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ZTF Alerts and Follow-up Stephen Ridgway NOAO Following-up LSST Alerts Breakout August 16, 2018 #lsst2018 #lsst2018 LSST Project and Community Workshop 2018 Tucson August 13 - 17 LSST Project and Community Workshop 2018 Tucson


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ZTF Alerts and Follow-up Stephen Ridgway NOAO Following-up LSST Alerts Breakout August 16, 2018

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The ZTF Survey Project

Zwicky Transient Facility

  • A camera and survey with the

Palomar Samuel Oschin Schmidt Telescope

  • Sequel to PTF (Palomar

Transient Facility)

  • PI: Shri Kulkarni
  • Co-PI: Thomas Prince
  • Proj Sci: Mathew Graham
  • Survey Sci: Eric Bellm
  • https://www.ztf.caltech.edu/
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ZTF Collaborators

  • Caltech
  • IPAC
  • Weizmann Institute for Science
  • Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University
  • University of Maryland
  • University of Washington,
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron and Humboldt University
  • Los Alamos National Laboratories
  • TANGO Consortium of Taiwan
  • University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.
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NSF MSIP Matching Support

  • Enables
  • Public ZTF surveys
  • Public alert production
  • Annual data releases
  • First, ~June 2019
  • Managed by IPAC
  • Annual summer schools.
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The Zwicky Transient Facility

  • A 47 square degree

camera on the Palomar 48- inch Schmidt telescope

  • 24K x 24K camera
  • Median image quality 2” full

field – 1”/pixel

  • Can survey 3750 deg2 per

hour

  • Median depth of R=20.5
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The ZTF Transient Sky Survey

  • A 3 year survey in g

and r

  • Began June 2018
  • Currently producing

up to 100K alerts per night

  • Private and public

survey programs and cadences

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The ZTF Public Survey

  • The Northern Sky survey with a pair of visits in g and r

every 3 nights

  • The Galactic Plane survey with nightly visits in g and r
  • Catalog and images – first release ~June 2019
  • Alerts streaming now
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Options for the ZTF Alert Stream

  • Bulk daily download (tar file)
  • Selected event publication
  • ATEL - http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/
  • TNS - https://wis-tns.weizmann.ac.il/
  • Kafka feed (Kafka is a platform that is used publish and subscribe to

streams of records) – contact ZTF

  • Las Cumbres Observatory web interface - Make Alerts Really

Simple (MARS) - https://mars.lco.global

  • LSST-UK transient broker LASAIR - public interface: http://

lasair.roe.ac.uk/candlist/

  • (Jan 2019) – ANTARES begins ops with ZTF – watch NOAO

Currents and Proposal Information

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Snap from LCO MARS Search fields

  • JD, Time
  • ID
  • Filter
  • Position (Equat, Gal)
  • Nearby Obj
  • Mag, sigma
  • Delta mag
  • Star class
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Alert Follow-up

  • NOAO Telescope Allocation Process
  • Currently offering competed community access to LCO 1

and 2-m telescopes

  • Shared-risk proposals for follow-up observing on NOAO-

scheduled facilities of ZTF alerts are welcome now

  • End-to-end - see Bryan Miller presentation in this session

for details

  • ANTARES alert processing
  • AEON scheduling
  • SOAR Goodman spectrograph access
  • Extension to Gemini in development
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ZTF Community Science Advisory Committee

  • Marcel Aguerros (Columbia

University)

  • Todd Boroson (LCO)
  • Mukremin Kilic (University of

Oklahoma)

  • Juna Kollmeier (Carnegie

Observatories)

  • Maryam Modjaz (NYY)
  • Marc Pinsonneault (Ohio State

University)

  • Stephen Ridgway (NOAO).

Please share with us your experience with ZTF and your ambitions for the public survey