at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C131113.1/proceedings.html

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