The GROWTH Marshal: A Dynamic Science Portal for Time-Domain Astronomy

Abstract

We describe a dynamic science portal called the GROWTH Marshal that allows time-domain astronomers to define science programs, program filters to save sources from different discovery streams, co-ordinate follow-up with various robotic or classical telescopes, analyze the panchromatic follow-up data and generate summary tables for publication. The GROWTH marshal currently serves 137 scientists, 38 science programs and 67 telescopes. Every night, in real-time, several science programs apply various customized filters to the 10^5 nightly alerts from the Zwicky Transient Facility. Here, we describe the schematic and explain the functionality of the various components of this international collaborative platform.

Published in PASP Focus Issue on the Zwicky Transient Facility (doi: 10.1088/1538-3873/aafbc2). 12 Pages, 6 Figures

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