Difference: ZtfExperiments (9 vs. 10)

Revision 102024-11-12 - DavidKaplan

Line: 1 to 1
	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.
Line: 32 to 32
	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.
Added:
> >	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
Line: 41 to 45
	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
Changed:
< <	Future Experiments 2024 May: Bright Transient Survey All BTS sky 1 exposure/night/filter (gr + i if possible) 30s exposures Coordinated with spectroscopic followup
> >	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:

View topic | History: r12 < r11 < r10 < r9 | More topic actions...

Copyright © 2008-2025 by the contributing authors. All material on this collaboration platform is the property of the contributing authors.
Ideas, requests, problems regarding TWiki? Send feedback