The Zwicky Transient Facility: Data Processing, Products, and Archive

Understand

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new robotic time-domain survey currently in progress using the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt Telescope.

• ZTF uses a 47 square degree field with a 600 megapixel camera to scan the entire northern visible sky at rates of ~3760 square degrees/hour to median depths of g ~ 20.8 and r ~ 20.6 mag (AB, 5sigma in 30 sec).
• We describe the Science Data System that is housed at IPAC, Caltech.
• This comprises the data-processing pipelines, alert production system, data archive, and user interfaces for accessing and analyzing the products.