• 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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    Kulkarni (Palomar Transient Factory), Andrzej Udalski (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment). Before the invention of telescopes, transient events that...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Mission discoveries and being the principal investigator of the Palomar Transient Factory Orion Transit Survey and co-discoverer of the first transiting...
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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 3...
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    2005 (U=2). In February 2010, photometric observations at the Palomar Transient Factory gave a period of 5.6204 hours and an amplitude of 0.26 magnitude...
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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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    9999 Wiles (category Discoveries by the Palomar–Leiden Trojan-2 survey)
    were obtained from photometric observations in the R-band at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period of 3...
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