Palomar Transient Factory

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Palomar_Transient_Factory
GPTKB entity
Statements (32)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf astronomer
gptkbp:collaboratesWith gptkb:California_Institute_of_Technology
gptkb:Columbia_University
gptkb:Lawrence_Berkeley_National_Laboratory
gptkb:Oxford_University
gptkb:University_of_California,_Berkeley
gptkb:Weizmann_Institute_of_Science
gptkb:University_of_Wisconsin-Milwaukee
gptkb:Infrared_Processing_and_Analysis_Center
gptkb:Harvard-Smithsonian_Center_for_Astrophysics
gptkb:IPAC
gptkb:Las_Cumbres_Observatory_Global_Telescope_Network
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:discoveredBy asteroids
supernovae
variable stars
cataclysmic variables
gptkbp:endDate 2012
gptkbp:fundedBy gptkb:Gordon_and_Betty_Moore_Foundation
gptkb:National_Science_Foundation
gptkbp:hasTelescope gptkb:Samuel_Oschin_Telescope
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Palomar Transient Factory
gptkbp:location gptkb:Palomar_Observatory
gptkbp:principalInvestigator gptkb:Shri_Kulkarni
gptkbp:purpose search for optical transients
gptkbp:releaseDate public
gptkbp:startDate 2009
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Intermediate_Palomar_Transient_Factory
gptkbp:wavelengthRange optical
gptkbp:website https://www.ptf.caltech.edu/
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Palomar_Observatory
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5