TDF: Eric Bellm: The Zwicky Transient Facility

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a next-generation optical time-domain survey that will succeed the Palomar Transient Facility (PTF) on the Oschin 48-inch Schmidt Telescope at Mt. Palomar. ZTF will use a new 47 square-degree camera with faster readout electronics to survey more than an order of magnitude faster than PTF. The science objectives of ZTF's high-cadence, wide-area survey include searches for young supernova, relativistic transients, near-earth asteroids, and electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave detections. I will also describe the public surveys and data products provided by support from the NSF MSIP program.