Palomar Transient Factory (PTF, obs. code: I41), was an astronomical survey using a wide-field survey camera designed to search for optical transient...
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Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, United States. Commissioned in 2018, it supersedes the (Intermediate) Palomar Transient Factory (2009–2017)...
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Time-domain astronomy (redirect from Transient astronomical event)
Kulkarni (Palomar Transient Factory), Andrzej Udalski (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment). Before the invention of telescopes, transient events that...
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lightcurves, obtained from photometric observations taken at the Palomar Transient Factory and a group of seven observatories, respectively, found a concurring...
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by the POSS Palomar–Leiden survey Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey Palomar Testbed Interferometer Palomar Transient Factory Palomar (comics), a...
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observations by David Polishook and others at the Californian Palomar Transient Factory gave a divergent period of 10 hours with an amplitude of only...
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variation of 0.35 magnitude (U=3). Another lightcurve from the Palomar Transient Factory in November 2010 gave a similar period of 8.790 hours with an...
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lightcurve of Tanya was obtained from photometric observations at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 7...
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obtained from photometric observations by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 438...
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July 1970. SN 2011fe (type Ia, mag. 17.2) was discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory on 24 August 2011. Initially designated PTF 11kly, it reached...
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results between 80.166 and 80.23 hours with an outlier by the Palomar Transient Factory. Elsa has very amplified lightcurve indicating an elongated or...
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respectively (U=2). In January 2014, photometric observations at the Palomar Transient Factory gave a rotation period of 15.156 and 21.33 hours with an amplitude...
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3 m and 4 m. The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) was commissioned in 2018, superseding the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (2009–2017). It is designed...
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photometric observations in the R-band by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 15...
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Palomar Transient Factory, an astronomical survey program Pedotransfer function, a concept used in soil science Phase transfer function, used for the...
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David; et al. (September 2015). "Asteroid Light Curves from the Palomar Transient Factory Survey: Rotation Periods and Phase Functions from Sparse Photometry"...
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named after the CIDA Variability Survey of Orion (CVSO) and the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) and is within the 25 Ori group. CVSO 30 may have one planet...
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12621 Alsufi (category Discoveries by the Palomar–Leiden survey)
asteroid was obtained from photometric observations made at the U.S. Palomar Transient Factory, California, in January 2012. It gave a rotation period of 4.7194±0...
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Observatory, the Uppsala Asteroid Photometric Catalogue, the Palomar Transient Factory and the Catalina Sky Survey gave a similar sidereal period of...
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by the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF), a successor to the earlier Palomar Transient Factory, and based at the Palomar Observatory in California...
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by the APT Observatory Group in Spain, by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in California, and by Czech astronomer Petr Pravec at Ondřejov...
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designated PTF 11kly, was a Type Ia supernova discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) survey on 24 August 2011 during an automated review of images...
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was obtained from photometric observation by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a short rotation period...
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14.330±0.220 and 14.3002±0.0218 hours were derived at the U.S Palomar Transient Factory in 2014 (U=2/2). According to the survey carried out by the NEOWISE...
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4587 Rees (category Discoveries by the Palomar–Leiden Trojan-2 survey)
Czech astronomer Petr Pravec (7.7886 h) and by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory (7.790 h) from April 2003 and October 2012, respectively (U=3/2)...
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of Rozhen were obtained from photometric observations at the Palomar Transient Factory in California, United States. They gave a rotation period of 3...
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of 45.6 hours was derived from photometric observations at the Palomar Transient Factory in September 2011 (U=1) This minor planet was named in honor of...
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10249 Harz (category Discoveries by the Palomar–Leiden survey)
photometric observations in the R-band by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 3...
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after the supernova event on 6 October 2013, by the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory. This is among the earliest supernovae caught after detonation...
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iPTF14hls was discovered in September 2014 by the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory, and it was first made public in November 2014 by the CRTS survey...
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