Palomar Transient Factory
(PTF)
(survey designed to find transients)
The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) was
an automated survey designed to find and report
transients.
The equipment consisted of a wide-field survey
camera on the Palomar 48 Inch Telescope at
Palomar Observatory
plus automated data reduction and
filtering, e.g., to exclude aircraft.
It was designed to report in "real time"
to aid follow-up.
The survey collected data from 2009 to 2012.
Discoveries include supernovae and
near-Earth asteroids.
The PTF Orion Project was a sub-project to
search for YSOs within the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.
In 2013, the PTF's successor,
the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF)
began surveying on the same telescope,
replaced again in 2018 replaced by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF).
(survey,transients,exoplanets,automated,all sky,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palomar_Transient_Factory
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009PASP..121.1395L/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011AJ....142...60V/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019IAUS..339..160B/abstract
https://www.ptf.caltech.edu/iptf
Prefix | Example | | |
iPTF | iPTF14hls | Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory | |
PTF | PTF09dah | | |
PTFO | PTFO 8-8695 | Orion project | |
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Referenced by pages:
Nearby Supernova Factory (NSNF)
transient astronomy
Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)
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