Processing Images from the Zwicky Transient Facility
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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 be installed into the 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory. The camera will generate 1 petabyte of raw image data over three years of operations. In parallel related work, new hardware and software systems are being developed to process these data in real time and build a long-term archive for the processed products. The first public release of archived products is planned for early 2019, which will include processed images and astronomical-source catalogs of the northern sky in the g and r bands. Source catalogs based on two different methods will be generated for the archive: aperture photometry and point-spread-function fitting.
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- Authors
- IPAC, C., Laher, R., Masci, F., IPAC, C., Groom, S., IPAC, C., Rusholme, B., IPAC, C., Shupe, D., IPAC, C., Jackson, E., IPAC, C., Flynn, D., IPAC, C., Landry, W., IPAC, C., Terek, S., IPAC, C., Helou, G., IPAC, C., Surace, J., IPAC, C., Beck, R., IPAC, C., Hasscopians, E., Anre Technologies Inc., Rebbapragada, U., JPL, C., Bue, B., JPL, C., Smith, R., Observatories, C. O., Miller, A., Northwestern University, Cenko, S., NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, Kupfer, T., Caltech, Yan, L., Caltech, Barlow, T., Caltech, Bellm, E., University of Washington, Graham, M., Caltech, Kasliwal, M., Caltech, Prince, T., Caltech, Shrinivas, K., & Caltech
- Affiliations
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (US)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (US)
- Northwestern University (US)
- Goddard Space Flight Center (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Robotic Telescopes, Student Research and Education Proceedings, Vol 1, No 1
- Publisher
- Our Solar Siblings
- Published
- 2018-10-18
- Pages
- 329-336
- OpenAlex
- W2963998669
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 3 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 2.81
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1440341)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- California Institute of Technology
- University of Washington
- University of Maryland
- Weizmann Institute of Science
- Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning
- University System of Taiwan
- Stockholms Universitet
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Institute for Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Washington
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Instrumentation › Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Computational Mechanics › Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
- Keywords
- Zwicky Transient Facility, transient survey, Palomar Observatory, digital cameras, image processing, real-time data processing, astronomical image archives, source catalog, aperture photometry, point spread function fitting, northern sky
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