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Overview

ZTF is described in a series of key papers listed listed below. ZTF was also featured in a special Focus issue of PASP.

The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results (Bellm et al. 2019)
The Zwicky Transient Facility: Science Objectives (Graham et al. 2019)
The Zwicky Transient Facility: Observing System (Dekany et al. 2019)
The Zwicky Transient Facility: Surveys and Scheduler (Bellm et al. 2019)
The Zwicky Transient Facility Alert Distribution System (Patterson et al. 2019)
The Zwicky Transient Facility: Data Processing, Products, and Archive (Masci et al. 2018)
Machine Learning for the ZTF (Mahabal et al. 2019)

Telescopes & Status

ZTF survey uses two telescopes both part of the Palomar Observatory.

The ZTF wide-field camera is mounted on the Samuel Oschin (P48) Telescope
Overview | Status | Documentation

The SEDM spectrograph operates on the 60-inch (P60) Telescope
Overview | Status & Documentation | Data Reduction Pipeline

Data & Access

The public releases are bi-monthly
Public Releases Overview | Access via IRSA

Simple daily alert archive is available to the community
Alert Stream

In 2024, ZTF is running a series of 3-night experiments with targeted observations for specific scientific needs
ZTF Experiments

Advanced notification of the planned observations for ZTF’s public surveys
ZTF Public Survey observing schedule

The ZTF spectroscopic supernova survey
Bright Transient Survey

Data Tools

Forced Photometry

Image Access

Catalog Search

ztffields: python package to interact with ZTF field at the focalplane, ccd or quadrant level

Github

Repositories for processing ZTF data and alerts
ZTF Github

Open source code for the astronomical data platform used by the ZTF partnership
ZTF Fritz System

A pure-python library that allows custom queries for any ZTF data product (developed by IN2P3)
ZTFquery

The 7th public release made available in HiPS for display by Aladin (by Universite de Strasbourgh)
DR7 HiPS

ZTF is a public-private partnership, with equal support from the ZTF Partnership and from the U.S. National Science Foundation through the Mid-Scale Innovations Program (MSIP).

The ZTF partnership is a consortium of the following universities and institutions (listed in descending longitude): Oskar Klein Center, Stockholm University, Sweden; Ruhr University, Germany; University of Warwick, UK; Drexel University, USA; Cornell University, USA; University of Maryland, College Park, USA; Northwestern University, Evanston, USA; University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA; University of California, Berkeley, USA; IPAC, Caltech, USA; Caltech, USA.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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