Simultaneous observations of the northern TESS sectors by the Zwicky Transient Facility

Abstract

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is conducting a nightly public survey of all 13 TESS northern sectors in 2019-2020. ZTF will observe the portions of the current TESS sectors visible from Palomar Observatory each night. Each ZTF pointing will have one exposure each with $g$ and $r$ filters, totaling two images per night. ZTF is also making additional nightly $g$- and $r$-band observations of denser stellar regions (e.g. near the Galactic Plane) to better facilitate variability studies of Galactic objects. The limiting magnitude of the ZTF observations is $\approx$20.6 and ZTF saturates at magnitude $\approx$13. ZTF will release data from TESS fields in three forms: nightly alerts distributed by established ZTF brokers, nightly alerts converted to JSON format are distributed via ZTF's bucket on Google Cloud as a tarball, and monthly photometric light curves also distributed via Google Cloud.

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• The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results
• The Zwicky Transient Facility: Data Processing, Products, and Archive
• The Zwicky Transient Facility: Science Objectives

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