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.

• • 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: