Exploring the Optical Transient Sky with the Palomar Transient Factory

The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is a wide-field experiment designed to investigate the optical transient and variable sky on time scales from minutes to years. PTF uses the CFH12k mosaic camera, with a field of view of 7.9 deg^2 and a plate scale of 1 asec/pixel, mounted on the the Palomar Obser...

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Main Authors: Rau, A, Kulkarni, SR, Law, N, Bloom, J, Ciardi, D, Djorgovski, G, Fox, D, Gal-Yam, A, Grillmair, C, Kasliwal, M, Nugent, P, Ofek, E, Quimby, R, Reach, W, Shara, M, Bildsten, L, Cenko, S, Drake, A, Filippenko, A, Helfand, D, Helou, G, Howell, D, Poznanski, D, Sullivan, M
Format: Journal article
Published: 2009