Simultaneous observations of the northern TESS sectors by the Zwicky Transient Facility. (arXiv:1910.04548v1 [astro-ph.IM])

Simultaneous observations of the northern TESS sectors by the Zwicky Transient Facility. (arXiv:1910.04548v1 [astro-ph.IM])
<a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Roestel_J/0/1/0/all/0/1">Jan van Roestel</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Bellm_E/0/1/0/all/0/1">Eric C. Bellm</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Duev_D/0/1/0/all/0/1">Dmitry A. Duev</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Fremling_C/0/1/0/all/0/1">Christoffer Fremling</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Graham_M/0/1/0/all/0/1">Matthew J. Graham</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Masci_F/0/1/0/all/0/1">Frank Masci</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Yan_L/0/1/0/all/0/1">Lin Yan</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Goldstein_D/0/1/0/all/0/1">Daniel A. Goldstein</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Medford_M/0/1/0/all/0/1">Michael Medford</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Ward_C/0/1/0/all/0/1">Charlotte A. Ward</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Kulkarni_S/0/1/0/all/0/1">S. R. Kulkarni</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Prince_T/0/1/0/all/0/1">Thomas A. Prince</a>

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is conducting a nightly public survey of
all 13 TESS northern sectors in 2019-2020. ZTF will observe the portions of the
current TESS sectors visible from Palomar Observatory each night. Each ZTF
pointing will have one exposure each with $g$ and $r$ filters, totaling two
images per night. ZTF is also making additional nightly $g$- and $r$-band
observations of denser stellar regions (e.g. near the Galactic Plane) to better
facilitate variability studies of Galactic objects. The limiting magnitude of
the ZTF observations is $approx$20.6 and ZTF saturates at magnitude
$approx$13. ZTF will release data from TESS fields in three forms: nightly
alerts distributed by established ZTF brokers, nightly alerts converted to JSON
format are distributed via ZTF’s bucket on Google Cloud as a tarball, and
monthly photometric light curves also distributed via Google Cloud.

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is conducting a nightly public survey of
all 13 TESS northern sectors in 2019-2020. ZTF will observe the portions of the
current TESS sectors visible from Palomar Observatory each night. Each ZTF
pointing will have one exposure each with $g$ and $r$ filters, totaling two
images per night. ZTF is also making additional nightly $g$- and $r$-band
observations of denser stellar regions (e.g. near the Galactic Plane) to better
facilitate variability studies of Galactic objects. The limiting magnitude of
the ZTF observations is $approx$20.6 and ZTF saturates at magnitude
$approx$13. ZTF will release data from TESS fields in three forms: nightly
alerts distributed by established ZTF brokers, nightly alerts converted to JSON
format are distributed via ZTF’s bucket on Google Cloud as a tarball, and
monthly photometric light curves also distributed via Google Cloud.

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