• The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF, obs. code: I41) is a wide-field sky astronomical survey using a new camera attached to the Samuel Oschin Telescope...
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    are 2.3 m and 4 m. The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) was commissioned in 2018, superseding the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (2009–2017). It...
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    asteroid 1803 Zwicky and the lunar crater Zwicky are both named in his honor. The Zwicky Transient Facility is named in his honor. Zwicky produced hundreds...
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    the 48-inch (1.2 m) Samuel Oschin Telescope (dedicated to the Zwicky Transient Facility, ZTF), the Palomar 60-inch (1.5 m) Telescope, and the 30-centimetre...
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    The object was subsequently detected in images taken by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) in Palomar Observatory on 22 December 2022, when it had...
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    fast blue optical transient (FBOT), or more specifically, luminous fast blue optical transient (LFBOT), is an explosive transient event similar to supernovae...
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    non-periodic comet from the Oort cloud that was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) on 2 March 2022. The comet has a bright green glow around...
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  • detected on 5 February 2018, announced on 8 February 2018, of the Zwicky Transient Facility project, located at Palomar Observatory, California, in the United...
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    ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim, which was discovered on 4 January 2020 by the Zwicky Transient Facility. As the archetype, it subsequently gave its name to the class...
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  • succeeded by the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF), which itself transitioned to the Zwicky Transient Facility in 2017/18. All three surveys are...
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  • roughly in the direction of Epsilon Aquilae, discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility circa 2021. It is the most massive white dwarf yet found, having...
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    Initial magnitude at discovery was 14.9. After discovery, the Zwicky Transient Facility project found a precovery image of the supernova at magnitude...
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  • (400 pc) away in the constellation Cygnus, discovered in 2019 by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), located at the Palomar Observatory, while looking for periodically...
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    594913 ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim (category Discoveries by the Zwicky Transient Facility)
    designation 2020 AV2) is a large near-Earth asteroid discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility on 4 January 2020. It is the first asteroid discovered to have...
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    first identified in imagery obtained on 13 April 2021 by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) astronomical survey and is believed to be due to the accretion...
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    to a magnitude of 21. The Zwicky Transient Facility (2018–present) is a similar, rapid, wide-field survey to detect transient events. The telescope has...
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    event was also assigned the random name "ZTF20abrbeie" by the Zwicky Transient Facility. This name and the seeming ferocity of the event led to nickname...
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    2019 LF6 (category Discoveries by the Zwicky Transient Facility)
    brightens above 16th magnitude. Discovery was made using the Zwicky Transient Facility. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.3–0.8 AU once every 5 months...
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    first observed on 4 January 2019, by astronomers at Palomar's Zwicky Transient Facility in California, with recovered images dating back to 2015. The...
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    a computer algorithm that searched over 1,000 images from the Zwicky Transient Facility, identifying stars that had brightness variability periods around...
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  • January 2022). "Impact of the SpaceX Starlink Satellites on the Zwicky Transient Facility Survey Observations". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 924 (2):...
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    Konstantin (31 January 2022). "A search for Planet Nine using the Zwicky Transient Facility public archive". The Astronomical Journal. 163 (2): 102. arXiv:2110...
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    planetary debris. Two transits have been observed in the 210-day-long Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) light curve of the star, each transit about 25 days long...
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    et al. Gravitational waves, assuming that the transient ZTF19abanrh found by the Zwicky Transient Facility is the optical counterpart to GW190521. Independent...
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    2021, they also searched the first three years of data from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) without identifying Planet Nine. The search of the ZTF data...
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    through several astronomical methods. such as optical transient surveys including Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae...
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    otherwise prepare the affected Earth region. Another project, the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), which surveys for objects that change their brightness...
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    are responsible for kilonovae as well. In February 2018, the Zwicky Transient Facility began to track neutron star events via gravitational wave observation...
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    January 2022). "Impact of the SpaceX Starlink Satellites on the Zwicky Transient Facility Survey Observations". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 924 (2):...
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  • February – Astronomers report the first confirmed findings from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) project, with the discovery of 2018 CL, a small near-Earth...
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