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	ZTF Experiments For 2024 ZTF is undertaking a series of monthly Experiments. These are 3-night projects exploring new scientific/technical areas with changes to the standard observing procedure. All of the alerts will be made public. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible.
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	60 seconds in the g, r, and i-bands Summary of the experiment: https://www.wis-tns.org/astronotes/astronote/2024-327 During the September experiment, we were able to conduct extensive spectroscopic follow-up. The campaign reached a classification completeness of 95% and spectroscopic completeness of 97.6%.
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> >	2024 October to November: Characterizing the Jupiter Trojans Goal: constraining the rotation, phase curves and color-coupling of the L5 swarm. 1-hour cadence of 180 second exposures in r and g, 500 square degrees at the L5 swarm.
	Call for Experiments The ZTF Scientific Steering Committee invites proposals for monthly ZTF Experiments starting in 2024 February. These Experiments should explore one or more novel aspects of ZTF scientific/technical capabilities that are different from routine operations. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible. All alerts will be public. An example of a past experiment is available at AstroNote 2023-349. Experiments will be run for 3 consecutive nights each month to minimize disruption to the MSIP survey plans. Proposals could be for up to 3 nights: shorter proposals may be grouped together. The proposal should be at most 1 page with requirements for:

Revision 112024-11-12 - PaulaSzkody

  ZTF Experiments 

For 2024 ZTF is undertaking a series of monthly Experiments. These are 3-night projects exploring new scientific/technical areas with changes to the standard observing procedure. All of the alerts will be made public. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible.
  Many transients, hard to filter
  Plan to do some classification using photometry only, plus galaxy associations
  Lack of proper planning (lack of i-band processing, lack of PS1 references) slowed things down. Can do better.
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  Nightly-cadence, three-filter survey of 10,450 square degrees of extragalactic sky.
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  Summary of the experiment: https://www.wis-tns.org/astronotes/astronote/2024-123
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  Summary of the experiment: https://www.wis-tns.org/astronotes/astronote/2024-123
 
  2024 July 4-6: Extended Deep Drilling 
 3 fields in galactic plane observed continuously for entire night in r-band with 30-s exposures
  July 4 field 539
  July 5 field 1637
  July 6 field 540
  light curves have been run on all fields, period searches are ongoing
 August: ZTF Flexible Weekends 
 2 visits (g + r), 60 seconds each, per field per night
  Focus on fields which were also visible to HST
 September 21 - 23: the Nightly-cadence Three-filter Bright Transient Survey 
 Nightly-cadence, three-filter survey of 12,000 square degrees of extragalactic sky.
  60 seconds in the g, r, and i-bands
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+ Summary of the experiment: https://www.wis-tns.org/astronotes/astronote/2024-327
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+ Summary of the experiment: https://www.wis-tns.org/astronotes/astronote/2024-327
  During the September experiment, we were able to conduct extensive spectroscopic follow-up. The campaign reached a classification completeness of 95% and spectroscopic completeness of 97.6%.
 
 

 Call for Experiments
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+The ZTF Scientific Steering Committee invites proposals for monthly ZTF Experiments starting in 2024 February. These Experiments should explore one or more novel aspects of ZTF scientific/technical capabilities that are different from routine operations. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible. All alerts will be public. An example of a past experiment is available at AstroNote 2023-349.
 Experiments will be run for 3 consecutive nights each month to minimize disruption to the MSIP survey plans. Proposals could be for up to 3 nights: shorter proposals may be grouped together.
 The proposal should be at most 1 page with requirements for:
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+The ZTF Scientific Steering Committee invites proposals for monthly ZTF Experiments starting in 2024 February. These Experiments should explore one or more novel aspects of ZTF scientific/technical capabilities that are different from routine operations. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible. All alerts will be public. An example of a past experiment is available at AstroNote 2023-349.
 Experiments will be run for 3 consecutive nights each month to minimize disruption to the MSIP survey plans. Proposals could be for up to 3 nights: shorter proposals may be grouped together.
 The proposal should be at most 1 page with requirements for:
  Science Motivation
  Field selection
  Cadence (minimum, maximum)
  Filter choice
  Exposure time
  Moon phase and/or date
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+Coordination with other facilities can also be noted if that is important (e.g., simultaneous spectroscopic time, or some other survey). The Experiment observations may be shifted to an appropriate weather window: if this is problematic that should be noted. If there are questions about schedulability of the desired plan this can be discussed in advance with Eric Bellm ( ecbellm@uw.edu), or it can be discussed after initial selection.
 We expect to make the ZTF collaboration (via email and slack) and the wider community (via an AstroNote or similar) aware of upcoming experiments so that they can plan accordingly. Any special plans/requirements for community notification can be discussed.
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+Coordination with other facilities can also be noted if that is important (e.g., simultaneous spectroscopic time, or some other survey). The Experiment observations may be shifted to an appropriate weather window: if this is problematic that should be noted. If there are questions about schedulability of the desired plan this can be discussed in advance with Eric Bellm ( ecbellm@uw.edu), or it can be discussed after initial selection.
 We expect to make the ZTF collaboration (via email and slack) and the wider community (via an AstroNote or similar) aware of upcoming experiments so that they can plan accordingly. Any special plans/requirements for community notification can be discussed.
 The first new Experiment will be in 2024 February. We invite proposals due January 19, 2024. Submissions can be sent from a Scientific Working Group or from a smaller group of people. Submissions should be sent via email to David Kaplan ( kaplan@uwm.edu). Additional calls for proposals may be issued depending on the range of submissions. Questions should be directed to David Kaplan ( kaplan@uwm.edu) and Mansi Kasliwal ( mansi@astro.caltech.edu).

Revision 102024-11-12 - DavidKaplan

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	ZTF Experiments For 2024 ZTF is undertaking a series of monthly Experiments. These are 3-night projects exploring new scientific/technical areas with changes to the standard observing procedure. All of the alerts will be made public. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible.
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	Many transients, hard to filter Plan to do some classification using photometry only, plus galaxy associations Lack of proper planning (lack of i-band processing, lack of PS1 references) slowed things down. Can do better.
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> >	2024 May 5 - 7: the Nightly-cadence Three-filter Bright Transient Survey Nightly-cadence, three-filter survey of 10,450 square degrees of extragalactic sky. 60 seconds in the g, r, and i-bands< Summary of the experiment: https://www.wis-tns.org/astronotes/astronote/2024-123
	2024 August: ZTF Flexible Weekends 2 visits (g + r), 60 seconds each, per field per night Focus on fields which were also visible to HST
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	Found lots of candidates, didn't have follow-up resources to vet as many targets as desired - especially faint ones Deep non-detections proved very useful for constraining age, which lead to the selection of the HST target Findings summarized in astronote, similar 3-day observing campaigns occured preceding later HST flex thursday triggers
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> >	2024 September 21 - 23: the Nightly-cadence Three-filter Bright Transient Survey Nightly-cadence, three-filter survey of 12,000 square degrees of extragalactic sky. 60 seconds in the g, r, and i-bands Summary of the experiment: https://www.wis-tns.org/astronotes/astronote/2024-327 During the September experiment, we were able to conduct extensive spectroscopic follow-up. The campaign reached a classification completeness of 95% and spectroscopic completeness of 97.6%.
	Call for Experiments The ZTF Scientific Steering Committee invites proposals for monthly ZTF Experiments starting in 2024 February. These Experiments should explore one or more novel aspects of ZTF scientific/technical capabilities that are different from routine operations. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible. All alerts will be public. An example of a past experiment is available at AstroNote 2023-349. Experiments will be run for 3 consecutive nights each month to minimize disruption to the MSIP survey plans. Proposals could be for up to 3 nights: shorter proposals may be grouped together. The proposal should be at most 1 page with requirements for:

Revision 92024-11-11 - NabeelRehemtulla

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	ZTF Experiments For 2024 ZTF is undertaking a series of monthly Experiments. These are 3-night projects exploring new scientific/technical areas with changes to the standard observing procedure. All of the alerts will be made public. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible.
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	Many transients, hard to filter Plan to do some classification using photometry only, plus galaxy associations Lack of proper planning (lack of i-band processing, lack of PS1 references) slowed things down. Can do better.
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> >	2024 August: ZTF Flexible Weekends 2 visits (g + r), 60 seconds each, per field per night Focus on fields which were also visible to HST Main goal: find young SN II for follow-up via HST flexible thursday ToO program Scheduled to occur immediately preceding HST flex thursday trigger (Fri-Sun) Had mostly good weather, slightly cloudy on one night Found lots of candidates, didn't have follow-up resources to vet as many targets as desired - especially faint ones Deep non-detections proved very useful for constraining age, which lead to the selection of the HST target Findings summarized in astronote, similar 3-day observing campaigns occured preceding later HST flex thursday triggers
	Future Experiments 2024 May: Bright Transient Survey All BTS sky

Revision 82024-05-29 - ZachVanderbosch

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	ZTF Experiments For 2024 ZTF is undertaking a series of monthly Experiments. These are 3-night projects exploring new scientific/technical areas with changes to the standard observing procedure. All of the alerts will be made public. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible.
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	Plan to do some classification using photometry only, plus galaxy associations Lack of proper planning (lack of i-band processing, lack of PS1 references) slowed things down. Can do better. Future Experiments
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< <	2024 January: Stellar deep drilling 2 fields/night: 1 primary field observed 8-10 hrs 1 secondary field with overlap of SDSS-V or COSMOS fields r-band only 30s exposures 2 Galactic plane fields (562 + 563), 1 extragalactic (840) Plans summarized in presentation from Zach Vanderbosch
	2024 May: Bright Transient Survey All BTS sky 1 exposure/night/filter (gr + i if possible)

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	ZTF Experiments For 2024 ZTF is undertaking a series of monthly Experiments. These are 3-night projects exploring new scientific/technical areas with changes to the standard observing procedure. All of the alerts will be made public. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible.
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	90s exposures, ggrg 3-4 visits per night Results summarized as AstroNote 2023-349, or presentation from Tomas Ahumada
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> >	2024 January 7-9: Extended Deep Drilling + SDSS-V Synergy 5 Fields (2 galactic plane, 3 extra-galactic) January 7: fields 563 and 468 January 8: fields 840 and 354 January 9: fields 562 and 468 30s exposures, continuous cadence, r-band only Fields 562, 563, 840 observed 8-10 hours Fields 354 and 468 observed 1-2 hours Field 468 on January 9 obtained 1.3hr of concurrent observations with SDSS-V spectroscopy Results summarized in presentation, Research Note in progress
	2024 March 1: ZTF-Decam joint experiment Joint observations of the sky visible from CTIO and Palomar, summing up to ~30 ZTF and ~ 700 DECam fields above airmass 2, avoiding the plane. DECam plan: g-band, 30 sec ZTF plan: grirg, 120 sec. Weathered out.
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	Results summarized in AstroNote 2024-68 2024 April: Faint Transients in Nearby Clusters 41 fields (Hercules, Hydra, Virgo/Coma/Leo, Ursa Major, Shapley Concentration)

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ZTF Experiments

For 2024 ZTF is undertaking a series of monthly Experiments. These are 3-night projects exploring new scientific/technical areas with changes to the standard observing procedure. All of the alerts will be made public. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible.

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- ZTF plan: grirg, 120 sec. Weathered out.
- We used the prvious ZTF nights to measure evolution.
- Results summarized in AstroNote 2024-68

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2024 April: Faint Transients in Nearby Clusters
- 41 fields (Hercules, Hydra, Virgo/Coma/Leo, Ursa Major, Shapley Concentration)
- 240s in g, r + 300s in i (limiting mag ~21.5 in g, r)
- Good weather but bad seeing
- Got most of the requested data, some lost due to scheduling
- Many transients, hard to filter
- Plan to do some classification using photometry only, plus galaxy associations
- Lack of proper planning (lack of i-band processing, lack of PS1 references) slowed things down. Can do better.

Future Experiments

2024 January: Stellar deep drilling
- 2 fields/night:

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	ZTF Experiments For 2024 ZTF is undertaking a series of monthly Experiments. These are 3-night projects exploring new scientific/technical areas with changes to the standard observing procedure. All of the alerts will be made public. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible.
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	90s exposures, ggrg 3-4 visits per night Results summarized as AstroNote 2023-349, or presentation from Tomas Ahumada
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> >	2024 March 1: ZTF-Decam joint experiment Joint observations of the sky visible from CTIO and Palomar, summing up to ~30 ZTF and ~ 700 DECam fields above airmass 2, avoiding the plane. DECam plan: g-band, 30 sec ZTF plan: grirg, 120 sec. Weathered out. We used the prvious ZTF nights to measure evolution. Results summarized in AstroNote 2024-68
	Future Experiments 2024 January: Stellar deep drilling 2 fields/night:

Revision 42024-04-25 - DavidKaplan

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	ZTF Experiments For 2024 ZTF is undertaking a series of monthly Experiments. These are 3-night projects exploring new scientific/technical areas with changes to the standard observing procedure. All of the alerts will be made public. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible.
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	30s exposures 2 Galactic plane fields (562 + 563), 1 extragalactic (840) Plans summarized in presentation from Zach Vanderbosch
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> >	2024 May: Bright Transient Survey All BTS sky 1 exposure/night/filter (gr + i if possible) 30s exposures Coordinated with spectroscopic followup
	Call for Experiments The ZTF Scientific Steering Committee invites proposals for monthly ZTF Experiments starting in 2024 February. These Experiments should explore one or more novel aspects of ZTF scientific/technical capabilities that are different from routine operations. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible. All alerts will be public. An example of a past experiment is available at AstroNote 2023-349. Experiments will be run for 3 consecutive nights each month to minimize disruption to the MSIP survey plans. Proposals could be for up to 3 nights: shorter proposals may be grouped together. The proposal should be at most 1 page with requirements for: Science Motivation

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	ZTF Experiments For 2024 ZTF is undertaking a series of monthly Experiments. These are 3-night projects exploring new scientific/technical areas with changes to the standard observing procedure. All of the alerts will be made public. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible.
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	1 secondary field with overlap of SDSS-V or COSMOS fields r-band only 30s exposures
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	Plans summarized in presentation from Zach Vanderbosch Call for Experiments The ZTF Scientific Steering Committee invites proposals for monthly ZTF Experiments starting in 2024 February. These Experiments should explore one or more novel aspects of ZTF scientific/technical capabilities that are different from routine operations. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible. All alerts will be public. An example of a past experiment is available at AstroNote 2023-349. Experiments will be run for 3 consecutive nights each month to minimize disruption to the MSIP survey plans. Proposals could be for up to 3 nights: shorter proposals may be grouped together. The proposal should be at most 1 page with requirements for:

Revision 22024-01-05 - ZachVanderbosch

  ZTF Experiments 

For 2024 ZTF is undertaking a series of monthly Experiments. These are 3-night projects exploring new scientific/technical areas with changes to the standard observing procedure. All of the alerts will be made public. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible.
  Results summarized as AstroNote 2023-349, or presentation from Tomas Ahumada
 
 
 Future Experiments 
 
 2024 January: Stellar deep drilling
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  Plans summarized in presentation from Zach Vanderbosch
 
 
 Call for Experiments
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+The ZTF Scientific Steering Committee invites proposals for monthly ZTF Experiments starting in 2024 February. These Experiments should explore one or more novel aspects of ZTF scientific/technical capabilities that are different from routine operations. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible. All alerts will be public. An example of a past experiment is available at AstroNote 2023-349.

Experiments will be run for 3 consecutive nights each month to minimize disruption to the MSIP survey plans. Proposals could be for up to 3 nights: shorter proposals may be grouped together.

The proposal should be at most 1 page with requirements for:
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+The ZTF Scientific Steering Committee invites proposals for monthly ZTF Experiments starting in 2024 February. These Experiments should explore one or more novel aspects of ZTF scientific/technical capabilities that are different from routine operations. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible. All alerts will be public. An example of a past experiment is available at AstroNote 2023-349.
 Experiments will be run for 3 consecutive nights each month to minimize disruption to the MSIP survey plans. Proposals could be for up to 3 nights: shorter proposals may be grouped together.
 The proposal should be at most 1 page with requirements for:
  Science Motivation
  Field selection
  Cadence (minimum, maximum)

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> >	ZTF Experiments For 2024 ZTF is undertaking a series of monthly Experiments. These are 3-night projects exploring new scientific/technical areas with changes to the standard observing procedure. All of the alerts will be made public. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible. Past Experiments 2023 December 14-16: High cadence ~100 fields with >8h above airmass 2, avoiding the plane 90s exposures, ggrg 3-4 visits per night Results summarized as AstroNote 2023-349, or presentation from Tomas Ahumada Future Experiments 2024 January: Stellar deep drilling 1 field/night r-band only 30s exposures 2 Galactic fields, 1 extragalactic Plans summarized in presentation from Zach Vanderbosch Call for Experiments The ZTF Scientific Steering Committee invites proposals for monthly ZTF Experiments starting in 2024 February. These Experiments should explore one or more novel aspects of ZTF scientific/technical capabilities that are different from routine operations. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible. All alerts will be public. An example of a past experiment is available at AstroNote 2023-349. Experiments will be run for 3 consecutive nights each month to minimize disruption to the MSIP survey plans. Proposals could be for up to 3 nights: shorter proposals may be grouped together. The proposal should be at most 1 page with requirements for: Science Motivation Field selection Cadence (minimum, maximum) Filter choice Exposure time Moon phase and/or date Coordination with other facilities can also be noted if that is important (e.g., simultaneous spectroscopic time, or some other survey). The Experiment observations may be shifted to an appropriate weather window: if this is problematic that should be noted. If there are questions about schedulability of the desired plan this can be discussed in advance with Eric Bellm ( ecbellm@uw.edu), or it can be discussed after initial selection. We expect to make the ZTF collaboration (via email and slack) and the wider community (via an AstroNote or similar) aware of upcoming experiments so that they can plan accordingly. Any special plans/requirements for community notification can be discussed. The first new Experiment will be in 2024 February. We invite proposals due January 19, 2024. Submissions can be sent from a Scientific Working Group or from a smaller group of people. Submissions should be sent via email to David Kaplan ( kaplan@uwm.edu). Additional calls for proposals may be issued depending on the range of submissions. Questions should be directed to David Kaplan ( kaplan@uwm.edu) and Mansi Kasliwal ( mansi@astro.caltech.edu). -- David Kaplan - 2023-12-22 Comments (Edit - Preview) <--/commentPlugin-->

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ZTF Experiments

Past Experiments

2023 December 14-16: High cadence
- ~100 fields with >8h above airmass 2, avoiding the plane
- 90s exposures, ggrg
- 3-4 visits per night
- Results summarized as AstroNote 2023-349, or presentation from Tomas Ahumada

Future Experiments

2024 January: Stellar deep drilling
- 1 field/night
- r-band only
- 30s exposures
- 2 Galactic fields, 1 extragalactic
- Plans summarized in presentation from Zach Vanderbosch

Call for Experiments

The ZTF Scientific Steering Committee invites proposals for monthly ZTF Experiments starting in 2024 February. These Experiments should explore one or more novel aspects of ZTF scientific/technical capabilities that are different from routine operations. Changes to cadence, field selection, integration time, filter choice are all possible. All alerts will be public. An example of a past experiment is available at AstroNote 2023-349.

Experiments will be run for 3 consecutive nights each month to minimize disruption to the MSIP survey plans. Proposals could be for up to 3 nights: shorter proposals may be grouped together.

The proposal should be at most 1 page with requirements for:

Science Motivation
Field selection
Cadence (minimum, maximum)
Filter choice
Exposure time
Moon phase and/or date

Coordination with other facilities can also be noted if that is important (e.g., simultaneous spectroscopic time, or some other survey). The Experiment observations may be shifted to an appropriate weather window: if this is problematic that should be noted. If there are questions about schedulability of the desired plan this can be discussed in advance with Eric Bellm ( ecbellm@uw.edu), or it can be discussed after initial selection.

We expect to make the ZTF collaboration (via email and slack) and the wider community (via an AstroNote or similar) aware of upcoming experiments so that they can plan accordingly. Any special plans/requirements for community notification can be discussed.

The first new Experiment will be in 2024 February. We invite proposals due January 19, 2024. Submissions can be sent from a Scientific Working Group or from a smaller group of people. Submissions should be sent via email to David Kaplan ( kaplan@uwm.edu). Additional calls for proposals may be issued depending on the range of submissions. Questions should be directed to David Kaplan ( kaplan@uwm.edu) and Mansi Kasliwal ( mansi@astro.caltech.edu).

-- David Kaplan - 2023-12-22

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