Palomar Gattini-IR: Survey overview, data processing system, on-sky performance and first results

Understand

(Abridged) Palomar Gattini-IR is a new wide-field, near-infrared robotic time domain survey operating at Palomar Observatory.

• Using a 30 cm telescope mounted with a H2RG detector, Gattini-IR achieves a field of view of 25 sq.
• deg.
• with a pixel scale of 8.7" in J-band.